The Alchemy of Resistance

Core Contemporary is pleased to present The Alchemy of Resistance, a solo art exhibition featuring Core Arts Concord’s current Artist-in-Residence, Michelle Graves.

The exhibition will be an immersive multi-disciplinary experience of sculpture, paintings, drawings, and special interactive installations showcasing the unique body of work Graves created on-site in the nonprofit studio during a 5-week period beginning in early December.

Originally going into the Core Arts Concord Residency with the idea of doing research on aspects of resistance, Michelle Graves quickly realized what piqued her interest most was the moment of change that occurs when resistance is present. Graves wandered through a path of questions and experimentations on how to physically represent this change. What happens to a magnet when it is repelled or attracted? What is in that space between? If all particles have the properties of waves according to quantum mechanics (or are waves according to String Theory), then they are always vibrating, changing and always being affected by their surroundings. And how can we as human being phenomena made of these same wavelengths be more in tune, harmonize and alchemize our own resistance?

Visitors to the exhibition will experience Graves’ interdisciplinary, existential, and often text-based art practice, involving intersections of art, science, and consciousness.

Graves was born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, and received her BFA in Photography from Indiana University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media from Columbia College Chicago. She thrived in Chicago for 16 years then began a new life exploring Las Vegas, Nevada in January 2021. She is an Adobe Certified Expert and is the current Adobe Instructor and Digital Adviser for Denver Ad School.

The exhibition runs January 13th through February 24th, with an opening reception and visit with the artist on Friday, January 13th, from 6-9 pm.