Michelle L. Herman
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"Untitled (I Can't Trust the Universe)"
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2021; Mixed Media Installation (Digital collage, dye-sublimation fabric printing, digital embroidery, a found objects, house paint, floating screen, digital video, and video projection)
This soft sculpture in the form of a couch was created using dye-sublimation fabric printing, digital embroidery, and a found object (sofa). Using NASA open source telescope imagery, I designed the fabric to be vaguely reminiscent of 'default' cellphone and smart device backgrounds. Two digitally embroidered pillows display the text from two cellphone message alert incidents: one from 2018 when a ballistic missile threat alert was sent to all residents of Hawaii and the other from President Trump testing the National presidential alert system.
In this piece, I am pointing to the systems of power that are always-present but unseen: they are 'just off-screen' in some ways but have the ability to influence us: our emotions and our actions.
A modified coffee table accompanies the couch which displays the kinetic light sculpture Untitled (Technology / Transformation) and provides a place for wireless headphones to be picked up for use by Viewers for the following video work(s)
Artwork Tags: Digital Embroidery Fabric Installation Art Soft Sculpture
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Conceptual, new media, video, and other artwork by emerging interdisciplinary artist Michelle Lisa Herman located in Washington, DC
Michelle Lisa Herman is a Washington, DC-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans theoretical and philosophical research, feminist and disability politics, comedy, and conceptualism.Herman has shown internationally in both group and solo exhibitions at locations such as the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Cinéma du Foyer Saint-François (Bourges, France), the Corcoran (Washington, DC), The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Goggleworks (Reading, PA), Hillyer Art Space (Washington, DC), Arlington Art Center (Arlington, VA), Visarts (Rockville, MD), and the Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC).Herman's work has been written about and featured in Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, The Washington Post, NPR, and East City Arts. Herman is an alumna of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MFA, 2020) and the Sparkplug artist collective sponsored by the DC Arts Center.
Interview in Culture Caleidoscoop October 10, 2022
Contribute to the Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Library "Heritage Wall" July 24, 2022
February 4, 2022 Review in the Washington Post by Mark Jenkins February 14, 2022
Solo Exhibition at Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park January 5, 2022
"Hello!" Exhibition Curated by Vesela Sretenovic October 27, 2021
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