current work

What She Builds, She Must Destroy, 2024. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches.

Within You Without You, 2025. Oil on canvas. 24 x 30 inches.

The Separation, 2025. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches.

Holding Pattern, 2025. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches.

Monster Camouflage, 2024. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches.

A Thousand Words (But Are We Heard?), 2024. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches.

Sorry Not Sorry About My Brain, 2025. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches.

The Space Between, 2024. Oil on canvas. 24 x 36 inches.

The Moth, 2024. Oil on canvas. Diptych: 36 x 24 inches each.

The Dancer, 2024. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches.

A Bloom Amidst The Chaos, 2025. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches.
between facing mirrors

Monuments, 2023. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches.

Edge of the Familiar, 2023. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches. SOLD

Echoes I, 2023. Oil on linen. 48 x 36 inches.

Echoes II, 2023. Oil on linen. 48 x 36 inches.

Hide and Seek, 2023. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches. SOLD

Siren, 2024. Oil on canvas. 24 x 20 inches. SOLD

Castle of the Divine Feminine, 2023. Oil on canvas. 24 x 20 inches. SOLD

Your Small Hands, 2023. Oil on canvas. 8 x 10 inches. SOLD

Your Small Feet, 2023. Oil on canvas. 8 x 10 inches. SOLD

Peekaboo, 2023. Oil on canvas. 24 x 20 inches. SOLD

Vessel, 2023. Oil on canvas. 24 x 20 inches. SOLD

Like Ships Passing in the Night, 2023. Oil on canvas. 24 x 20 inches. SOLD

Pathways, 2023. Oil on canvas. 16 x 12 inches.

Passage, 2023. Oil on canvas. 16 x 12 inches. SOLD
Between Facing Mirrors
Between Facing Mirrors examines physical and metaphysical space through the lens of motherhood. Resurfacing from the depths of postpartum depression for the second time, Michelle Silver discovers everything about her is illuminated, as if she stands between facing mirrors, seeing multiplicities of herself reflected in her children and exposed to the world around her. As her identity is reconstructed, contradictory elements compete for dominance: mother, artist, duty, desire. An echo of a past life reverberates against the cries of her children. Time stretches forward and bends around her, each moment as tedious as it is tender and fleeting.
Silver uses studio meditation to create the space she lacks both in bodily autonomy and mental capacity. She creates imagined worlds to bear this weight: mysterious landscapes that expand and contract as she skews depth, flattens planes, and layers moments in time. Using only her memory as reference, Silver applies the paint in broad relational stream-of-conscious strokes, where each move is determined by the one before. Heavy layers of paint are added, while other areas are scraped away revealing what’s underneath, a process that documents her inner dialogue.
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Photo: Darya Golubina courtesy of Super Secret Projects gallery.
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Photo: Darya Golubina courtesy of Super Secret Projects gallery.
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Photo: Darya Golubina courtesy of Super Secret Projects gallery.
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Photo: Darya Golubina courtesy of Super Secret Projects gallery.
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Photo: Darya Golubina courtesy of Super Secret Projects gallery.
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You and I, 2023. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches.

Like Those That Came Before, 2023. Oil on canvas. 24 x 20 inches. SOLD

Capricorn Rising, 2023. Oil on linen. 48 x 60 inches.

I Think We're Almost There (A Reminder), 2023. Oil on linen. 48 x 48 inches. SOLD

But You See, Here, She Doesn’t Have To Share, 2023. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. SOLD.

Heavy With Mood, 2023. Oil on canvas. 28 x 34 inches.

Come As You Are, 2022. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches.

Voyage, 2022. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. SOLD

Baby, 2023. Oil on linen. 8 x 10 inches. SOLD
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Gallery view: Dichotomia, a two person show at Distortion Society
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Michelle Silver Capricorn Rising, 2023. Oil on linen. 48 x 60 inches.
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Gallery view: Dichotomia, a two person show at Distortion Society
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Michelle Silver I Think We’re Almost There (A Reminder), 2023. Oil on linen. 48 x 48 inches.
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Left: Michelle Silver Come As You Are, 2022. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches.
Right: Michelle Silver But You See, Here, She Doesn’t Have To Share, 2023. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. -
Michelle Silver Heavy With Mood, 2023. Oil on linen. 28 x 34 inches.
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Michelle Silver Like Those That Came Before, 2023. Oil on canvas.
TRUSTING IN THE UNKNOWN

Bathe In Her Light, 2021. Oil on canvas. 24 x 30 inches. SOLD

Along For The Ride, 2022. Oil on linen. 12 x 16 inches. SOLD

We’ve Been Here Before, 2021. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 inches. SOLD

You Reap What You Sow, 2021. Oil on canvas. 24 x 20 inches. SOLD

Realignment II, 2021. Oil on linen. 11 x 14 inches

Waiting For The Answers To Present Themselves, 2021. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches.

The Mother She Dreamt Of Being, 2021. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches. SOLD

Trusting In The Unknown, 2021. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches.

Altar, 2021. Oil on canvas. 16 x 12 inches.

Holding Me Holding You, 2021. Oil on canvas. 20 x 16 inches. PRIVATE COLLECTION

Looking Out, Looking In, 2021. Oil on canvas. 24 x 18 inches. SOLD

Holding On To A Dream, 2021. Oil on canvas. 18 x 24 inches.