Michele D’Ermo

Michele D’Ermo is an artist based in the West Village and East Hampton, New York, and divides her time between her two studios.

D’Ermo is a self-taught artist whose education in art was an organic process that grew out of observation and early childhood experiences traveling throughout Europe. Her paintings continue to reflect these early impressions as she records her observations of the natural world. As an adult, she studied at the Art Students League and the New York Academy of Art.

D’Ermo’s work has been exhibited widely in museums, art fairs, and galleries in both New York City and the East End. She has had solo exhibits at the Peter Marcelle Gallery, Monika Olko Gallery, and the 1stdibs Gallery at the New York Design Center. Her work has also been featured in group shows at Silas Marder Gallery, Guild Hall Museum, Lizan Tops Gallery, the Parrish Art Museum, Elisa Contemporary Arts, Salmagundi Club, Cheryl Hazen Gallery, North Haven Gallery, and Scope at Art Basel.

D’Ermo often collaborates with interior designers and architects on special projects and commissions, and her work is included in many private and public collections.

“My paintings hover on the edge of abstraction and are more remembered as sensations than direct observations of nature.”

She strives to create poetic environments through the use of organic shapes and saturated surfaces, establishing vistas with minimal imagery. The reduction of detail and unoccupied space on the canvas brings the imagery closer to the viewer, pulling them in through color, form, and scale. Her landscapes can be seen as architecture, in which exterior spaces are read more as interiors.