MICHELLE GEVINT

Photo courtesy of the Artist, Michelle Gevint

Photo courtesy of the Artist, Michelle Gevint

Michelle Gevint (born 1980, Israel) is an Israeli-American interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in New York. She obtained her BFA from Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem and her MFA at Parsons School of Design. Selected group exhibitions and residencies include: The Bronx Museum of Art, AIM Biennial, Fridman gallery, NYC, NYABF MOMA PS1, Lanzia Museum, Poland, Bric Media Fellowship, Keyholder residency,  MassMoCa residency, 2-person exhibition at Local projects gallery space, LIC, NY, Governors Island Art Fair, Gallery 46, London, Trestle Gallery residency and group exhibition, NY, Hermitage Museum, Russia, Beijing Design Festival, China, Auckland Photo Festival, NZ, Sotheby's Chicago, MICA, Baltimore, G91, NY, Marble House Residency, VT, Vermont studio center.

Featured in publications include Woman Cinemakers magazine, The Chicago Sun Times, Bronx Museum catalogue, Humble Arts Foundation, Aint-bad online Magazine, Float Magazine, The artist catalogue, Recinema catalogue, ICP blog, Sidney College of Arts and Arts Culture Beat, online Columbia university blog, Art Fuse and The Berkshire Eagle. Recent screenings include UN climate change summit COP23 at the Kunst Museum Bonn, Germany, museum TBA21, Currents New Media festival, Santa Fe, NM, Imagine Science festival NYC and Newfilmmakers festival, Anthology film archives NYC.

Website: michellegevint.com | Instagram @michellegevint

THE SWEET STENCH OF SULFUR

September 25 to October 30, 2023
10 Times Square Billboard, South East Corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue

PRESENTED BY ZAZ CORNER “IN BETWEEN” 

These 5 videos were made between 2022-23. They are constructed through an exploratory editing process of screen collaging, looping, mirroring and digital color alteration. The starting point for each video is either a handmade work on paper, or a brief recording of transient motion found in my daily experience. Horizontal Voids (Avoids) and Leveling are derived from a series of cardboard collages that These 5 videos were made between 2022-23. They are constructed through an exploratory editing process of screen collaging, looping, mirroring and digital color alteration. The starting point for each video is either a handmade work on paper, or a brief recording of transient motion found in my daily experience. Horizontal Voids (Avoids) and Leveling are derived from a series of cardboard collages that utilize architectural elements to explore material and notional impermanence. Only to Return, Suspension Field and The Yards originate from moment spent traveling through liminal spaces, where the swooping connection of electrical wires from a train window, the flashes of soot and grime along a motorway’s tunnel walls, and the angular mosaic patterns drifting by on a descending escalator, all have given me pause. Encoded in these often mundane instances are infinite worlds above and below the recorded surfaces. Working in what feels like a collaboration with my computer, there is an intuitive give and take between my aesthetic sensibilities and the software’s editing tools. Together we are drawn towards abstraction, where the moving imagery is pulled further and further away from its original source material in order to reveal ground.

ARTIST Recent PROJECTS

Artist Statement

Michelle Gevint’s work examines personal and social relationships to urban spaces and built environments, specifically ideas of displacement, alienation, and failure. Her installations use man-made landscapes to explore notions of utopian visions which alter when rendered into reality. Blurring fact and fiction; She reflect on the power of cultural myths and archetypes in a contemporary context and examine the state of a social consciousness. Growing up in Israel, a country of conflict over borders, the idea of an unstable landscape is a common theme throughout her work. This is depicted through concrete architectural collages, battered landscapes and a changing ecosystem.