In the "Fetch" series, Dr. Michelle Rivera's bold, life-sized dogs emerge from a multimedia, monochromatic, abstract background. Their gaze is direct, summoning the viewer to enter their fun world and play. Michelle believes that art should invoke a happy memory or feeling, perhaps even the same happiness that she feels while she is painting. "I paint large images with big strokes very quickly, in order to transfer my energy onto the canvas. Painting is the perfect creative and emotional outlet for me.” Dr. Rivera is a Harvard trained physician, wife, and mother of 3 teenagers who lives, paints, and practices breast imaging in Charlotte, NC.