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Summer Market
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Abuela
Oil Original
Oil Original
Recent Events
February 2008 First Friday: “Color Me Red”
Join us Friday, February 1st from 5 to 7pm for “Color Me Red”, a multi-media group show exploring the power of the color red.
Preview the Red Show
(Come to the gallery to see more!)
Preview the Red Show
(Come to the gallery to see more!)
Small Works November 2007
Visit the gallery to view our selection of small original artworks by a number of Artique artists. These petite paintings come in a variety of media, at affordable prices - A great gift idea! On display from November 17th through December 5th.
Biography
Michele Usibelli resides in the quiet enclave of Woodway, Washington, located north of Seattle, in the waterfront city of Edmonds. Born and raised in Seattle, Michele’s artistic interests blossomed early in childhood, and took a more structured path as a graduate of the University of Washington School of Architecture. After practicing architecture for several years the desire to travel led her to pursue opportunities in the tourism marketing industry in Washington, Utah, Arizona, and Alaska.
After meeting her husband in Alaska and returning to Washington, Michele chose to once again pursue her artistic calling, and draw upon her extensive travels and life experiences as the basis of her work. As the mother of three young children, avid gardener and cook, Michele finds personal fulfillment in her richly colored paintings. Michele paints in her Woodway studio, often with a close group of fellow women painters, and during workshops, painting trips, or ’en plein air’.
Michele works primarily in oils, with a flavor of impressionism in her representational art style. Her early training established a strong foundation in the Russian Impressionist tradition of seeing and painting shapes of light and color using relatively loose brush strokes. Several of Michele’s instructors trained under the noted Russian painter and instructor Sergei Bongart. Michele’s subsequent studies, with a versatile group of contemporary representational artists, have ranged more significantly in subject matter and style.
Michele has also extensively studied and been influenced by numerous historic artists, most notably, Nicholai Fechin, John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase. Combined, all of these influences have allowed Michele to establish her own unique artistic style and define her as a truly versatile emerging 21st Century American Impressionist. Michele is recognized for her expressive colors and the passionate brushwork she achieves in her portraits, landscapes, still lifes and figurative work.
Michele’s artwork has shown in both group and solo gallery exhibitions, and in numerous regional, national and international juried exhibitions.
View Michele Usibelli’s Website
Michele Usibelli resides in the quiet enclave of Woodway, Washington, located north of Seattle, in the waterfront city of Edmonds. Born and raised in Seattle, Michele’s artistic interests blossomed early in childhood, and took a more structured path as a graduate of the University of Washington School of Architecture. After practicing architecture for several years the desire to travel led her to pursue opportunities in the tourism marketing industry in Washington, Utah, Arizona, and Alaska.
After meeting her husband in Alaska and returning to Washington, Michele chose to once again pursue her artistic calling, and draw upon her extensive travels and life experiences as the basis of her work. As the mother of three young children, avid gardener and cook, Michele finds personal fulfillment in her richly colored paintings. Michele paints in her Woodway studio, often with a close group of fellow women painters, and during workshops, painting trips, or ’en plein air’.
Michele works primarily in oils, with a flavor of impressionism in her representational art style. Her early training established a strong foundation in the Russian Impressionist tradition of seeing and painting shapes of light and color using relatively loose brush strokes. Several of Michele’s instructors trained under the noted Russian painter and instructor Sergei Bongart. Michele’s subsequent studies, with a versatile group of contemporary representational artists, have ranged more significantly in subject matter and style.
Michele has also extensively studied and been influenced by numerous historic artists, most notably, Nicholai Fechin, John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase. Combined, all of these influences have allowed Michele to establish her own unique artistic style and define her as a truly versatile emerging 21st Century American Impressionist. Michele is recognized for her expressive colors and the passionate brushwork she achieves in her portraits, landscapes, still lifes and figurative work.
Michele’s artwork has shown in both group and solo gallery exhibitions, and in numerous regional, national and international juried exhibitions.
View Michele Usibelli’s Website