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Artist Exhibitions:
2007 "Predilections"
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New
York
Feb. 10 - March 15
Reception: Saturday Feb.24
4-6pm
www.nancyhoffmangallery.com
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Artist Reviews:
"Found objects have a rich
history as ingredients of
modern art, stemming from the
early collages of Picasso and
Braque. East Bay artist
Michele Pred adds a new
category to the vast catalog
of found art materials: the
confiscated object."
-Kenneth Baker, San Francisco
Chronicle
September 7, 2002
At the...
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Collections:
Roselyne Swig, San Francisco,
CA
Rene di Rosa, Napa, CA
Joachim and Nancy Bechtle, San
Francisco, CA
Suzanne Bass, New York, NY...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Michele Pred
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Over the past 4 years I have gathered confiscated items from security checkpoints at San Francisco International Airport, in order to express visually how many of our everyday routines have been disrupted since 9/11.
The objects lend themselves to interpretations that resonate with the viewer's own personal experience. In part, I choose to see those objects as representing an arbitrary intrusion of disorder and all that is now lost and unrecoverable.
Moreover, the diverse array of assembled "dangerous" items may be regarded as the cultural residue of a particular moment in history. The fine text on the matchboxes, corkscrews and other items is suggestive of the complex geography of that moment, of people and commodities coming into conjuncture with one another.
Seeing these ordinary objects, most of them so seemingly harmless, as imbued with the potential for danger may make us laugh, as well as make us angry. The complexity of our response echoes the objects themselves: each small tool, like each of us, bears some of the weight of a changed world.
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