Michelle Antonorsi (b. 1995, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Los Angeles–based contemporary painter working in oil. Raised in San Diego, Antonorsi’s practice centers on the body as a site of transformation and desire. She is best known for her intimately framed bodily scenes rendered in fleshy, glistening colors, where close-up encounters with skin, cosmetic instruments, and beauty procedures give shape to a nuanced visual language of bodily modification.
Antonorsi’s work examines fragments of the body mid‑transformation, depicting moments in beauty rituals that blur the line between indulgence, devotion, and the absurd. Drawing on the visual language of product photography, telenovela melodrama, and religious iconography, her paintings render skin as luminous, elastic, and emotionally charged—a site of both personal mythology and collective delusion. Through her intensely cropped compositions, Antonorsi suspends the body between pleasure and violence, glamour and grotesque, inviting reflection on the cultural imperatives that shape the pursuit of ever‑shifting standards of beauty.
Antonorsi’s work examines fragments of the body mid‑transformation, depicting moments in beauty rituals that blur the line between indulgence, devotion, and the absurd. Drawing on the visual language of product photography, telenovela melodrama, and religious iconography, her paintings render skin as luminous, elastic, and emotionally charged—a site of both personal mythology and collective delusion. Through her intensely cropped compositions, Antonorsi suspends the body between pleasure and violence, glamour and grotesque, inviting reflection on the cultural imperatives that shape the pursuit of ever‑shifting standards of beauty.