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May 16 - May 16, 2013

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Fort Mason Center- Festival Pavilion San Francisco, CA
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Miss Conception Miss Conception, 2013
Michele Pred will be performing "Miss Conception" at the artMRKT SF opening night preview, this will be her debut performance in San Francisco after presenting this project at Miami Basel, 2012 and the Armory Show, New York, 2013 Ms. Pred will offer a wry commentary on 21st Century politics with a focus on birth control and beauty. Her outfit will include a 60's era beauty pageant dress, along with a rhinestone tiara covered in expired birth control pills. Her embroidered sash that reads "Miss Conception, is made by the same company that provides sashes to the "Miss America" pageant She will engage with visitors and give out hand-lettered cards with intriguing misconceptions about reproductive rights. This project was recently covered in the Huffington Post and by MSN and Jezebel. Additional artworks from her series about Reproductive Rights will be on view for the duration of the Art Fair (May 16 - 19) at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, booth # 209. These artworks are made using expired Birth Control pills as her palette, Pred has acquired approximately 17,000 expired, unwanted and placebo pills, mostly through crowd sourcing via Facebook and Twitter. This series was reviewed in the May issue of ARTnews magazine. Michele Pred is a Swedish-American conceptual artist, Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the 21st Century Museum, The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in NY, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, The Di Rosa Museum in Napa, CA and is held in numerous corporate and private collections. Michele Pred recieved her BFA from California College of the Arts where she is now an adjunct professor. www.michelepred.com artMRKT Fort Mason Center- Festival Pavilion Directions: http://fortmason.org/aboutus/visitor-information/directions http://www.art-mrkt.com/sf/programming-and-events
Miss Conception Miss Conception Tiara, Birth control pills, enamel, rhinsetones and metal
Miss Conception In Our Shoes, 2013