Bunny Michael, In the Pursuit of it All, We Discovered We Had Everything We Needed Within Ourselves, 2015,
C Print, 24” x 24”
A solo exhibition featuring new work by Bunny Michael
Exhibition Dates: June 26th – July 12th
Opening Reception: June 26th | 7-9pm
New York, NY [June 16, 2015] – Alt Space is pleased to present Etheric Double, Bunny Michael’s first solo exhibition, featuring new digital portraits and acrylic paintings that explore the beguiling tangles of human consciousness and relationships. Steeped in overwhelming positivity and self-love, Bunny Michael’s work bridges the divide between the self and self-awareness, the natural world and the future, reality and perception. With Etheric Double, Bunny Michael uses her own “spiritual twin” as the conduit for expressing and advocating kindness, love, and acceptance of yourself and those around you. There will be an opening reception at Alt Space (41 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn) on June 26 from 7 to 9pm, and the show will run from June 26 to July 12.
Bunny Michael was first discovered by Alt Space through issue #3 of Alt Citizen, where she discussed her otherworldly views on art, spirituality, and sex. Her enthusiasm for confident, free expression over arbitrary accolades and status, as well her celebration of the untapped potential and power of sexuality, communicated a mind of immeasurable, uncompromising depth. After being introduced to the sheer scope of Bunny Michael’s personal and artistic philosophies, Alt Space quickly recognized her work’s need for a more expansive space to live and breathe, and, as such, the gallery has proudly coordinated her first solo showcase.
Concerning the inspiration behind Etheric Double, Bunny Michael has provided this Artist Statement:
Bunny Michael visually narrates the intimate relationship between the artist and what she refers to as her “etheric double.” The etheric double or spiritual twin is another version of the artist existing on a “higher level of consciousness.” The etheric double is the energetic body of information removed from the limitations of the egoic thinking. She is unbounded knowledge of universal consciousness and unexplainable synchronicity. Bunny Michael demonstrates the unstable relationship to this “higher being” by depicting their domestic relationship through the lens of our cultural and social understanding.
Bunny Michael’s colorful and vulnerable digital portraits of herself and her etheric double challenge the tradition of “self portrait” by presenting “the witness of self.” She will also be presenting a series of acrylic paintings that are the “channeled language” between the artist and her spiritual twin.
About Bunny Michael
The original “art rapper” coined by Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker, Bunny Michael (formerly known as Bunny Rabbit) has spent the past 4 years dedicating herself to the pedagogy of self realization through soundscapes and visualization, becoming an expanding vessel to Universal Creative Consciousness. The result is her first self produced EP, Rainbow Licker, a 4-song initiation that not only moves you in the physical realm but transports to dimensions beyond. As a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and musician, Bunny Michael has toured internationally with her music. She has been featured and profiled in FADER, Bullet Magazine, and Out.com, and has exhibited artwork at Capricious Gallery NYC and The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. This is her first solo exhibition.
Location
41 Montrose Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11206
Gallery and Store Hours
Tues – Sun, 12PM – 7PM
Contact
Nasa Hadizadeh
Editor in Chief | Alt Citizen
(p) 646-384-0196 | (e) nasa@altcitizen.com
