October 2012
Michelle Hegyi’s show went up this past weekend at WSG gallery. It looks spectacular. Visitors to the gallery will be met at the door with a collection of work that excites the eye with its use of color, but soothes the soul with its careful balance of line, shape and layering of imagery.
Michelle does what could be described as digital painting. She may make a paint stroke on an actual piece of paper, scan it into her computer and manipulate that paint stroke, changing the color or value levels, use that image in combination with a composition she has created on the computer and then print out the whole piece on Japanese kozo paper. The piece is then painted with a thin layer of encaustic, giving it a rich, translucent effect.
Her work can be framed or unframed, but it is hung with tiny magnets, which allows it to be suspended just a fraction of space from the wall or interior back of the frame. The light allowed to get behind the pieces adds to the translucency.
‘How the Day Changes with the Light’ opens Friday, October 19, 7-9pm at WSG gallery, 306 S. Main in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It will be on exhibit until November 24, 2012.