Stella Michaels is a New York City artist who has been described as a channel of the past traveling on a highway to the future. She can be called a primitive, working outside of ‘the box’ using enamels, acrylics, radiator paint, gold leaf, etc., and applying these mediums with tools as stark as sticks and as basic as her hands.  Her work has been likened to Pollack, Miro, Kandinsky, and Rothko, flowing with energy, rhythm and texture; and to the art of East Asian painters, with an abundance of rich color and delicate detail. Her pieces are rarely predetermined; the blank surfaces, colors and tools are spontaneously meditated upon.  Then she creates the visual as a cliff note to the reckless, yet ultimately choreographed dance that gives life to the raw canvas.