Michelle Anne Muldrow (born 1968) is an American painter known for her colorful compositions featuring the familiar interior landscapes of big-box retail stores.[1] The paintings walk a line between abstraction and reality, depicting, in the artist's words: “…not only the actual structural space and overwhelming chaos of goods, but also the psychology and vernacular of American consumerism.”[2] Muldrow works in gouache, a traditional water-based paint similar to, but more opaque than, watercolor. Her compositions draw on the conventions of traditional landscape painting, utilizing them to focus on non-traditional subjects.[3] Critics have noted that the paintings, whether of a retail interior, a post-industrial landscape, or a reconstructed aerial view of a military base, give the impression that “She’s holding a mirror to... The existence of an era or a generation...”.[4]

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Education

1986-1990 University of Minnesota, Bachelor of Fine Arts

2004 Cooper Union Summer Arts Residency

Awards

2009 Creative Workforce Fellowship Grant, Cuyahoga County, Ohio[5]

Publications

2010 New American Paintings, Midwest Edition

References