Painting Artwork - Michelle Lisa Herman

Invisible Cities, Series

"Invisible Cities" Painting Series by Michelle Lisa Herman, "Invisible City #1"

2024
Algorithmically generated source image, oil painted on panel using late 16th century painting techniques
8″ x 8″

Untitled (Ideal City) #2

2023
Algorithmically generated source image, oil painted on linen using late 16th century painting techniques
24″ x 49″

Untitled (The Treachery of Images), Series

Untitled (The Treachery of Images) #1 by Michelle Lisa Herman

2018
Acrylic on canvas
40″ x 30″

Michelle Lisa Herman is a Washington, DC-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans theoretical and philosophical research, feminist and disability politics, comedy, and conceptualism. Herman has shown internationally in both group and solo exhibitions at locations such as the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Cinéma du Foyer Saint-François (Bourges, France), the Corcoran (Washington, DC), The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Goggleworks (Reading, PA), Hillyer Art Space (Washington, DC), Arlington Art Center (Arlington, VA), Visarts (Rockville, MD), and the Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC). Herman’s work has been written about and featured in Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, The Washington Post, NPR, and East City Arts. Herman is an alumna of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MFA, 2020) and the Sparkplug artist collective sponsored by the DC Arts Center.