Michelle Benoit

Michelle Benoit is based in Rhode Island, and her work consists of layers of hand-cut, reclaimed lucite, appleply wood, and layers of acrylic paint that radiate throughout each of her pieces, creating a translucent color display. Taking an alchemic approach, her work captures isolated moments in time, space and place. She uses transparent lucite and coded color combinations to illustrate the idea and urgency of capturing a moment in time. Benoit’s works meet at the present, while incorporating the past through the history in each found object, and hint at the future with semblance of light conveyed in translucent materials. She views the resulting work as, “a contemporary geologic core sample; a very personal yet collective landscape.”

Courtesy of Margaret Thatcher Projects