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Opening Reception: July 10, 2025, 5-8 pm
Artist Discussion w/ Jennifer McGregor: July 31, 2025, 6:30-8 pm
Closing Reception: Aug 16, 2025 from 2-5 pm
The Bronx River Art Center is proud to announce Arboreal Ethereal: Capturing the Entropy of Nature, a solo exhibition by Michele Brody, on view this summer as part of the BRAC Artist Studio Program Spotlight Series.
Through an immersive installation of paper-based sculptures and community-centered programming, Brody confronts the urgent themes of environmental degradation, memory, and migration in The Bronx and beyond. The exhibition is produced with curatorial support from Fulbright scholar Alena Alekseeva and will be on view from July 10 to August 16, 2025.
There will be an Opening Reception on July 10th from 5-8 PM.
An Artist talk and discussion with independent curator Jennifer McGregor on July 31st from 6:30-8 PM.
Michele Brody’s practice merges environmental activism with material poetics. Trained in fibers and material studies, she is known for creating mixed-media installations and public works of art that interweave local flora and community stories to deepen an understanding of the surrounding ecology and history. At its core, her focus is on crafting sustainable site-generated environmental installations that illuminate the subtle beauty of the everyday while grappling with the challenges of globalization, over-development, and more extreme weather events. Her exhibition at BRAC will feature new and recent works from her series Nature in Absentia and relevant past and ongoing projects.
Nature in Absentia memorializes the disappearance of native ecosystems through two significant bodies of work: Monarch Migrations and Ghosting. This series emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the temporary slowing of urban life revealed the latent resilience of natural systems.
In Monarch Migrations viewers are enveloped in a suspended swarm of origami butterflies made from handmade milkweed paper, the host plant for Monarch habitats. Set against dynamic footage from the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, the piece draws a poignant parallel between the instinctual flight of the Monarchs and the struggles of human migration across borders.
The second installation, Ghosting, features cast-paper sculptures and wall reliefs of once-native NY trees like the Silver Birch and American Chestnut. Rendered in translucent sheets of abaca and kozo, these spectral forms evoke absence as presence — a forest of memory.
Join us for the opening reception on July 10th to engage with Brody’s evocative work, which sparks conversation about the delicate interplay of nature and humanity. We invite you to experience this unique ecosystem, created through a meticulous artistic process.
Gallery hours:
Monday through Friday from 3-6 p.m. and Saturdays from 12-5 p.m., or by special appointment.
For more information, please get in touch with Jhanique Lovejoy, Exhibition Associate, at (718)589-5819 x10, by email at exhibitions@bronxriverart.org or directly with the artist at urban4x4@gmail.com.
To view Michele Brody’s work online, go to michelebrody.com or @mbrody16.
To view on the Bronx River Art Center website, go to Bronxriverart.org.
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