Brooklyn-based artist Michelle Hinebrook's recent body of work gets into your head—both organically and mathematically. By that I mean it forces you to consider how viewing human biological imagery makes you feel while you contemplate the rigid nature of architecture and artificial structure.

How so? Michelle uses digital imaging and scanning technology as well as traditional painting techniques within her pieces. She effectively combines hard geometry with a soft palette of rubbery flesh and earth tones as well as hotter, almost blown glass feeling hues and textures. Her work brings to mind both the familial, if somewhat discomforting, workings of flesh, organs, blood and muscle, while simultaneously creating strange arachnid spawning grounds, bizarre microscopic landscapes and strange alien constructs. Each piece has an air of womb-like undulation and breath to it that gives the viewer a sense of comfortable, almost mesmeric immersion.

Gallerist Michael Foley gave Michelle her first New York solo show, "Enveloped," because when he viewed her work, "I felt that I could physically slip in and between her layers of paint, often dozens of fine, misty layers," he explains. "The paintings are a warm invitation to an interior world waiting to be explored."

Check it out yourself before the show comes down January 5th!

Foley Gallery is located at 547 West 27th Street, (212) 244-9081.

- Spyridon P. Panousopoulos

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