Michele Waalkes ♥ mmwaalkes@hotmail.com ♥ 330.313.0556 ♥ www.michelewaalkes.blogspot.com
P R O F E S S I O N A L
MEDIA
Fibers and mixed media.
WORK AVAILABLE
Work is available for viewing and for purchase online at www.michelewaalkes.blogspot.com.
Her work is also available:
2nd April Galerie, Canton, Ohio | May 29 – Sept. 18, 2009
Anderson Creative, Canton, Ohio | June 2009
Malone University, Canton, Ohio | Aug. 31 – Oct. 5, 2009
The Little Art Gallery, North Canton, Ohio | Oct. 17 – Nov. 15, 2009
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Michele Waalkes would assert that her most significant artistic growth has occurred primarily in midlife: a contemplative period where her life experiences and creativity have collided. Art has become a meaningful way for her to process and explore the complexities of life in tandem with living it.
She earned her B.A. in art in 2007 from Malone University, with emphases in fibers and graphics. Living in Canton, Ohio, with her husband and three children, she is currently the curator at 2nd April galerie. In addition to curating, she is committed to creating and exhibiting her own artwork, which has been exhibited in various regional and national venues including The Little Art Gallery, North Canton, Ohio, Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio, Kent State University Stark, Gallery 6000, North Canton, Ohio, Malone University, Canton, Ohio, Sixth Street Gallery, Vancouver, Wash., and The Washington Gallery of Photography, Bethesda, Maryland. Most recently, she was commissioned to create a large diptych for Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio.
Her work fuses her love of photography, graphics, and fibers into conceptual pieces that utilize her own photography, with a variety of different methods to transfer her images onto both sheer and opaque fabrics. The images on fabric are then layered to create intriguing juxtapositions with visual and conceptual depth. Recurring themes in her work include the transience of life in time, as well as the feelings evoked by diverse natural, cultural, and architectural spaces. Currently, her work can be seen at 2nd April galerie and Anderson Creative. She also has an upcoming group show at the McFadden Gallery at Malone University from Aug. 31- Oct. 5, 2009 and a two person show at The Little Art Gallery, opening Oct. 17- Nov. 15, 2009. Additional works can also be viewed online at: www.michelewaalkes.blogspot.com.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a tactile person. This is probably why my photography usually ends up undergoing some kind of photo transfer process onto fabric. Not only do I love the feel of fabric, but I also love the possibilities it offers. To me, fabric almost begs to be manipulated by pulling, stretching, painting or drawing on, stitching, and/or layering it into something more enriched and intriguing than its humble beginning. My current work attempts to push the scope and scale of what I can do dimensionally and conceptually with fibers.
ARTIST PORTFOLIO
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- Drawn
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- Indecisive
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- Parallel
