Michelle Guerra (Mdgstudios.com) is a portrait and figure artist working primarily in pastel and oil. As a portrait artist, most of her work is commissioned by private collectors. She has exhibited in several juried art shows in New York and Connectict.

Michelle is endlessly fascinated by faces of all kinds. She is obsessed in her pursuit to capture the nuances of human personality and emotion in her paintings. As an African-American artist she strives to showcase portraits of those whose color, gender or ability are typically underrepresented in this genre.