Classical technique, contemporary things. Still lifes that tell a story.
Pairing classical technique with contemporary subject matter, she explores the narrative qualities of still life: a mother’s coat, an aunt’s baby dress, a brass hare keeping watch.
Garments on hangers, painted like portraits. Each one belongs to someone, and each one carries their story.
Brass rabbits, porcelain hares and a certain doughy orator, lit from the side and treated with old-master seriousness.
One object, one sitting. Fruit, candies and clouds from her 365 Days of Painting and 182 Days of Painting projects, hung in spectrum order. Tap a color to jump.
Portrait studies, most from 2019’s 365 Days of Painting, plus a few very good dogs. Grouped by color, from rose to gray.
November 2025: thirty days, thirty sketch studies after Van Gogh, Degas, Cassatt, Sargent, Holsøe and Pushman. The dark days are the ones shown here.
Close-ups of new paintings in progress. Follow along on Instagram for the latest.
@michelehoganartCoffee-shop strangers, bus passengers, sleeping dogs and, yes, more rabbits. Flip through ten years of quick pencil and ink studies.
An oil painter in Austin, Texas, pairing classical technique with contemporary subject matter.
She attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York. She began university at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, then returned to Texas to earn her BA in Studio Art at the University of Texas at Austin.
She has worked in many media and now paints in oil. From 2018 to 2023 she trained at Atelier Dojo in Austin.