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February 2017
WAVE HER
New publication release through Commune Press at LA Art Book Fair
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Happy to have my work accompanying The Long and Pretty Goodbye, a poignant piece on The Paris Review online by Megan Mayhew Bergman.
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SEPTEMBER 2016
Gentle Existential
Brilliant Champions Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A solo exhibition by Michelle Blade
Exhibition: September 15 - October 6, 2016
Reception: Thursday, September 15, 2016 from
6:00- 9:00PM
In my dream I am looking at a busy urban city street scene. On the sidewalk beats my heart, it is floating above my body and I am watching both, as if they were pedestrians. I watch my suspended heart go for a walk with my body, following beneath it, sliding along as if on a moving sidewalk. While my heart continues to beat rhythmically through the city it moves out of my line of vision. My psyche and my sight, a separate duo, pan left. My psyche says to my sight, “gestalt”, and I awake.
Brilliant Champions Gallery is pleased to present Gentle Existential, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Michelle Blade. Driven by the inescapable qualities of the natural world Blade's work investigates curiosity and one's search for meaning and place within the universe.
Following in the tradition of Romantic painters projecting the human psyche onto landscape, Blade creates sculptures and paintings examining the relationship between psychological and external space. Shifting between subjectivities, Blade also examines the concept of the empath, a person who soaks up the emotional environment around them and internalizes it. Combining these two perspectives, the work within Gentle Existential becomes a personal and geographic mythology, a figurative painter’s feminine and empathic look at the parts versus the whole of experience—and subtle workings of the self within the world.
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August 20, 2016
Newly completed mural in Sacramento, Ca as part of the Sacramento Mural Festival
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DENIM DIY | RVCA WOMENS 08/17/2016
DENIM DIY FEATURING RVCA ADVOCATES ANDREA DOSOUTO, IMOGEN CALDWELL, KYLEA BORGES, LILY MEOLA, MAHINA ALEXANDER, MARGAUX ARRAMON-TUCOO, MICHELLE BLADE, NORA VASCONCELLOS, SYLVE COLLESS & ZOE MCDOUGALL.
Full feature online here.
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AUGUST 2016
Ritual Night
Left Field Gallery , San Luis Obispo, CA
August 5 – September 5, 2016
Michelle Blade, Alison Blickle, Karolina Gnatowski, Marcie Oakes
Opening Friday, August 5
Time Traveling, 20164x5'
Let it Go, 201620x24''
Post Chrysalis, 201624x24''
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April 2016
Newly completed mural commission for Facebook HQ in Meno Park, CA.
Building design by Frank Gehry
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Group Exhibition:
„gutes Geleit“
Axel Obiger, Berlin
April 30 – May 21, 2016
Featuring:
Michelle Blade, Daniela Hoferer, Katia Kelm, Michaela Meise,
Silvia von Pock, Jehoshua Rozenman, Maria Schoof, Eva Wisbauer,
Cornelia Wissel and Gloria Zein
Curated by Susanne Ring
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May-July 2016
Group Show
GOT IT FOR CHEAP VOL 2, 3, 4.
David Risley Gallery in Copenhagen: May 4,
Steinsland Berliner Gallery in Stockholm: May 20
Agnes B's Gallerie du Jour in Paris: July 21.
Curated by Charlie Roberts, Chris Rexroad
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July 2016
Upcoming Solo show
Brilliant Champions, Brooklyn NY
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March 2016
Current studio view update
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March 18 - April 30, 2016
Metagalactic
David Smith Gallery, Denver
Michelle Blade, Ala Ebtekar, Tobias Fike, Cameron Gainer, Paul Jacobsen, Becca Mann, NASA/STScI, Chris Oatey, and DJ Spooky
Metagalactic is a group exhibition that brings together a body of work that relies on
the aesthetics of outer space to explore themes about vastness, infinitude, darkness, and exploration into the unknown.
