MICHELE BRODY

ARTIST BIO/STATEMENT:

Michele Brody is an environmental, community-based artist whose practice thrives on the interaction with new communities and environments, and how we manage the passage of time and entropy within the constant flux of life. She has exhibited her interactive installations both nationally and internationally at the Atelier-galeried’Art Contemporain: Arras, France; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo: San Jose, Costa Rica; Dina4 Projekte: Munich, Germany; Temple Judea Museum: Elkins Park, PA; and in New York City with Chashama, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York Botanical Garden, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Julio Valdez Project Space, AAA3A, Art Live Here and the Bronx Museum. She has received an artist grant or residency almost every year since receiving her MFA from The School of Art Institute of Chicago in 1994.  In 2011 she was awarded Best 3-D Entry at the international Art Prize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has completed two permanent public works of art for the MTA Allerton Station and Department of Education PS/MS194 in The Bronx.

The materiality of her practice explores a nuanced understanding of environmental flux due to natural entropy and human-made climate crises. The success of her work thrives on the interaction with new communities and environments that focus on being present within a place to affect change. The essence of her process is to understand how we manage the ephemeral qualities of memory and experience. Building from this unpredictable foundation, she invites community interaction across a threshold to evoke a visceral encounter within a shared space that comments on the tenuous relationship between nature and humans within the built environment.