#Michelle Uckotter

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Michelle Uckotter

Ominously smudged femme forms.

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hiiiiiiii ^^ asking your main this bc my internet was finicky when I sent it to your art account; Do you have any tips for using pastels?

i saw your ask on my art account,I think you mean oil pastels, right? Here's my general tips with them:

This is one of the only art supplies that I genuinely think you need to adjust technique with depending on brand. Some brands will genuinly be nothing like eachother, and this is okay! but it's something to consider if your piece does not look much like someone who uses a different brand. I find that student-grade oil pastels (which are higher in filler) tend to have a thinner application than professional grade, and can 'skip' or feel even dry at times. This isn't really meaning they are worse, but it's considerably different than professional grade, which apply very thickly.

I know that the assumption with oil pastels is that you are 'drawing', but you are firmly 'painting'. I know that's hard to say, but oil pastels in a lot of ways are solid paint that you are smearing onto a surface, so you need to work with them closer towards how you would tend to apply color in a painting.

do not over rely on blending. I know it's tempting to smear the colors together with your finger, but that's generally where things go wrong for me when I work with oil pastels. I reccomend using fingers as little as possible, if you are interested in smearing and blending, qtips work fine, or color shapers are good for precision.

Scraping off color is a good technique, but also can be overused. Be careful with removing too much pigment.

Breaking off little bits and applying with a pallete knife can be really helpful for precision. There is no rule saying you have to apply it one way.

Most importantly: Use paper that can handle it. Nothing thin, nothing too glossy but nothing too textured either. I personally prefer some sort of card or board if possible. I think with a lot of drawing mediums the assumption is to only use paper, but oil pastel works often better on non-absorbent surfaces with a slight grit. The oil can seep and bloom through some papers.

Your painting will 'cure' to some level eventually, but sennelier oil pastel fixitive does indeed work and I reccomend it heavily.

If your work is not fixed, store covered somewhere free of dust until you are able to. Oil pastels attract dust like no other medium i've seen.

You can use an x-acto knife with very gentle pressure to score lines into your paper that the oil pastel will not go into. You can also remove bits of color with it.

Work BIG unless you are doing something that isn't very detailed. yes, you can burn through pastels quick, but it's pretty impossible to work with them super detailed unless you work on a larger scale. be aware of the scope of your painting.

here's a couple artists I admire who use oil pastel as their primary media:

misako flodin

michelle uckotter

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Michelle Uckotter

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Michelle Uckotter, Cage girl, 2023, oil pastel on panel, 40 x 30 inches, 101.6 x 76.2 cm

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Michelle Uckotter at Bernheim Gallery

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https://ginnyonfrederick.com/images/civiltwilight/civiltwilight.pdf

Civil Twilight October 22 - November 25 

Guendalina Cerruti Sam Cottington Evangeline Ling Hamish Pearch Gal Schindler Mary Stephenson Michelle Uckotter 

Civil Twilight occurs just after sunset and the moment when the geometric centre of the sun is at 6 degrees below the horizon. 

Caught before the beginning of day and beginning of night, twilight beckons the end. A bewitching intermission before the changing worlds. A palette cleanser for the next act. Twilight is the thin edge of the thaumatrope of time, flickering at speed as memory merges the transitions from day to night. In summer; morning light beckons a flight of song, and evening calls on those who invade, leech and crawl through the darkness. Winter dawn brings thaw, slowly tearing at the frost delivered by night, dusk brings time for cold to once again take hold. Twilight offers an exchange of knowledge for secrets and secrets for knowledge, day exposes and night shrouds. Harmony is found as twilight balances the scales.

 Civil Twilight is the stage curtains for day, still keeping the dreams of night alive. Night offers few answers, and it's mystery compels. Day offers opportunity, to those willing to engage with its tribulations. In the heavens above, Civil Twilight offers daylight a glimpse at theatrics. The fade in and eventual out signalling its presence. Daylight offers calm and new beginning. Night consumes the world stage, emotions are amplified. Night needs no introduction and dusk as it's opening beckons it's intent. 

From the corner of your eye Civil Twilight performs its ritual. The sky's leading star, washes with rich flourishes of reds, pinks, blues, and yellows, the announcement of change is rarely without spectacle. 

 List of Works:

Sam Cottington The Writers Body, 2022 Vinyl Dimensions Variable Hamish Pearch Foraged Sunrise (07:38 22/10/22), Sunset (15:59 25/11/22) and Asteroids, 2022 Steel, aluminium, enamel, paint, epoxy putty, epoxy resin 60cm x 42cm x 12cm 

Gal Schindler Lapses, 2022 Oil on linen 60cm x 70cm 

Mary Stephenson Tight New Shiny Shoe, 2022 Oil on linen 40cm x 55cm 

Evangeline Ling Self-portrait in Bordeaux, 2019 Oil on canvas 60cm x 50cm 

Guendalina Cerruti Merry-Go-Round, 2022 MDF, metal wire, photo transfer on canvas, fabric, glitters, mixed coloured beads 35cm x 170cm 

Michelle Uckotter Friends Embracing, 2022 Oil pastel on panel 12.7cm x 17.78cm

Guendalina Cerruti (b.1992, Milan, Italy) lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, UK and BA from the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Italy. Recent exhibitions include: September Issues, Peres Project, Milan, Italy (2022); People Watching, New Low, Los Angeles, USA (2022); Wasted Dreams, Public Gallery, London, UK (2022); Primary Domain, Ordet, Milan, Italy (2021); Old Friends, New Friends, Collective Ending HQ, London, UK (2021); Studiolo Lounge #1, Studiolo, Milan, Italy (2021); Marigolds, Harlesden High Street, London, UK (2019) and Playful Agressions, Greengrassi, London, UK (2019). 

