Maggie Michael: Roots Chords, Earth To SKy

Maggie Michael
Root Chords, Birth Light (Birthing Light), 2024
Acrylic, oil, spray paint on canvas
60 x 112 in (152.4 x 284.5 cm)

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to announce Maggie Michael: Root Chords, Earth to Sky, the artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery and on the West Coast. The exhibition will be presented in Gallery 1, preview begins January 7 and the exhibition runs from January 11 through February 22, 2025. The artist reception will be held February 1, 4 pm - 7 pm.

Maggie Michael’s paintings can be ferocious and muscular. They can also be seductive and dreamlike. Considered one of Washington, D.C.’s leading painters, Michael's lyrical works are a powerful reminder of the transformative potential of abstraction. Her paintings unfold as a series of capricious moments, processes, and forms, evoking the history and energy of American abstract expressionism. Her paintings grapple with humanity and nature's profound duality—our capacity to both sustain and destroy—yet, she also prioritizes painterly strategy, using form as a vehicle to convey material content. Michael’s works flow like sequences, a confluence of the visual vocabulary she has developed over her 25-year career.