[11][12] "Michael paints in series, such as the recent “Perfect X,” that are characterized more by visual motifs than different techniques.
Nearly all of her pictures contrast hard-edged shapes, sometimes stenciled, with looser gestures, and employ a variety of pigments, including ink, acrylic, latex and spray paint.
These liquids and more flow through the American University Museum's “A Phrase Hung in Midair as If Frozen,” which surveys Michael's output since 2002, the year she earned an MFA at AU.
She uses single-color pools of latex paint were poured onto panels, then shaped into near-identical blobs.
The Washington Post calls her work, "playful yet spartan, with an austerity not evident in the other pictures, even quiet recent ones".