Michelle Hinebrook

Lives and works in New York, NY

Artist statement

My paintings investigate subtle energetic bodies and the unseen forces that move through and around us. I am interested in how we construct meaning from what we experience and perceive. We are constantly taking in information and sensory experience, selecting what receives our attention and filtering it through memory, emotion, sensation, dreams, subconscious associations, and our individual patterns of perception. This involves multiple ways of seeing and knowing, including perceptual, intuitive, somatic, symbolic, visionary, and emotional experiences. My paintings are reflections of what I pay attention to and how I respond to moments of beauty, nature, and emotional and sensory experience. As a neurodivergent artist, my perception is shaped by synesthetic, sensory, intuitive, and spiritual experiences. Painting allows me to investigate this way of perceiving and explore what exists beneath the visible. What do we notice, and why? Why do certain images, experiences, places, or moments move us? How do intuition and the subconscious shape what we see? What does our attention reveal about how we understand the world and ourselves? I think of my paintings as psychological landscapes: interior spaces where memory, dreams, sensation, emotion, environment, and imagination interact and flow together. Each painting is an accumulation and synthesis of observation, memory, sensation, emotion, symbolic imagery, spiritual perception, and the physical process of painting. My imagery...

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