In Practice: Michaela Bathrick — Michaela Bathrick

Michaela Bathrick’s work finds subtle instances of expression in the functional forms of the built environment. Head-on, her sculptures—primarily made of cast cement treated with soap stain—seem formal, weathered, and neglected, like brackets or fittings decommissioned from a public building. From other angles, they resemble letters or bits of language, drawing out the wry, barely ornamental excesses of public space, and creating the sense that the city may be built of incomplete utterances. Bathrick is developing a new body of work for In Practice.