Artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan On Painting, Identity and the Search for Liberation

There is something profoundly intimate yet universal in the way Michaela Yearwood-Dan channels her inner world into magmatically luminous canvases. Her abstract compositions come to life as emotional fields, with sweeping, shifting passages of color and flickering, animated brushstrokes evoking landscapes of lush floral life. Small objects—ceramic petals, glass beads, glitter, gold leaf, paper scraps and neatly tied ribbons—adorn the surfaces like deposits of feeling. Lines and fragments of poetry sit lyrically alongside other memorial and symbolic elements, enriching each work’s texture. Walking through “A Woman of Will,” her new show at Boesky Gallery, Yearwood-Dan explains that this diaristic approach animates her entire practice.

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