michelle maroon

Michelle Maroon is an American artist working between drawing and sculpture. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in 2011. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and collected privately across the United States and Canada, and has appeared in The Boston Globe, Artscope Magazine, and Curatory Magazine.

I am constantly chasing the line.

Drawing and sculpture are two ways of pursuing the same thing. Whether a line moves across paper or extends into space, I am searching for the moment when it begins to exceed my intentions. Each work starts as an attempt to follow a line further—to discover where it wants to go and what it might become.

My drawings are built through the accumulation of marks. Lines gather, repeat, tangle, and drift across the surface, creating forms that hover between language and image. I return to the same gestures again and again, not to perfect them, but to understand them. The line becomes a record of movement, attention, and time.

My sculptures extend this pursuit into three dimensions. Using a 3D printing pen, I draw directly into space, allowing line to leave the page and occupy the physical world. The sculptures are not separate from the drawings; they are the same investigation continued through different means. What begins as a mark can become an object. What appears contained on paper can unfold into volume, shadow, and structure.

I am interested in the space between control and surrender. I do not approach the work with a fixed image to reproduce. Instead, I follow the line and allow it to reveal possibilities I could not have planned. The process is less about constructing a form than discovering one through sustained attention.

Over time, the line has become a language I cannot fully read. It carries memory, instinct, repetition, and habit. It reveals patterns that feel both familiar and unknown. Every drawing and sculpture is an attempt to get closer to understanding that language, even while knowing it will remain partially out of reach.

The work is not about arriving at an answer. It is about remaining in pursuit. The line is always moving ahead of me, and I continue to follow.

b. 1989 New Britain, Connecticut.

EDUCATION

2011 Massachusetts College of Art and Design BFA 3D: Sculpture 2011

EXHIBITION HISTORY

2025 Women Who Draw Mari Art Collective

Artists On Fire Krikorian Gallery, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA

2021 Winter Works Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

Holiday Small Works Cambridge Art Association Speedway Gallery, Brighton, MA

Nor’Easterly Katzman Contemporary Projects, Dover, NH

Coded Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA

Whistling In the Dark Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA

Variance I Like Your Work Podcast Online & Print Catalog Exhibition

2021 Emerging Artists Exhibition Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

National Open Juried Exhibition Maxwell Mays Gallery, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

Women in Abstraction New Art Center, Newton, MA

2019 Michelle Maroon in the Vault Gallery 4, Rockland, MA

Norfolk Annual Juried Art Show Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, MA

2018 Free Form Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

2017 28th Annual Benefit Auction Bakalar & Paine Galleries at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2016 Conception Art Show M1-5 Lounge, New York, NY

2015 Pink Noise feat. Bathaus, Future Visions & Michelle Maroon Milkyway, Boston, MA

Summer Art Show Cuisine En Locale, Somerville, MA

2013 The Hundreds Show Lincoln Arts Project, Waltham, MA

LAP Studios Group Show Lincoln Arts Project, Waltham, MA

2012 Can You Hear Me Now? Stone Crop Gallery, York, ME

2011 Sculpture Senior Thesis Show Yes, Oui, Si, Boston, MA

MassArt Senior Show Bakalar & Paine Galleries at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

MassArt Juried All School Show Arnheim Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2010 MassArt Juried All School Show Arnheim Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2009 MassArt Juried All School Show Arnheim Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

“Volume 14” Curatory Magazine. Pages 113-118. 2025.

“RE-EMERGING TOGETHER: ARTISTS, AUDIENCE REUNITES AT CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION” Artscope Magazine. June 30, 2021.

"My Instagram: Michelle Maroon" The Boston Globe. August 18, 2018. Page B-3.