Michele Brody

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.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. By incorporating the liminal experience with its message of change and transformation as witnessed in the life cycle of flora, or the ever changing makeup of city streets, she wishs to subtly plant within the viewer a desire to be more aware of the tenuous relationship between themselves, nature, and the urban environment. She also wishes to communicate the delicatecharacteristics of memory and how time can both erode and enhance our interpretations of experience.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 Harlem Roots, Casa Frela, New York, NY.
Reflections in Tea, chashama 461 Gallery, New York, NY.
2012 Reflections in Tea, Hudson Guild-Guild Gallery II, New York, NY.
Drawing Roots, Hudson Guild-Guild Gallery II, New York, NY.
2011 Reflections in Tea, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY.
Nature Preserve, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI.
2010 Incubation, Roosevelt Island Student Community Center, New York, NY.
2009 Tea Cart Stories, Lower East Side Tenement Museum: Tenement Window Installation, New York, NY.
2008 Entering from the Inside, Temple Judea Museum, Elkins Park, PA.
Reflections in Tea, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY.
2006 Grass Skirt Extra Large III, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN.
Vermont Preserve, Burlington City Arts, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT.
2005 Environmental Architectonica, Karpio + Facchini Gallery, Miami, FL.
2004 Looking Out, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY.
Taking Root: Germany, Dina4 Projekte, Munich, Germany.
2003 Visiting Artist Exhibition, Marywood University Art Department, Scranton, PA.
2002 Burguet Project One, Le Quai de la Batterie, Atelier-galerie d’Art contemporain, Arras, France.
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