Michaelsen’s Art Work Featured at Geneseo Library

By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current

Sharon Michaelsen, a member of the RutabagA Art Gallery in downtown Geneseo, is the featured artist in November at the Geneseo Public Library. The display features pieces of her art work from a variety of nebulae paintings, representing actual images from the Hubble Space Telescope. She explained, “They, of course, are not exact reproductions, just my interpretations of the Labyrinth Nebula, which resembles a blossom, and the Butterfly Nebula, which actually looks like a butterfly.” The angel painting in the exhibit is her interpretation of what the words from the music “Choose Something Like a Star” convey to her, and she added, “I was actually inspired by a figurine I have in my home.” The large burst of color in one of the paintings in the display was "just fun,” she said, “and which to me, represents an exploding star somewhere in the universe.” Photo by Claudia Loucks