Sam Cottington (b.1993) lives and works in London, UK. Recent exhibitions and performances include: Blanks, Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK (2022); Pennies From Heaven, London Performance Studios, London, UK (2022); Getting Dressed, V.O Curations, London, UK (2021); Crave, SET Lewisham, London, UK (2021); Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria (2021) and Deadhead Perfora, Yaby, Madrid, Spain (2020).

Evangeline Ling (b.1996) lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MA from Goldsmiths College, London, UK. Recent exhibitions include What is it Like to be a Bat?, ADZ Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (2022). 

Hamish Pearch (b. 1993, London, UK) lives and works in London, UK. He received a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2019. Recent exhibitions include: All season sanctuary, Mendes Wood DM at Retranchement (2022); Happy Birthday, Dear Speed, Quench, Margate, UK (August, 2022); Amygdala Lost and Found, Sans titre, Paris, France (2021); Thames Mud, Front, Brussels, Belgium (2021); Head Above Water, Belsunce Projects/Manifesta 13, Marseille, France (2020) and Nights, Soft Opening, London, UK (2019).

Gal Schindler (b. 1993, Tel Aviv, Israel) lives and works in London, UK. She hold an MA from Royal College of Art. Recent exhibitions include: The Earth has music for people who listen, Sapling, London, UK (2022); Razor Wave, Ginny on Frederick, London, UK (2022); My Reflection of You, The Perimeter, London, UK (2022); Mud Garden, Painters Painting Paintings (2022); Les Danses Nocturnes, East Contemporary, Entrevaux / Cote d'Azur, France (2021); Entropy, Baba Gallery, London, UK (2021); Limb-Loosener, Daisy’s Room Gallery, London, UK (2021); After Image, MAMOTH, London, UK (2020); Onlooking, Kupfer Gallery, London, UK (2020).

Mary Stephenson (b. 1989, London, UK) lives and works in London, UK. She holds an BA from The Glasgow School Of Art and is currently completing her Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London. Recent exhibitions include: Incubator, London (2022); Contrappunto, Vin Vin, Vienna, Austria (2022); Watch The Fire From The Shore, Linseed Projects, Shanghai, China (2021); Fertile Spoon (with Grace Pailthorpe), Bosse & Baum, London (2021) and Paintings On, and, With Paper, Cob Gallery, London (2020).

Michelle Uckotter (b. 1992, Cincinnati, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include Sinkhole Project Is Presenting, Micky, Chicago, USA (2022); heaven above sea below, Lubov, NYC, USA (2022); Electric Affinities, T293 Gallery, Rome, IT (2022); Trap Paintings Vol. 2, King’s Leap, London, UK (2021); Murder Time, Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore, USA (2021); Trap Paintings, A.D. Gallery, NY, USA (2020) and Center of the Core, Deli Gallery, NY, USA (2020)

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Michelle Uckotter at Interstate Projects

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Tablets

Crayon, marker, graphite and xerox print on board

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Michelle Uckotter

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Collaboration with Michelle Uckotter, 2017

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 Curated by Mosie Romney: Aviva Silverman / Astrid Terrazas / Daisy Parris / Devin N Morris / Drake Carr / Marisa Takal / Frieda Toranzo Jaeger / Jesse Morsberger / Mosie Romney / Michelle Uckotter / Willie Jinks / Mose Tolliver /

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The Frog Show W/ Chris Martin, David Gihooly, Eva Beresin, Jesse Sullivan, Alex Bag, F P Boué, Yasmin Kaytmaz, Haim Steinbach, Liz Markus, Karl Haendel, Alex Berns, Jack Laweler, Peter Harkawik, Jessica Butler, Joshua Miller, Kira Scerbin, Dana Wood Zinsser, Keith Boadwee, Michelle Uckotter, Joe Speier, Zoe Argires, Justine Neuberger, Jan Gatewood, Susan Classen Sullivan, Mike Linskie, Mimi Park, Andrew Ross, Kenny Schachter, Daniel Boccato Organised by #ReillyDavidson At #Real Pain, #NewYork, #US August 07 — September 04, 2021 🔗in stories @real___pain @daniel_ferstl @spiralstaircase1 @xzoeus @alexbag666 @evaberesin @alex_berns_ @tropicalmilf @bellybelial @susanclassensullivan @jangatewood @karlhaendel @harkawik @yazzzkat @jacklawler6 @mikelinskie @lizmarkusstudio @chrismartin764 @_joshuamiller_ @justineneuberger @puppeteer_mimi @andrewross_info @potatotunesy @kennyschachter @joe_sleepover @jessersullivan @shelleyuckotter @sunpuppie #groupshow #groupexhibition #newyorkexhibitions #nycexhibitions #painting #sculpture #installation #artshow #installation #art #contemporaryart #ofluxo #ofluxoplatform @ofluxoplatform (em New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS1dQynMBOG/?utm_medium=tumblr