2024 Oct/Nov - Featured Artist - Michelle Dahl

Artist Opening Reception: Oct 12, 2024
Time: 5pm to 8pm
RSVP: www.catalyst926.com/arts
Michelle Dahl (b. 1983) is a life-long Sacramento region artist. After a disabling back injury in 2013, she looked to art as a full-time practice and returned to Sierra Community College, where she graduated with honors with an A.S. in Studio Arts from Rocklin, CA in 2019. Her work has been published in Local editorials such as ShoutoutLA and MoosicEntertainment, as well as the UK’s Aurum Journal. She participated in numerous group exhibitions including Sac Open Studios, Big Names Little Art, as well as her solo show Incandescent Umbra. She served as Board member for Willapa Heritage Foundation, was a resident artist at The Art Studios, curator for numerous small galleries, and founded the organization Career Creatives. Michelle also teaches oil painting and drawing skills through regular workshops throughout the Sacramento region.
In this series, I challenged myself to subvert the idea of mass-produced art that would grace banal spaces and infiltrate the genre with pieces that may seem like bland consumer art but conceal a sense of my own artistic vision. To further the idea of hiding something unique under the cover of mass production I repurposed cardboard, goldleaf, and plaster with acrylics and oils to create my own artistic Trojan Horse.