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Crawl Space is pleased to present it’s first ever Studio Intensive Residency Exhibition, Tantrums, a multi-media installation created by resident artist Michelle Fried during one week of confinement to Crawl Space grounds. Created and installed during her one week of solitary confinement to Crawl Space grounds, the Pittsburgh artist presents a range of media including various large and small 2D media, video, sculpture and sound focusing on reformulating her biography from the ages between 8 and 18.

The general frustrations of this period inform the artist’s work -- the banality of childhood fantasy, the powerlessness of young adult rebellion, latent violent tendencies, sexual loathing, and the id-centered, defiant tantrums of emerging adulthood. “Furthermore, during this phase in life, we all have an index of cultural knowledge that is forever tied with our preteen life. How do these characters, like DJ Tanner, Kurt Cobain, Marshall Applewhite (the charismatic leader from the Heaven’s Gate Cult), and Igrid Bayer (Escambia High School’s Homecoming Queen) play into our biographies as adults?”