Michelle Rosenberg collects dirty and abandoned brooms and brushes discovered throughout the city. These materials embody the activity of cleaning, the untold stories of domestic labor, and mass produced disposable culture. Reconfiguring the found bristles in various optical compositions, the sculptures are transformed into renewed objects of desire.
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Michelle Rosenberg (b. Manchester, United Kingdom) currently lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College (New York, NY), BFA & B.Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI), and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, Maine). Recent exhibitions include “Family Residency” Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY; “Distance” Dorskey Gallery, Queens, NY; “Tell Us Plainly” Aquarius Studios, Queens, NY; “Mother’s House” yours, mine & ours, New York, NY; and “The Free Alphabet” Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan.