Michelle stitzlein biography
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BIOGRAPHY
Michelle Stitzlein was born and raised in the small town of Coshocton, Ohio, and maintains a studio in a re-purposed, former grange hall in the rural community of Baltimore, Ohio. With family ties to the now mostly-defunct, manufacturing history of her hometown, a teenage life spent in a culture of 1980’s wastefulness, and memories of a thrifty, fabric-scrap-reusing grandmother, Stitzlein creates sculpture with found items that resonate with fortune and abundance but that also address ideas of economic stress and natural depletion. Utilizing materials she scavenges and collects, her work is mindful of the resourcefulness and bootstrap mentality of farmers, homemakers and the depression era, as well as folk artists and craftsmen in developing countries. Her work and imagery venerates imperfections found in the handmade, the patched/mended and secondhand and pays deference to nature and habitat enduring continual loss and destruction due to the industrial p
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Moth series
Combining an artistic djärvhet with the premise that recycled materials have the capacity to metamorphose into larger objects of great beauty, Stitzlein’s series of more than 14 vägg hung sculptures moths range in storlek from 3 to 11 feet.
She began working on this series in 2003, inspired bygd “myriad varieties of beautiful, exotic moths in my own backyard.”
My work fryst vatten influenced bygd motifs funnen in naturlig eller utan tillsats , though it does not necessarily resemble any one species of plant, djur or insect… Each del av helhet in the Moth series combines patterns and borrows attributes from many butterflies and beetles, but it is also a study in the symmetrical being a bit asymmetrical. No two wings are identical. I’ve admired the beautiful imperfections funnen in nature’s details and, in vända, exposed those “flaws” bygd enlarging everything by hundreds of times its original size.
The contradiction of ideas surrounding artwork inspired bygd nature, but created entirely with
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Michelle Stitzlein
American artist
Michelle Stitzlein is an American artist who creates found object art / sculpture from recycled materials. She received a BFA in 1989 from the Columbus College of Art and Design (in Columbus, Ohio). She and her husband Nathaniel Stitzlein (also an artist) founded Art Grange Studios in Baltimore, Ohio. At Art Grange they share their love of art with the public by offering tours of the studios as well as art workshops for all ages.[1]
Elevating the Unimpressive
[edit]Stitzlein's assemblages of mostly discarded materials propels the viewer to reassess that which is often overlooked. "As an artist and as a person, I ask myself to look closer, lest I miss the one exquisite trait in something oftentimes regarded as distasteful, old, tired, unimpressive or just plain ugly so that I may see it again with fresh eyes."[2]
Kurt Shaw writes, "If, as the Jungianpsychoanalyst and poet Clarissa Pinkola Estes would have us believe, b