Artist Statement
Michele Landel creates beautifully eerie patchwork paintings using photography and thread.
Whether draped or flattened, her embroidered bedsheets are about engaging the need and desire to look and the inherent power struggle between the one looking and the one being looked at. She stitches over figures, cut flowers, and domesticated spaces to evoke symbols of power, loss, memory, and struggles. Mirroring and shadows are also often repeated to show self-awareness and internal worlds. Drawing on the intimacy associated with stained and mended secondhand bedsheets and the machine embroidery connected with craft, her artwork references the domestic while also deliberately distancing itself from traditional fiber arts.
Bio
Michele Landel is an American artist who lives and works in Sèvres, France. She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Art History.
Her artwork has been exhibited throughout Europe, the UK, and the US and appears in The Collage Ideas Book (Ilex Press, 2018). She was awarded the 2018 Innovative Technique Award by the Surface Design Association and was a finalist for the Prix Carré-Sur-Seine in 2020. She has held residencies at Joya: AiR in Spain, NG Creative Art Residency in France, and the Centre Pompadour Neofeminist Laboratory in France.
Her artwork is currently available through Amelie, Maison d'art and the Ségolène Brossette Galerie in Paris, France, Le Salon Vert Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, the Seager Gray Gallery in San Francisco, CA, Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia, PA, and the Muriel Guépin Gallery in NYC, NY.