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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition

Michael Casselli

Chair of the Arts Division/Associate Professor of Sculpture and Installation/Interim Creative Director Herndon Gallery Antioch CollegeArts
Home 127 West North College Street County: Greene
Yellow Springs Ohio 45387 United States Cell Phone: 310-977-8583 Website: http://www.michaeldcassellijr.com

Bio

While at RISD his work started to move away from the performative context, while maintaining a vested interest in this relationship to physicality, choosing to focus on the role that the spectator plays as a necessary figurative element of completed work. It was at RISD that he started to define this as one of the dominant contextual frameworks through which his work was to be experienced. By eliminating physical boundaries between the viewer and the work, he provided the spectator with a choice as to how they would interact with it.

While these concerns still remain active in the work he produces today, his vocabulary has expanded to include more subtle ways of asking the same questions and has allowed him to consider a broader palate of contemporary media in the creation of his work, utilizing video, robotics, and home-grown technologies. Michael spent twenty years in New York City within the underground art and performance scene, fully integrating his early concerns with performance and the visual arts. While continuing to create large-scale installations, he found himself able to apply many of the same concerns within the performance arena, creating scenic and video designs for dance and theater, earning him a Bessie Award for Scenic Design in 1987 for his work with Elizabeth Streb. Michael relocated to Yellow Springs in 2009 to establish the Manic Design Studio, a place for hybrid experimentation in all media. In 2013, he was awarded the Ohio Arts Council Award for Individual Excellence.