Brody leads off Artist in Residence
program with February appearance

Michele Brody, the first of three artists to come to the Texas A&M College of Architecture during the spring 2009 semester’s Artist in Residence program, worked with students to build two seed post installations, now sprouting greenery along the elevated breezeway between Langford builds A and B.

Brody’s work, such as the seed post project, which was part of her “Green Environments” workshop, endeavors to make viewers more aware of the relationship between themselves, nature, and the urban environment.

Upcoming Artists in Residence visits include in March the San Francisco-based Rebar Group, followed by an April visit from Philadelphia artist Jenny Sabin.

The Rebar Groups work ranges broadly in scale, scope and context, and belies discrete categorization. It is, at minimum, situated in the domains of environmental installation, urbanism and absurdity.

Much like a DJ samples recorded sounds, Rebar’s work appropriates elements of the physical/cultural world and remixes them into novel contexts. By remixing the landscape in this way, Rebar exposes new meanings and alters assumptions about the shared environment.

In addition to teaching at PennDesign, Jenny Sabin directs CabinStudio, a research and architectural design studio in Philadelphia. She is also collaborating with the Jones Lab at the Institute for Medicine and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on investigating the intersections between architecture, textile structures, computation and biology.

The college’s Artist in Residence program is sponsored by the Department of Visualization and the Texas A&M Academy of Visual and Performing Arts.

More photos from Brody's stay at Texas A&M are on the Department of Visualization's website at www-viz.tamu.edu.

Read more about this year's Artists in Residence.

- Posted: March 3, 2009 -