If only Monet’s paintbrush lived in my camera lens
My artistic style has been strongly influenced by painters. In my mind’s eye, I paint with my camera. My photos have a style that to me evokes Impressionist and Cubist works. My images often blend the natural world with layered reflections. This style brings the unnoticed into view. Many of my images are intentionally obscure, but have recognizable features of internal search for connection.
Bio
Sue Michlovitz is a visual artist working in photography, book arts/artist books, and mixed media. Exploring abstract forms to create her color photographs, her art shows scenes that may go unnoticed by others. Michlovitz is also a physical therapist (hand specialist), was a university professor, and a textbook author/editor. Her clinical practice, medical mission and community outreach volunteerism in Guatemala and on the Navajo Nation required astute observation skills of movement patterns and interpersonal interactions, skills that feed and influence her artistic expression.
Michlovitz’s photographs have been shown at the State of the Art Gallery (Ithaca, NY), Camden Public Library (Camden, ME), Arts in the Barn at Cushing Historical Society (Cushing, ME), Cove Street Arts (Portland, ME), Photoville 2022 & 2023 (Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA), Maine Jewish Museum, (Portland, ME), Rockport Public Library (Rockport, ME), Blue Raven Gallery (Rockland, ME), and The Parsonage Gallery (Searsport, ME). Her books have been displayed at the Michael Good Gallery (Rockport, ME) and the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (Portland, ME). Her handmade book Arts Muse was featured in the Griffin Museum of Photography virtual exhibit in Photography Book Initiative, Fall 2021.
She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) and is a member of the MidCoast Maine Book Arts collective.
Michlovitz earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Media Arts at Maine Media College, Rockport, ME and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Orthopedic Physical Therapy at MCP-Hahnemann University (now Drexel University), Philadelphia, PA. She lives in Camden, ME.