Bronx Blue Bedroom Project is proud to present the work of | Michelle Frick Arterial Nests

Saturday, April 4– April 27, 2009

Opening reception for the artist: Saturday, April 4, 2-5pm

Bronx Culture Trolley stop on Wednesday April 1, 5-8:30

http://www.bronxarts.org/MonthlyVenuePage.asp


Michelle’s art making was refocused a few years ago when two immediate family members were hospitalized for numerous extended periods of time. For four years she witnessed the aftermath of high-risk medical procedures and was exposed to a wide variety of nurses' supplies. Initially uneasy with the hospital supplies, she eventually viewed them as interesting forms offering evocative possibilities to her art.



For her exhibition at Bronx Blue Bedroom Project, Michelle will present a new installation entitled Arterial Nests. The bedroom will be transformed into a medical research lab inhabited by numerous birds' nests made of silicone and intravenous line components. An ambient soundtrack and a light box will round out the multisensory quality of the piece.



The Bronx Blue Bedroom Project events are made possible with public funds from The Bronx Council on the Arts through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Greater New York Development Fund Regrants Program, Bronx borough president Adolfo Carrion, The Bronx Delegation of the City Council, Bx 1 Indie Arts Program and with the generous support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.



Bronx Blue Bedroom Project

309 Alexander Ave., Apt. 3A

6 line to 138th St/3rd Ave.

347.776.7504

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Article in WNYC.ORG regarding Michelle's upcoming show at BBBP and a little more...


Gallery Makeovers: Sun K. Kwak and Bedroom Gallerists
by Allison Lichter

NEW YORK, NY March 23, 2009 —Art galleries big and small are getting makeovers by New York artists.

For the past month, Korean-born artist Sun K. Kwak has been covering the walls of a fifth floor gallery at the Brooklyn Museum with almost three miles of thick black masking tape

She's cut undulating white lines into the tape, making the piece a room-sized mural. The installation is called "Enfolding 280 hours" -- that's the amount of time Kwak thinks it will take her to complete the project, which opens this Friday.

And in an even smaller space, in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx, Blanka Amezkua has turned her bedroom into an art gallery.

She invites mixed media artists to do as they please in her small room. One artist plans to bring in birds and nests made out of surgical material. Amezkua says alternative arts spaces offer artists a lot of freedom to work

AMEZKUA: The artists really feel like they can do so much more in the space that’s not as controlled as more established venues.

There are photos of the Bronx Bedroom gallery and a video of Sun K. Kwak wrapping the gallery at the Brooklyn Museum on our website.