Monochromatic white, black and gray digital illustration of a black cat on stone railing of castle in the the light of a midnight full moon. 

She Rules Her Kingdom by the Light of the Moon

An abstract image of vibrant colors: reds, oranges, yellow and lime green

And then: one

A painting of Black Panther leaping towards the viewer, surrounded by African masks and symbols. 

King

A smiling man in business attire on the phone and pumping arm in an excited manner. 

HAHA.BUSINESS

The image features abstract golden linework on a black background. Covered in line formations of dots and and dashes, a humanoid figure can be seen in the left-center of the image. 

Untitled

Seated Artist

Two daisies in blue and white  with snowflakes falling around them.  Geometric shapes are on the outside of the circular shape.

Winter Daisy

A rigid, linear depiction of the greek mythological figure Antaeus. Made up of green and brown lines on a light green background, Antaeus is shown as a giant whose body is interspersed with tree and plant elements and forms. 

Antaeus

Yakkety Yak

2D digital collage of three images arranged left to right—firework | dandelion | coronavirus molecule—with superimposed captions— "this is a dandelion" | "this is a coronavirus" | "this is a firework" plus the text "ALTERNATIVE FACTS" and "THIS COVID LIFE" in the bottom right corner

this covid life 9 : alternative facts

A young black female protester fighting for equality. 

Youth

A woman stands in front of a red brick wall, her hair/body sprouting into bright green ivy as the background bricks become covered by darker, shadowed ivy.

Grow Up

This abstract image shows hand drawn line art, which has been digitized to add vivid color fills of various shapes, leaving content imagined, open to the interpretation of each individual viewer.

martha 

A collection of colorful characters from Beetlejuice the Musical arranged together. Giant ghostly hands reach into the middle. The composition is reminiscent of an 'I Spy' or 'Where's Waldo' visual game.

It's Showtime!

A wood engraving print of a close-up detailed view of an artichoke flower, showing the flower parts and surrounding leaves.  Black ink on cream paper.

Artichoke

A garden with dark shadows that hide a portrait, a tall building, and the background is a military map.

Garden Scene

This artwork recalls the Rondo Neighborhood of St. Paul in the 1950's, before the construction of I-94 took homes and streets. The children ran to watch the drum and bugle corps and majorettes practice marching for community parades. I remember the Black teenage boys playing Semper Fidelis and the special African influenced dancing strut of the Black majorettes.




Sweet Memory of Rondo

A woodblock print of silhouetted trees against a blue and white winter landscape.

First Snow

Two, young, female witches ,in pretty dresses, sitting are sitting on a wooden carved bench. They are enjoying a tea party inside a tall room with a large window casting light down above them. Candles are burning from candle holders attached to the white and orange stripped walls. A cabinet of books and other magical nick-nacks stand in the corner. Black cats play at the witches feet with balls of yarn. The colors are warm with turquoise, purple, browns, oranges and yellows.

Witches Tea Time

A digital drawing intended to replicate a simple pencil drawing, depicting a man drawn in white over a black background looking into the distance. 

A Ponder

A pink flamingo/unicorn hybrid stands in the water of a bay as the sun sets in the background 

Flaminicorn

Double Rainbow 

Digital illustration of a figure relaxing on a raised platform in a greenhouse among many plants. A large window spanning the wall shows a pink forest and yellow sky outside. They are surrounded by shelves of books, a radio, a fan, a small television, a mug of tea, and other clutter. 

Greenhouse

An ecoprint derived of mixed media: plants from my garden as well as vinyl poppy stencil steamed in a vat with fabric dyes, creates an interesting conversation.

Baptisia meets Poppy

Circular. Metallic gold stars and moon shine through a green circular overlay. Re-rendering of the Neebra Sky Disk, a calendar object dating from ancient times. 

Nebra Sky Disk

A woman holds a match close to her chest.  She is lit up red in a burning light.  Behind her, arms of blue are in the midst of placing a golden crown on her head while bmouaright blue butterfly wings contrast the blazing fire that surrounds the girl.  The blue plants around her begin to burn.

Ignited

Two white clouds adjacent to one another against a dark blue sky. There is a light leak that runs along the top portion of the image, it is a bright cyan color. There is a pearlescent quality to the image.

Cloud iii

An Illustration of a young woman and her rabbit napping in a large rounded leaf, golden green with the afternoon sun.  

A Nap in Faye's Garden with Rabbit

A black and white linocut print of a simplified house with deer legs, appearing to swiftly move to the right and trailing smoke.  The print is in a black wooden frame.

On to the Next Thing

A digital painting of a pair of multicolored hands, broken into pieces, floating against a background of stars, bolts, and shards. 

Should We Crush His Sweet Hands?

A drypoint print of a nude person standing in front of a mirror, holding a cellphone. The figure is sharp and angular, wearing an expression of detachment. To the right of the figure is the word "he". The ink is dark blue on creme colored paper.

She Rules Her Kingdom by the Light of the Moon, 2018

RoGina J. Michaud