New Forms of the Apocalypse

Blade is a visual and conceptual artist living and working in the Bay Area. She holds a B.A. from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and an M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been featured at Triple Base, Jack Hanley and David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Carl Berg Gallery and Broad Art Center, Los Angeles; Space 1026, Philadelphia; Union Gallery, London; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen; and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stüttgart. She is a 2007 recipient of the Murphy-Cadogan Fellowship. In of 2009, Michelle opened Sight School, an alternative space dedicated to encouraging dialogue about connections between art and life.