Artist Statement
Michele Landel creates patchwork paintings using photography and thread.
Whether draped or flattened, her embroidered bedsheets are about engaging the need and desire to see ourselves in others and the inherent power struggle between the one looking and the one being looked at. She stitches over figures, cut flowers, and domesticated spaces to evoke symbols of power, loss, and memory. Mirroring and shadows are also often repeated to show self-awareness and internal worlds. Drawing on the intimacy associated with embroidery and mending, her artwork references the domestic while also deliberately distancing itself from traditional fiber arts.
Bio
Michele Landel is an American artist who lives and works in Sèvres, France. She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Art History.
Her artwork has been exhibited throughout Europe, the UK, and the US and appears in The Collage Ideas Book (Ilex Press, 2018). She was awarded the 2018 Innovative Technique Award by the Surface Design Association and was a finalist for the Prix Carré-Sur-Seine in 2020. She has held residencies at Joya: AiR in Spain, NG Creative Art Residency in France, and the Centre Pompadour Neofeminist Laboratory in France.
Her artwork is currently available through Galerie Amélie du Chalard and the Ségolène Brossette Galerie in Paris, France, Le Salon Vert Galerie in Geneva, Switzerland, and Donna Seager Fine Arts in Mill Valley, CA.