Excerpt from press release
By Hesse McGraw

Noted for her seductive paintings of geodesic domes and
fantastical forests, Michelle Wasson’s dreamy tableaux coerce
idyllic landscapes and utopian structures onto the same picture
plane. Wasson’s speculative images are gorgeous; yet seethe a
kind of uneasiness due to their impossibility.

Although these “screen-like portals” exemplify the crumbling of the
technocratic utopian vision, by conjoining traditional painting with digital
processes, Wasson provides a novel escape. As she says,
“Linking human and digital memory, this process becomes the
passport to endlessly voyage the continuum between
infinite worlds of serene utopia and eerily ominous rapture.”

Michelle Wasson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. She
received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis,
Missouri in 2001. She has recently taught at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and has had recent solo exhibitions at the
Beverly Arts Center and the Contemporary Art Workshop in
Chicago.