Installation views featured above
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February 2016
LA Art Book Fair
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
I will have some new works at the LAABF this year at the &Pens table
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Interview on COOL HUNTING about the Making of The Circadian Tarot
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THE THING QUARTERLY + MICHELLE BLADE
The Aura Scarf
September 2015
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Narwhal Contemporary
Flat Sun on a Disc of Water
Leon Benn, Michelle Blade, Lisa DiQuinzio, Paul Hardy, Hanna Hur and Josh Thorpe
July 29 – August 29, 2015
Opening Reception:
Wednesday July 29
from 6-9pm
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Cinders "LAST DAZE"
Space Gallery in Portland, Maine
Opening July 24th
Chris Duncan, Jessie Rose Vala, Maya Hayuk, Nat Russell, Suzy Poling, Sto Len, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Allyson Mellberg, Kevin Hooyman, Marie Lorenz, Jeremy Taylor, Jack Henry, Kelie Bowman, Langdon Graves, Michelle Blade, Frank Haines, Alex Lukas, Melanie Bonajo, Niall Mclelland and Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels.
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Opening Thursday July 16, up through August 9
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June 2015: Our Vessel, Our Selves
RVCA SF, June-September 2015
Collaborative window installation with Kylea Borges
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Artist in residence at Facebook from May-June 2015
Permanent installation, Facebook HQ, Menlo Park
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New ceramic work for JUG LIFE : New Contemporary Still Life
Curated by Andrew Schoultz and Patrick Martinez
May 22nd - June 28th 2015
Opening Reception Friday May 22nd, 6-9pm
Featuring:
Dennis Mcnett, Cody Hudson, Joshua Petker, Brian Wilmont, Libby Black, Glen Baldridge, Tim Biskup, Ryan Wallace, Harley Lafarah Eaves, Adam 5100, Richard Colman, Dennis Kernohan, Michelle Blade, Hilary Pecis, Tracy Timmens, Ryan Travis Christian, Alex Nicholson, Andrew Martin Scott, Bill Mcright, Kevin Taylor, Alex Lukas, Ian Johnson, Jonah Olsen, Gin Stevens, Joey Piziali, James Marshall, Terry Powers, Kevin Chen, Erin Riley, Serena Cole, Osei Key, Beau Roulette, Juan Carlos Araujo, Kelie Bowman, Joseph Hart, Louise Sheldon, Louis Schmitt, Joshua Rubens, Alan Gonzalez, Brad Bernhardt, Ben Venom, Jefferson Eisenberg, Ryan Shaffer, Timothy Bergstrom, Megan Gorham, Thomas Ovlisen, Leo Eguiarte, Aaron De La Cruz, B+ Brian Cross, Estevan Oriol, Ernesto Burgos, Gregory Bojorquez, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Millie Brown, REVOK, Michelle Guintu, Kevin Lyons, Brent Rollins, Elizabeth Valdez, Ricardo Estrada, Gary Garay, ZES, Sam Friedman, Ramiro Gomez Jr., Carlos Donjuan, Pretty Puke, Rigo Jiminez, Andres Guerrero, Marco Zamora, Sabio, Conrad Ruiz, Raymundo T. Reynoso, Maxwell McMaster
and others…..
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Illustration for the California Sunday Magazine, April 2015 issue
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March 2015
Find the Michelle Blade 2015 Spring/Summer capsul collection with RVCA online here.
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Printed Matter's LA ART BOOK FAIR
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
January 29-February 1
This year & Pens Press will release "For the Time Being" zine about out of body experiences by Michelle Blade at the LA ART BOOK FAIR. This two-color, 32 page risograph printed is a limited edition of 150.
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The Eternal Sunrise Suit
A new swim collaboration between Michelle Blade and RVCA, online now.
RVCA SWIM | SPRING '15 Lookbook
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Upcoming Exhibitions:
Your Favorite Artist's Favorite Artist Group Exhibition
Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
November 20 to December 20, 2014
Ducks
Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
October 24 to November 29, 2014
Sheros
Lamp Gallery, Harajuku Tokyo
October 23 to November 11
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Interview with Kristin Farr
Juxtapoz, December 2014 Issue
