I am
a mover, a mother, a maker, a seeker.
about
Michelle Kohler is a multidisciplinary artist working in Washington, DC. Using the constraints of domesticity, her work exists between the intersection of art and everyday life.
Through text, installation, and performance, she contemplates the distance between the numinous and the mundane, self and other. Inspired by 17th Century tantric meditation paintings, Michelle began this work by transcribing sacred texts onto antique book pages. Practicing the ideals set out in texts, she seeks boredom and discomfort as opportunities for inquiry and transformation.
Michelle is a certified Yoga Therapist, and iRest® Yoga Nidra teacher. She has an MPS in UX Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art, a MAT Art from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and a BA in Art and Art History from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Michelle lives with her husband, Jeff, and daughter, Birdie, who is autistic. She hiked 1,000 miles on the Continental Divide Trail, and is the 2011 recipient of the Wrangell Mountain Tall Tales Award.
Artist statement
Through art I order my attention. Using language as a midpoint between the body and experience, my work objectifies and contemplates the ideals of nondualism. In a vigilant effort to remain awake, I give shape to what I know, so that it may be made real.