source: influxcouk

If like me, you like to make a fetish out of motors, then you might well dig this leather wrought art by Brooklyn based artist Michelle Lopez. Now, there’s something tantalising about a car wrap: something about possibility and revelation; something about the promise of magical objects. Render the above in leather, then well…
Course, wraps have always made sense if you’re determined to protect your classic from the environment and unwanted human attention: but we reckon car wraps should come as standard.
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source: rockethub

I’m Michelle Lopez and I’ve been working as an artist for the past 20 years in New York and California. I make sculptures and installations that corrupt cultural icons and translate them into new forms. I did a show in 2011 at Simon Preston Gallery in New York that examined as a starting point the debris of airplane parts. The work came mainly from a searing experience of standing in Soho as the twin towers came down. That moment changed my relationship with every aspect of my life—with people and with making objects as a sculptor. I had to regenerate new ideas for myself about what mattered. I translated my own 9/11 experience into sculptures called Blue Angels – folded, crushed, mirrored aluminum pieces. They stand 10 feet tall, with broad bands of primary paint, evocative of commercial airlines. I wrestled with the sheet on the ground in order to create a form that is simultaneously, a sculpture, a performance and a collapsed figure.
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source: shopgreyarea

Michelle Lopez is a sculptor born in 1970. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Michelle Lopez received her B.A. in literature and art history in 1992 at Barnard College, and she received her M.F.A in 1994 at the School of Visual Arts. She has been exhibiting since 1996 in various groups shows and has had solo exhibitions at Feature Inc., Deitch Projects and Simon Preston Gallery.