In Michelle Rothwell’s colorful, digital worlds, environmental parables are rendered in hyper-detail and tempered with fantasy.

“Using her prodigious 3D modeling skills, the artist creates hybrid images that combine organic forms and man-made structures. Throughout the work on view, Rothwell contrasts the elegance of nature with what she calls the “clunky junk” that we – as humans – make. In an interior scene, a monarch butterfly perches in front of an open window, the smog of an urban landscape in the distance. The print, entitled Bio Disaster No 4, is one of five in the exhibition that depict disrupted habitats[1]. The anthropomorphized tableaus fuse video-game-style graphics with the narrative qualities of folklore. Like fables, the whimsical images of ‘The Urgent Imperative’ have a clear moral to communicate . . .”

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