michelle uckotter

interview by BOBBI SALVÖR MENUEZ

portraits by ANGALIS FIELD

 

Based in New York, the young American painter and filmmaker works with oil sticks and her own film stills, channeling the energetic act of painting to bridge psychological reality with a hidden, obscure realm.

 

BOBBI SALVÖR MENUEZ — I’m curious about what you love about painting, particularly in relation to a dominant digital landscape.

MICHELLE UCKOTTER — I’ve always been painting. When I was in high school, I was really into Robert Rauschenberg and assemblage, making paintings out of found materials with a sculptural element to them. I feel that’s always been a core mode of expression for me — combining disparate odds and ends to make a whole. And when I was in school, I trained in oil painting and did a lot of collage. When I graduated I was living in Baltimore, where there are…