Michele Jaquis is an interdisciplinary artist who examines the complexities within personal relationships, identity, language and communication. She has moved up and down the east coast most of her life, but relocated to Los Angeles after receiving her MFA in sculpture from RISD in 2000. Michele has had solo exhibitions at South La Brea Gallery in Inglewood, The Office in Huntington Beach, Gallery 825 in Los Angeles and The Hatch Gallery in Los Angeles. She has also participated in various video screenings, film festivals, performance events and group exhibitions in the US and abroad, and has curated several video screenings and performance events throughout Los Angeles and New England. Michele has taught at RISD, Cal Sate Long Beach and UC Riverside and Otis College of Art and Design where she is currently Assistant Professor and Coordinator for the Artist, Community and Teaching Program. Her recent documentary, Recovered - Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back, made in collaboration with Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh and the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, won Best Documentary in the Director's Chair Film Festival in Staten Island, NY and was an Official Selection in both the Victoria Independent Film Festival in Sebastapol, Australia and the REEL HeART International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.
NEWS:
Click here for up to date list of upcoming screenings of Recovered - Journeys Through the Autism Specturm and Back.
New work included in upcoming exhibitions:
3.13.10 - 4.6.10 Something with Women, curated by Barbara Maloutas, New
Puppy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
