Michele Pred
Radical Love, 2020

neon on plexiglass
24”H x 24”W x 5”D

ARTWORK STATEMENT:

I believe that love is a powerful vehicle for creating political change. And not just any kind of love; but radical love. The kind of radical, activist love practiced by Martin Luther King. The kind of love that drives people to volunteer to escort young women to planned parenthood through a gauntlet of intolerance or facedown a phalanx of rushing police in Portland. The kind of love required to heal our polarized world and the kind of love required to respond to the violent, racist, and fascist attack on our democracy that took place on January 6.

ARTIST BIO:

Michele Pred is a Swedish American conceptual artist whose practice includes sculpture, assemblage, and performance. Pred has been represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York since 2004. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Berkeley Art Museum, the 21c Museum Hotels, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, and the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Art News Magazine, Artnet, and the Los Angeles Times, among many others.