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    In Practice: Michaela Bathrick

    In Practice: Michaela Bathrick

    Jun-Aug 2026

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    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.

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    In Practice is made possible by the Elaine Graham Weitzen Commissioning Fund for Emerging Artists, which supports the production of new work by artists selected from SculptureCenter's annual open call.

    Major support for the In Practice 2025 program is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The In Practice program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

    Generous support for In Practice is provided by Sarah Elson.

    In Practice: Michaela Bathrick is supported by the Eva Hesse Initiative for New Sculpture.