Michelle Concepcion’s “Visual Meditations” From time to time in their careers, artists achieve a breakthrough, when their work takes a quantum leap onto another level entirely. This visual epiphany occurred some eight years ago when Michelle Concepción’s earlier abstractions, teeming with an energized surface of colorful biomorphic forms, took a more meditative direction with a reduced palette of two or three colors. In his review of an exhibition at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in Coral Gables (Miami), Florida in 2005, critic José Antonio Evora of El Nuevo Herald described Concepción’s paintings as an “indecipherable enigma,” adding that they are “so enveloping that one is able to be submerged in their bubbles.” Her current abstractions, evocative of cellular forms or ancient asteroids, allow color to reemerge in the soft, dreamy shapes that appear to be floating in a bottomless abyss or deep space, visual meditations that invite the mind to wander among them. These abstractions on canvas create an illusion of surface texture with luminous backgrounds enriched by underpainting. I invite you to wander among Concepción’s visual meditations, the extraordinary visions this highly accomplished artist is sharing with us in her first one-person show at this gallery. Virginia Miller Director ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries