BLACK HOUND SERIES
In the Black Hound Series, a sequence of works, Michelle Solomon employs the hound as a vessel through which interior states are embodied—a site of quiet reckoning associated with shadowed periods of experience.
Rendered in oil on rounded wood panels, the works are structured through a restrained orchestration of shadow and light, allowing luminosity to emerge selectively from dense fields of darkness.
Across Exposure, Burden, and Surrender, the series traces a progression of interior states—from confrontation, to weight, to release — suggesting vulnerability as a presence held under pressure.
Burden, 2025
Oil on wood panel
25 × 25 × 0.4 cm
Exposure, 2025
Oil on wood panel
25 × 25 × 0.4 cm
Performance, 2025
Oil on wood panel
25 × 25 × 0.4 cm
Surrender, 2025
Oil on wood panel
25 × 25 × 0.4 cm
Residual, 2026
Ink, bleach and charcoal on paper
73 x 92 cm 
Residual considers a figure in suspension, where agency recedes and presence endures. The work considers exhaustion and aftermath as conditions held in quiet tension. Through tonal compression, vulnerability, and stillness accrue psychological weight.
Created after the Black Hound Series, Residual marks a turn toward lightness — a small, necessary exhale, laced with the dry humour that runs through the rest of my practice.