Michel Varisco’s work explores the complex relationships between natural and man-made environments through photography, assemblage, sculpture, site-specific installations, printmaking and video. Varisco is currently represented by A Gallery For Fine Photography in New Orleans, where “Below Sea Level”, her new body of magical realist photographs and assemblages, is on view. Varisco has received multiple awards and commissions through the SURDNA Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and was an invited residency artist at the Rauschenberg Artist Residency in 2014. She was honored most recently with a commission from the City of New Orleans Percent for Art program to produce the original public sculptural installation, “Turning: prayer wheels for the Mississippi River,” which unveiled as a featured site in the 2017 New Orleans Prospect.4 triennial. Varisco’s solo and group exhibition history includes galleries and museums such as the United States Embassy in Moscow, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Acadiana Center for The Arts, Francis McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Gallery 1646 Den Hague/Netherlands, and Soho Photo Gallery, NY. Varisco’s work is included in public, private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad such as the National Library of Paris, Luciano Benetton collection, and the Surdna Foundation collection. Varisco received a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola University, her MFA from Tulane University, studied in France and Italy, and is an artist/mentor at NOCCA|Riverfront in New Orleans.