Michaele LeCompte

• I received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College in 1980 where I was awarded a Catherine Morgan Trefethen Fellowship;
• I retired from teaching at Sacramento City College in 2016 after 30 years as an Adjunct Professor of Art; 
• My work is represented in many public and private collections, including Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, the City of Sacramento, Sacramento City College Library, Colonial Heights Library, Sierra College, Crocker Art Museum, CSU, Sacramento, among others;
• I have been exhibiting my work steadily since 1980;
• I live and work in the Sacramento Delta

• "...I have to do the wrong thing in the right way."  Greyson Perry

My style favors bold color, strong surfaces, and my own quirky sense of composition.  Each painting demands it's own visual language and materials.  It is through the act of painting itself, that I figure out what I'm trying to accomplish.  There are many unplanned surprises to be uncovered!  Over the course of my long career I have made many paintings, but I am always eager for the next series to emerge. 

As an active artist, I'm also an active viewer.  Ideas for my own work can come from anywhere -- I never know what might inspire me.  Painting is always a pathway to my subconscious, the well-spring of all of my work.  I have always worked abstractly.