Michelle Doll's Paintings

Michelle Doll's intriguing paintings are dedicated to women. She frequently depicted nude or partially dressed ladies in the bedroom and boudoir in her early works, but now, although still reserving the main position for the lady, the majority of the artist's paintings are targeted at depicting the profound relationship between mother and child in moments of calm and quiet. Looking at Michelle's paintings, the observer gets to realize that in such instances, these relationships, sometimes without our will, only become stronger. "I want to expand my consciousness and strive for boundlessness of being through interconnection with others based on my own observations and experiences." This human interconnection enables the formation of collective shared relationships as well as the sharing of one's individual experiences with others. I'm attempting to convey a person's longing for safety and security while also implying a sense of transience and anxiousness." Michelle Doll Says

Michelle Doll was born in Canton, Ohio, and graduated with honors from Kent State University and the New York Academy of Art in 2006. She presently resides and works in Hoboken, New Jersey, where she works as an adjunct professor at New Jersey City University and gives individual classes both in person and online. Michelle has given various seminars in locations such as Rome, Oslo, and New York. She was awarded a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2019. Michelle Doll won a Prince of Wales/Forbes Foundation Travel Grant in 2006, was an Artist in Residence at Eden Rock in St. Bars (French West Indies) in 2008, and got an Honorable Mention for the Bennett Prize in 2018. Her paintings have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Barcelona, Oslo, Salzburg, and Basel, Switzerland, among other places. Michelle Doll's work is in the public collections of HRH The Prince of Wales, the Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation, the Seavest Collection, and the Art Collection, and she was recently represented by Lyons Wear Gallery in Manhattan from 2014 to 2020.