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 Chris Ballantyne's paintings, drawings and sculptural installations are an examination of suburban space. Ballantyne's inspiration is drawn from the universalities of his different neighborhood homes. Ideas of land boundaries, manipulated space and economic design are developed out of observations from a variety of urban and rural settings. Ballantyne's works are focused on architecture and landscape design and often explore complex relationships between individuals and their surroundings. Ballantyne received his M.F.A. in painting and drawing from the San Francisco Art Institute. Recent exhibitions include a self-titled show with the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, Tenn., and "Dream of New Jersey" at the DCKT Contemporary in New York. The artist has exhibited in Los Angeles and Berlin with the Peres-Projects, and, last year, he was featured in the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, Calif. | |||
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 In a recent exhibition with the Bellwether Gallery, photographer Tanyth Berkeley presented three major bodies of work -- "The Fugitive," "The Muse" and "The Frequency" -- all capturing intimate images of individuals. As with previous series, the artist examines aspects of trangendered women, albinos, street performers and anonymous people. Berkeley's images are taken in both a snapshot and staged format, and, although the artist captures a wide variety of images, they all embody a shockingly humanist perspective. Ideas of anonymity, individuality and the desire to be noticed through expression are often present in the artist's work. Berkeley is a recent M.F.A. graduate of Columbia University School of the Arts (2004) and attended the School of the Visual Arts (SVA) in New York (1999). This fall, Berkeley will be included in a three-person exhibition, titled "New Photography," at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). | |||
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 New York-based sculptor Aaron Spangler creates dark Romanesque-styled wood relief sculptures that marry two and three dimensional qualities. Each work is carved in maple and then painted with black gesso that is covered in powdered graphite. The artist often portrays rural and suburban landscapes of the American Midwest, some of which contain the images of this own home in Minnesota. Juxtaposed within these would be typical scenes that are images of militias, bunkers and other subversive yet starkly political references. Spangler has recently exhibited with Kantor/Feuer Gallery in Los Angeles and Zach Feuer Gallery in New York. The artist has appeared in several reviews, including two with The New York Times, and he received Best Single-Artist Show by Citypages for his exhibition with the Soap Factory in Minneapolis (2002). | |||
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 Argentinean artist Marcelo Pombo creates large, colorful paintings that are rooted in a surrealist vocabulary and contain abstracted landscapes, architecture and figurative elements. The artist approaches his paint application through pointillism, employing thousands of small dots to assemble this primitive yet deliberate imagery. Pombo, who currently lives and works in Buenos Aires, is a prominent artistic figure within South American contemporary art. He has exhibited in countless museums and cultural centers on the continent, including, "Antologia de Dibujos" with Fundacion Vox in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, and "Dibujos" with the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas in Buenos Aires, Argentina. U.S. exhibitions include shows with the Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif., and the Marvelli Gallery in New York, which was reviewed by The New York Times. | |||
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 Artist Francis Upritchard's work titled "Save Yourself" seems to be a constructed reference to b-grade movies, in which the artist has unearthed an ancient tomb below the gallery that contains a mummified figure. However scary this scenario would seem, the mummy is constructed with rags and a glass eye and vibrates, powered by an electric cord visible on the floor. Upritchard derives many of her images and objects from the archived collections of the Pitt River Museum and the Wellcome Collection. Using dark and haunting metaphors, the artist is able to transform her make shift objects that often contain faux-clay pots, medical instruments and animal heads into relics of natural history or odd tourist shop memorabilia. Upritchard was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions included works with the Andrea Rosen Gallery and Salon 94, both in New York. The artist has also completed an artist in residence with the Camden Arts Centre in London and has exhibited in New Zealand with the Ivan Anthony Gallery and Artspace in Auckland. | |||
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 Brooklyn-based realist painter David Jon Kassan creates work grounded in a formalist style that captures elements of the figure and multi-layered, textured surfaces. While his subject matter varies, the artist primarily follows the philosophies of the Ashcan School of American Realists. Kassan often mixes the attention of the figure with the surrounding surfaces to create works that simultaneously reference Abstract Expressionism and traditional portraiture. The artist attended the Arts Students League of New York, the British Institute of Florence in Italy and is a B.F.A. graduate of Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts. This year, Kassan is exhibiting in the "Converging Passions" exhibition with Andreeva Gallery in Sante Fe and "The Los Angeles Art Show" at the Barker Hangar in the Santa Monica Airport in Los Angeles. | |||
