About Samantha Michell

Samantha Michell’s pieces have evolved in style, from highly detailed line drawings that entwine complex narratives, to more abstract lines with the figure as a common thread. Her most recent works reflects the artist’s continued fascination with time, and an exploration of the somatosensory system through color. She explores the body as a moving image; in relationship with the physical plane and with itself. The moving image as subject, combined with a lifelong interest in line, mark making and the psychological effects of color, opens up a process that is at once calculated and spontaneous, and repetitive and singular.

Her work is also a conversation with memory, as it is stored in and outside of the body. These evolving forms question our often-clouded perception of time and how our corporeal connection with our surroundings is also an extension of the soul.

(Chicago, 1989) Samantha creative upbringing was shaped by the exposure of moving between Mexico and New York. She has studied in the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Escuela de Artes Visuales de Yucatan as well as the Manhattan graphic center. She currently lives and works in Merida, Mexico