Michele Landel

Michele Landel creates intensely textured and airy collages using burned, quilted, and embroidered photographs and paper to explore the themes of exposure, absence, and memory. She manually manipulates digital photographs to highlight the way images hide and filter the truth. She then sews layers of paper together to create bandages and veils and to transform images into fragile maps.

Michele is an American fiber artist. She studied Fine Arts at the University or Pittsburgh and the University of Texas. Prior to moving to France, she was involved with the Pittsburgh Arts Festival and worked for the gallery, Exit Art in NYC and the American Institute for Architecture in Washington, DC. She lives and works in Sèvres, France.

This Spring Michele has an upcoming solo exhibition at W+ART in Sèvres, France and is participating in the group exhibition "Urban Collage" at the Feral Factory in Denver, Colorado.