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 Currently on view at Ace Gallery in Los Angeles is "VOOM Portraits" by artist Robert Wilson (Feb. 24-April 30). Wilson creates work that is rooted in theater and, as of recently, has been displayed through video on plasma screen televisions. Wilson has captured the images of many famous actors such as Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and William L. Pope, who is in the image above. Often, the video works move very slowly and test the patience of the viewer, which has led Wilson to be accused of disregarding his audience, while at the same time others have noted this controversy as a successful and challenging element in his work. The use of traditional theater is skewed as he emphasizes choreography and staging over the use of plot and dialogue, which has also been furthered through the artist's inventive use of sound. Wilson was born in Waco, Texas, and graduated from Pratt Institute in New York (1965), where he currently lives and works. The artist has completed three exhibitions already this year, including works with the Paula Cooper Gallery and Phillips De Pury & Company, both in New York. Wilson has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Louise T. Blouin Foundation Award (2005), the Pratt Legends Honoree and the American Innovator Award from the Japan Society in New York. | |||
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 Currently on view at the Mary Boone Gallery in both the Fifth Avenue and Chelsea locations as well as with Team Gallery in New York are works by premiere French conceptual artist Pierre Bismuth titled "One Size Fits All." The artist is known for his deconstruction of cultural products and reconstitution of material in which his subjects undergo to reveal the structures of mass media products, the mechanisms of visibility and systems of name recognition and context. At Mary Boone in Chelsea, the artist has taken the exhibition's ad in Artforum and Art in America and has blown up the image to a mass scale in order to have the gallery present the magazine as opposed to the normal construct of having the magazine present the gallery. Even the works of other gallery ads are presented on the back and titled "The Flip Side of My Work." Bismuth lives and works in London and Brussels. Last year, the artist exhibited works at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and with Galerie Erna Hecey and Galerie Jan Mot in Brussels. Bismuth was recently featured in "Space Redefined in Chelsea" in the Art Review section of The New York Times. | |||
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 The paintings of the Clayton Brothers, Rob and Christian, take root in the artists' immediate environment, referencing local business, neighborhood characters, overheard conversations and local signs that exist outside of the artists' California-based studio. Dense with information, these fractured narratives come to life through a unique collaborative process. The brothers rarely work on the same canvas at one time or even discuss the work while it's being created; instead they work through improvisation, adding to, editing and reconstructing the work as it develops through their independent approaches. The artists' co-creation is completed without ego and is thoroughly organic, allowing the final production to be ambiguous and developed directly from the employed process. Both brothers are graduates of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. The Clayton Brothers have exhibited in numerous national solo shows including "Wishy Washy" at the Bellwether Gallery in New York (2006) and "I Come From Here" at the Mackey Gallery in Houston, Texas (2004). The artists have also exhibited in several exhibitions with the La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, such as "Six Foot Seven" (2003), "Candy Lackey" (2002) and "Lucky 13" (1995). | |||
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 "Secrets and Cymbals, Smoke and Scissors (My Friend Dash's Wall in the Future)" is work by conceptual artist Dan Colen that is a life-size recreation of the interior wall of a friend. In Colen's version, each element attached to the wall -- every sticker, newspaper, photo and hand-written note -- has been illusionistically painted by the artist. Colen extends this process of painting into other works that equally underscore value in the mundane and familiar through his painstakingly realist application. Colen is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (2001). Recently, the artist exhibited "No Me" with the Peres Projects in Berlin and the work above with the Deitch Projects in New York. Notable group exhibitions include "Fantastic Politics" at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway, and USA Today at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. | |||
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 Photographer Rhona Bitner has spent the past 15 years of her career observing and capturing the performer and the performance space. Though the artist documents the space, the photos are far from documentary. In her new body of work titled "STAGE," Bitner captures the silent moments just before and directly after someone appears on the stage. The space becomes filled with anticipation, expectation or the memory of the performed act. The dialogue between the viewer and the act is further challenged as it is being seen through still photography, complicating the relationship between the viewer and the physical space within each image. Bitner lives and works in New York and Paris. She exhibits work in the U.S. with the CRG Gallery in New York and the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston. From March 8 to May 18, the artist is exhibiting with Galerie Xippas in Athens, Greece, and last year she exhibited works with Blondeau Fine Art (BFAS) in Geneva, Switzerland. Bitner received a fellowship from the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming twice (1993, 2002) and has been reviewed by ARTnews (March 2006) and appeared in an article with the Boston Globe (Dec. 8, 2005). | |||
