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Michelle Soslau 
​Fine Art

https://michellesoslau.artspan.com/


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    Seated Bag Lady 
​20x16   

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 Bring Him Home
   20x16     

Michelle Soslau's career as a visual artist and art education included an extensive exhibition record and faculty positions with museum, college and community programs. To date, Ms Soslau has had ten solo exhibitions in the Philadelphia/Central New Jersey area including the Ellarslie Museum, Trenton, NJ, the Cerulean Gallery in Philadelphia and the highly respected Artist House, a Philadelphia gallery known for featuring graduates of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) from where Ms Soslau holds an M.F.A. Her work has been included in over twenty juried exhibitions and reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Princeton Weekly Newspaper, and Packet on Line, also out of Princeton.

​Aside from her inclusion of her work in private collections along the East coast of the United States, Soslau's work is also included in the corporate collections of the Bell Atlantic Telephone Company and the Safeguard Corporation in Wayne Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Print Collection. Ms Soslau served on the faculty of the Guggenheim Museum's Learning Through Art Program, Women's Studio Workshop in New York, La Salle University, Holy Family College and the Philadelphia Cultural Program. In addition to earning her M.F.A. from PAFA, Michelle studied for several years at the Barnes Foundation courtesy of the Violet de Mazia Trust and earned a B.F.A from Arcadia University and an M.S. in Education at the NY State University at Brockport.

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   Cat Walk    
36x24


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Lady at the Louvre
​48x36

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 Lady During Covid 
16x12

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 Lady and Helper 
 12x14

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 Lady with Cat and Crows 
​11x14

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  Lady on the Beach
 20x16

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Lady Looking at Rothko
14x11

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 Lady Clearing Out the  White House
14x11

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Lady and de Kooning 
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Solo Exhibitions

2026    Plastic Club, Camac Street, Philadelphia, PA
2017   Cerulean Gallery , Philadelphia PA September
2014   Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Fall
2011   Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia PA May
2008   Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia PA July - August
2006   Pagus Gallery, Norristown, PA 
2004   Pagus Gallery, Norristown, PA New Works on Paper
2000   Artist’s  House,  Phila. PA 
2000   Multiple Choice Gallery, Montgomery County Community College, PA
1999   Ellarslie Museum, Trenton Artists Workshop, Trenton, NJ
1993   Skippack Gallery of Contemporary Art, Skippack, PA 


Selected Juried Exhibitions
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2023-2026   Selected Shows at the Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, New Jersey 
2022    Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, New Jersey, Paperwork Show
2022    Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, New Jersey, Juried Show 
2021    The Plastic Club, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
2021     629 Gallery, Atlantic City New Jersey, Small Works 
2021     The Davis Art Center, Ft Myers, Florida  Partners in Painting
2020    Abington Art Center Juried Show, Abington, PA
2019    McLean Project for Arts, "Strictly Painting", McLean VA
2019    FAME, PAFA Juried Alumni Show, Hot Bed Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018    Pushing 40, Trenton Art Museum, Trenton, NJ
2017    Ocean County Artists, Toms River, NJ
2015    Bucks County Community College 50 Anniversary Alumni Invitational
2013    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Alumni "12x12" Exhibition
2009    Artists House, Philadelphia, PA
2009    Gallery 125, Trenton New Jersey
2008    Trenton City Museum, Trenton New Jersey April -June

2008    Gallery 125, Trenton, New Jersey
2007    Alumni Artworks Exhibition, Trenton New Jersey  
2007    Dangerous Women Two, Mercer County Community College, New Jersey 
2007    Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey 
2007    Artworks, Trenton New Jersey 
2006    Gallery 125, Trenton New Jersey
2006    Gallery 125, Trenton New Jersey
2005    Gallery 125, Trenton, New Jersey
2005    Trenton City Museum, The Best of Mercer County
2005    Gallery 125, Trenton, New Jersey

2004    Mercer County Community College, Portrait Exhibition, New Jersey
2004    Gallery 125, Trenton, New Jersey
2003    "Break the Blackout", Kensington Rights Welfare Union, The Rotunda, University of Pennsylvania
2002    New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts International Juried Exhibition, Summit, New Jersey
2001    Work on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Morristown, New Jersey
2000    Boxes Inside Out-A View in Trenton, Collaboration at Artworks, Trenton, NJ

 Education

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts in Painting
Drawing Workshops with Timothy Hawkesworth, Norristown Arts Building, Norristown, Pennsylvania
Barnes Foundation Seminars with Barton Church and Fredrick Osbourn (courtesy of the V. De Mazia Trust)
Arcadia University (Formerly Beaver College), Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
New York State University at Brockport, Masters of Science in Education, and Bachelor of Science in Education

Picture
 Lady Looking at Turner 
​16x12

Michelle Soslau 
​Fine Art


https://michellesoslau.artspan.com/

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