Michele Rushfeldt Featured in ARTEFUSE

The Artefuse magazine reviews the art projects of VillageOneArt collaborating artist Michele Rushfeldt.

Michele Rushfeldt is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her three-dimensional work focuses on materials associated with sexuality and kink and depicts how observations of fringe eroticism feel and look. Centralizing the viewer, the work incorporates them as a watcher of its activity, as part of the experience, emphasizing the performative aspect of the works. The idea of performativity becomes emphasized by spot-lighting and installation decisions, such as leather couches and proximity to the works themselves.

The Artefuse reviewed Michele Rushfeldt’s humorous and elegant sculptures engage the aesthetic language of kink and exhibitionism; each of these “figures” exhibits a different attitude, evoking scenes of intimacy and provoking slightly guilty feelings of voyeurism in the viewer, which as the setting for an imaginary leather party gives these sculptures the space they need to sparkle.