Asia Art Center is pleased to announce the gallery’s representation of LA-based artist Michelle Blade. Works by Blade will feature in an exhibition scheduled for Asia Art Center’s Beijing space in 2024, and in a solo exhibition in Marin Museum of Modern Art (Novato, CA) in April.
Michelle Blade makes paintings and drawings documenting time, closely examining the stillness, strength, persistence of the natural world, painting through the seasons, taking note of the waxing and waning of blooming flowers, leaves, and quality of light. Blade endeavors to document the seasons of her parenthood, watching her daughters as they interact in places where three generations of her family have also engaged. Blade contemplates and intersects these different times, as she creates a form for memory, infusing color and texture in her acrylic and ink on cotton poplin canvases.
Born in Los Angeles in 1981, Michelle Blade has exhibited extensively throughout the world, including Taipei, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Stockholm, London, Tel Aviv, Netherlands, and Hong Kong. Blade’s work has been featured in “The New York Times Magazine”, “The Los Angeles Times”, “The Paris Review”, “Juxtapoz”, “The California Sunday Magazine”, and “Art Maze”. Michelle Blade holds a BA from Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles (2003) and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2008).
