About the artist:

Michelle Rollman born 1967 Denver, Colorado. Her stylized renditions of animals at play have made Michelle Rollman an underground legend. In The Book of Practical Pussies, Rollman has asked some likeminded artists and poets for texts to illustrate her perverse and extraordinary vision. Rollman's seductive, frisky, psychotically enhanced cats betray vestigial memories of their former lives as humans; in luxury and squalor, they lounge around, show their tempers, display the sexual parts of the bodies they used to inhabit. Odd couplings and trios adorn the pages of this book, and the stories and texts Rollman celebrates take an equally askew view of the world. Group Shows 2008 Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding - Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA 2004 REBUS - Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 2001 Third Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection - LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA Chelsea Rising - CAC - Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA Fresh - The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection 1998-2000 - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY 2000 Of the Moment - Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Collections USA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA