"Nature is a constant source of material. My work is imbued with a universal reverence for the spirits and memories contained in physical remains: skulls, bones, bark, snakeskin. From the “writing” of beetles on bark to the impressions of mushrooms onto paper, I make visible the silent messages of the Colorado mountain landscape."
"My work explores transformation, memory, and the impermanence of forms, drawing inspiration from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and personal histories of displacement.
Through Ovid’s timeless stories I illuminate moments of chaos when all is in flux and new forms are born. This work is about the processes of change in all of us. We take a leap, grow wings, escape one life, emerge into a new self.
Working in oils, mixed media, and sculpture, I layer pastel, ink, watercolor, collage, and organic elements to create richly textured works that bridge the natural and the imagined." – Micheline Klagsbrun
Micheline Klagsbrun studied in Paris with Alfredo Echeverria and at the Corcoran with William Newman and Gene Davis. She has exhibited widely, and is in private collections nationally as well as in Europe and the Middle East. Solo and group exhibits in Washington D.C. include the Katzen Museum at American University, Arena Stage, gallery plan b, Studio Gallery, Exhibit9 Gallery, Goldman Gallery, the Embassies of Finland and Venezuela, Smith Center for the Healing Arts, Covington and Burling, Adah Rose Gallery, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art; elsewhere, Macy Gallery (New York City), William Ris Gallery (Cape May NJ), Aswan, Egypt and Delhi, India.
For many years she co-chaired the Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film, edited the journal “Projections” and was a mentor at the Corcoran School of Art.
She is co-founder and President of CrossCurrents Foundation (founded in 2006) which as part of its mission sponsors art to promote social justice and to heighten public engagement with key social issues. She is a Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists (inducted 2023).
