Michele Brody has exhibited her work throughout New York City and Internationally with such institutions as the Atelier-galeried’Art Contemporain: Arras, France; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo: San Jose, Costa Rica; The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx River Art Center and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Michele Brody has been the recipient of several grants and residencies from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, LMCC, Pollock/Krasner Foundation, NYFA, Bronx Council on the Arts and NYSCA. Her artist residency experience includes Skowhegan, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ox-Bow, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, BronxArtSpace, Wave Hill Garden and 6 years as a SU-CASA Artist in The Bronx. In 2006 she completed two permanent works of public art for the MTA and the Department of Education’s Public Art for Public Schools program in The Bronx. Throughout the time of the Pandemic and Lock Down, Brody continued her work as a community-based artist by inviting friends and colleagues to share their window views while sheltering in place. She then used her time isolated in her home-studio to interpret these photos through a unique process of pulp painting with watermarked handmade paper.
Michele Brody has exhibited her work throughout New York City and Internationally with such institutions as the Atelier-galeried’Art Contemporain: Arras, France; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo: San Jose, Costa Rica; The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx River Art Center and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Michele Brody has been the recipient of several grants and residencies from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, LMCC, Pollock/Krasner Foundation, NYFA, Bronx Council on the Arts and NYSCA. Her artist residency experience includes Skowhegan, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ox-Bow, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, BronxArtSpace, Wave Hill Garden and 6 years as a SU-CASA Artist in The Bronx. In 2006 she completed two permanent works of public art for the MTA and the Department of Education’s Public Art for Public Schools program in The Bronx. Throughout the time of the Pandemic and Lock Down, Brody continued her work as a community-based artist by inviting friends and colleagues to share their window views while sheltering in place. She then used her time isolated in her home-studio to interpret these photos through a unique process of pulp painting with watermarked handmade paper.
"Nature in Absentia: A Lost Marshland"
January 2023
The viewer is invited to walk around cascading sheets of paper, which sound like rain when rustled by passersby towards an entrance into a darkened interior revealing an environment in distress. The only Illumination are the gallery lights filtering through the sheets of paper. Transforming the once solid surface with an eerie glow, revealing dark oblong voids left behind where the cast cattails were excavated, signifying being taken over by the phragmites.
"What we were left to see...My Window"
June 2020
Pulp Painted Handmade Paper