Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Michelle Inez Hinojosa and Barbara Pearsall, collaborative artists whose immersive works blend analogue animation, vibrant abstraction, optical toys, and experimental installation practices into playful and transformative viewing experiences.
Michelle Inez Hinojosa & Barbara Pearsall
Michelle Inez Hinojosa
Barbara Pearsall
Drawn together in graduate school by a shared love of experimentation and play, Michelle Inez Hinojosa and Barbara Pearsall have built a collaborative practice centered on analogue animation, immersive installations, and vibrant abstraction. Their work explores movement, optical toys, and transformative viewing experiences. During their residency at Catwalk this summer, they will prepare artwork for their first collaborative exhibition, Under the Tent: Whirling & Flickering, featuring kaleidoscopic imagery, flickering abstractions, projection mapping, hidden elements, and hand-cranked mechanisms that shift perception. Their first public artwork, Turnabout Folly, will debut in Lansing, Michigan, in Fall 2026.
