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Michele Brody was born 1967 in Brooklyn, NY. She finds great inspiration living and working in New York City, but loves to travel and work as a visiting artist abroad. |
| About the Artist | |
The essence of Michele Brody's work is to understand how we live with change and the constant flux of our environment. Working with the anthropological notion of the Limen – the threshold through which one passes at the starting point for a new state or experience, she concentrates on creating a mark, which invites the viewer to a more openness of sensation through the production of site-generated walkways, public art, ephemeral installations and living sculptures with such materials as: glass, concrete, steel, copper pipe, fabric, light, water and growing plants. |
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Looking Out
2004 |
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| A site-specific installation for the project gallery of Littlejohn Contemporary located in the Fuller Building, NY, NY.
5 sets of large format photograps taken of mid-town Manhattan from 57th Street, printed on back-lit vinyl, hang from a copper pipe structure supporting a front layer of nylon curtains. The curtains are two layers sewn together with pockets that trace the outlines of the background cityscape. Within each pocket is planted grass seed, which is watered by a recycling drip irrigation system supplied by pumps from stainless steel reservoirs at the base of each curtain. The piece is lit from behind by daylight balanced fluorescent bulbs.
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Looking Out Detail
2004 |
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| Detail of grass growing in hand sewn pockets outlining details of large format photos in the background. |
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Grass Skirt IV
2002 |
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| A lace skirt within which grass seeds native to northern California are planted and sprouted with the aid of a hydroponic drip irrigation system. The skirt is supported by an armature made from copper pipes and fittings. The piece sits in a galvanized tub, holding a pump and water, and illuminated by an internal halogen light bulb. |
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Grass Skirt Extra Large III
2006 |
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| A copper pipe structure with rye grass and native wild flower seeds planted in horizontal pockets of a three tiered skirt made from nylon fabric and lace. Watered by an internal drip irrigation system. Build on site for the Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN. |
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Garden/Forest
2000 |
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| A site specific installation for the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo
San José, Costa Rica.
35 Plastic tubes 7’ by 2” diameter, illuminated by halogen spot lights, hang from an existing metal support structure. Within each tube 5 different plants native to Costa Rica were transplanted in plexiglass planters in order to float along the top of nutrient enriched water filled within the tubes at varying heights.
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Allerton Mandala
2006 |
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| 4 faceted glass windscreens set in an epoxy resin for the elevated platform of the Allerton station stop along the #2 & #5 lines in the -Bronx. Commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit program. |
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Hill Top Path
1999 |
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| Reinforced cast concrete poured into a mold on site of where a pathway had been worn into the grass. The soil was replanted with grass between spaces left in a cast design based on the layout of the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, NY.
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Assay Manhole Cover
2002 |
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| Uniquely designed Cast iron manhole cover installed to commemorate the Assay Office that once stood at 30 Wall St. from 1823-1915. The first manhole cover installed for the public art project Re-Covering the Cityscape: Impressions of History Underfoot. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Michele Brody received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1989 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She has spent the past 12 years utilizing a strong background in the liberal arts to create site-specific, mixed media installations and works of public art that are generated by the history, culture, environment, and architecture of a wide rangeof exhibition spaces. While living and working in such places as France, Costa Rica, California, the Midwest, Germany, and her home of New York, her art career has developed into a process of working in collaboration with each new community asa means towards developing an interpretation of the sense of a place as an outsider looking in. Michele Brody has had one-person shows at Littlejohn Contemporary in NYC, Dina4 Projekte in Munich, Germany, the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo in San Jose, Costa Rica, and at Le Quai de la Batterie, Atelier-galerie d’Art Contemporain in Arras, France. She has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock/ Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts’ Architecture, Planning & Design Program; and, residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and at Marywood University. |
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| Future shows | |
| Michele Brody has a host of one-person shows and interactive projects scheduled for 2008. The first will be a series of interactive performances through her interactive Tea Ceremony project Tea House Productions at various sites throughout Lower Manhattan. Then she opens in a two-person show at the Chashama Art Gallery in May, and a one-person extravaganza at the Temple Judea Museum in Elkins Park, PA for which she just received a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist and Communities grant. She will continue showing with the traveling group exhibition Material Terrain until 2009. | |
| Website: www.michelebrody.com | |
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