michael brod

Michael Brod's current installation, Whoever Emerges, combines his interest in the symbols of life and death with the juxtaposition of visual and aural forms. Brod is inspired by the movements of art and writing that occurred at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, namely the Italian Futurists, led by Filippo Marinetti, and the work of Guillaume Apollinaire, the pioneering painter-poet of the French Avant Garde in Paris. 

Brod was born in New York City and grew up in Los Angeles. There, he came to see California as the edge of the Western world. On his eventual return to New York, Brod saw the city logically followed as the center of the Western world. His lives in both cities has greatly influenced the way he views culture and history, and subsequently his body of work. The edge and center of art continues to drive his creations.