Micheline Klagsbrun has studied in Paris with Alfredo Echeverria and at the Corcoran with Bill Newman. She has exhibited widely, and is in private collections nationally as well as in Europe and the Middle East. Recent solo and group exhibits in Washington DC, include Studio Gallery, Exhibit9 Gallery, the Embassy of Finland and the Corcoran Gallery of Art; elsewhere, Macy Gallery (New York City), Aswan, Egypt and Delhi, India.

“My work has been described as ‘mythological realism’. It can be called ‘realist’ in the sense that figures and forms are at least partially recognizable. However these forms inhabit a different space and time, a dream-world where the law of gravity is replaced by the laws of the unconscious.

I depict transformations from human to bird, from arm to wing, from male to female, from larva to dragonfly, from dream to knowledge. For years I have immersed myself in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and most of my current pieces take as a starting point Ovid’s story of Ceyx and Alcyone. Through this story I explore moments of transformation itself, moments of chaos when all is in flux and new forms are born. Much of this magic takes place in the ocean, the primal waters from which life first emerged.