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Michel Demanche

Drawing, Multimedia, Photography, Visual / Media

I present several of the images from the series "The Yellow King". The series is a symbolic narrative fantasy about the struggle for power. The struggle appears as a game.

About the Artist

Michel Demanche defines herself as an artist whose work deals with perception, illusion, and memory. In the words of critic and writer, Wade Wilson, she is a storyteller whose work addresses the commonalities of everyday life in her native Texas, Maryland where she currently lives, and indeed in the United States at large. Technically, Michel’s art falls clearly within the style of the North Texas School of art made famous by Robert Rauschenberg. She regularly combines traditional photography, printmaking, painting, drawing and handmade papers in her compositions which are two-dimensional or fully three-dimensional by turn.  Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally garnering many awards such as 1st place in photography at the Florence Biennial.

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Featured Work

Photos

image of abstracted forest with a crow grabbing a women's hat
The 13th of a series of mixed media works on paper based on a narrative fantasy. The Yellow King series addresses current affairs as I see them from 2016 up until 2023. Symbolic references to marginalized individuals along with symbolic reference to political parties all are responding to an imagined King.
Another image of the narrative of the Yellow King, here the symbolic marginalized and political birds struggle to keep the queen (pink pill box hat) with a nest, the symbolic reference to home.
mixed media collage of bones, gourds, birds all associated in a narrative fantasy about the yellow king,
A mixed media work on paper with color pencil, graphite and collage. Depicts the Queen(pink pillbox hat) now at the foot of the King(assembly of bones). Surrounding the King and Queen are the crows and other important symbols.