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Thought Notes From My Open Side: Mixed-Media Work by Michelle Firment Reid

Michelle Firment Reid

A multidisciplinary artist, I choose the medium I feel best conveys my concept and intent. I express my emotions as a visual narrative open to interpretation; not at all fixed, but with the desire to impress onto the viewer to have his or her own personal connection and inference. Inspired by nature, personal experience, and science, I am interested in the connection of humankind and nature’s elements.

In my paintings I convey thought through asemic writing, a wordless open form of writing allowing the viewer to hover in a state between reflecting on their own interpretation while simultaneously seeing the work. Throughout my installation and sculpture works I am interested in the emotional and sensual qualities of the materials I use more than I am in their formal qualities. I feel thought and language is a part of the atmosphere around us — released into air and formed into the material world.

I am highly committed to the art process and enjoy taking risks experimenting with a range of mediums and materials. All of my best ideas come out of process, out of the work itself.

Ahh You Ahh Freedom Bliss (detail) - Michelle Firment Reid
Ahh You Ahh Freedom Bliss
Above It All - Michelle Firment Reid
Above It All
Insulated Dreams - Michelle Firment Reid
Insulated Dreams
Love Notes Along The Horizon - Michelle Firment Reid
Love Notes Along The Horizon
The Space In Our Togetherness - Michelle Firment Reid
The Space in Our Togetherness
Where Passion Grows - Michelle Firment Reid
Where Passion Grows
Sun Felt - Michelle Firment Reid
Sun Felt
Release Thought Notes 9 - Michelle Firment Reid
Release Thought Notes 9
Onward - Michelle Firment Reid
Onward
Rhythm of Stillness - Michelle Firment Reid
Rhythm of Stillness
Swarm - Michelle Firment Reid
Swarm
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Michelle Firment Reid

Born in Pennsylvania with a Slovak American heritage, Michelle Firment Reid’s childhood was spent residing in Bucharest, Romania, The Philippines, and Paris, France, returning to the United States to reside to a Virginia suburb skirting Washington, D.C., where she received her BFA at The Corcoran College of Art & Design (1991). Reid resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma and has been working full time as an artist for the past 25 years. She continues to visit Europe, these days Stockholm, Sweden. for inspiration and reflection. MFReidart.com

Author: Michelle Firment Reid Tags: asemic writing, mixed-media Category: Visual Art and Visual Poetry January 17, 2020

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