The structure and unfolding of time-based works, such as watching a film or reading a novel, is influencing the way I interpret my paintings and develop an undercurrent of narrative, emotional structure. Many of my paintings are like editing a dialogue and interpreting a world of information. There are references to art, wars, relationships, philosophy and the kinds of roles we enact, both private and public.

Maggie Michael lives and works in Washington, D.C. Michael is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant and an Artist Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She was a resident artist in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardern’s Artist at Work program in 2006-2007. During 2008, Michael was awarded an Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian and received the Trawick Prize from the Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards. Her work has been featured in At Length magazine and reviewed n The Washington Post, Art Papers, and Art in America. Michael’s work is in international private and public collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the US Art in Embassies Program.