Michelle Paterok - I Woke Up, It Was a Dream

We are pleased to announce that Michelle Paterok will be the featured artist of the July Carrot Gallery. Paterok’s recent work in painting draws upon photographs as a means of tracing memory. These photographs, taken in rural Japan where the artist lived for two years, are used as a starting point for improvisation, allowing for abstraction and reinterpretation of the images. Through altering the original images, the artist aims to give an ephemeral experience a kind of permanence, reconfiguring these snapshots to reflect how the original place may be experienced and subsequently remembered.

Learn more about Michelle Paterok’s works here.