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 The paintings of artist Jim Gaylord push the boundaries of identified space and the ambiguity of object relation. Referencing elements of traditional surrealism, Gaylord updates his method of creation by distilling information from film stills. Using several layers of transparent film, the artist is able to render specific elements in the found image that reduces the still down to spatial planes, shadows and general landscape and architectural structures. The process works as a visual filter, allowing Gaylord the opportunity to shift the story of the film, still offering even greater narrative possibilities and meaning. Gaylord received his degree in film from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. He has received both a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant and the Eisner Award in Art Practice from UC Berkeley. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include "I Thought You Were Waving at Me" with the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco and "Jim Gaylord & Eric Hongisto" at the PS 122 Gallery in New York. | |||
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 Nigel Cooke's paintings lie somewhere in between fantasy and reality, often employing the urban landscape to provide grounding for surreal scenes executed in the most delicate palette. Cooke's paintings rely heavily on traditional techniques in oil that allows for the imagery to subtly mimic illustration and surrealist landscapes. The everyday details in each painting leaves the image somewhere in between recognizable and foreign. Since the completion of his doctorate from Goldsmith's College in London in 2004, Cooke has exhibited with some of the most internationally prestigious galleries. After graduation, Cooke showed with the South London Gallery (2006), the Tate London (2004), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas (2006) and the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York (2004). There have been several reviews of his work with Art Review as well as an article in ArtForum. | |||
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 The enigmatic photographs of William Hundley spring to life with dynamic movement and weightlessness. These photos that appear to be digitally manipulated are actually carefully staged by the photographer using simple fabric covers and models. Hundley wraps each figure in fabric and then instructs the model to leap into the air, which causes the mass to appear floating, effortlessly. The images call into question issues of authenticity and the suspension of belief. Hundley is a graduate of Texas State University in San Marcos and has exhibited in numerous Texas-based galleries including the Else Madsen Gallery in Austin. Hundley has also participated in notable group shows such as "Outside In" with Okay Mountain in Austin and "Malleability, Transparency, Solubility -- Charting New Territory with Digital Media" at the Landmark Galleries at the Texas Tech School of Art in Lubbock, TX. Currently, Hundley is exhibiting in the Texas Biennial held at the Bolm Studios in Austin for which he has received the Juror's Choice Award. | |||
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 Creating work in the category of Chinese contemporary art termed "Political Pop," artist Wang Guangyi's paintings at once reference propaganda images from the Cultural Revolution and imagery of contemporary popular culture. The vast amount of social images brought forth through the Maoist Regime is synthesized through these works to offer a critique of the Cultural Revolution historically and ideologically. This critique is furthered by the artist's use of socially appropriated imagery of the Chinese people, signifying the middle-class within China's expansive population, economy and governmental policy. Guangyi was born in Harbin, China, and currently lives and works in Beijing. Recent solo exhibitions include works with the Galerie ARARIO in Seoul, Korea, and Galerie Urs Meile in Lucerne, Switzerland. The artist has also exhibited with Galerie Enrico Navarra in Paris and with Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong, China. Guangyi was featured in an exhibition and article with the ShanghART Gallery in Shanghai, China. | |||
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 Using a variety of materials, the eclectic sculptures of artist Elliott Hundley bring painterly qualities into three dimensions. The artist employs many different elements into his collaged sculptures, including magazines, found objects and family photos, along with pieces of fabric and thread all held together with pins and twist ties. His seemingly formal considerations dissipate as the viewer becomes closer to the work, revealing layers of information united by the artist's laborious creative process. The density of each sculpture leads to the constant discovery of new images that offer endless possibilities of narrative and meaning. Last year, Hundley exhibited with the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and was also included in "LAXed: Paintings from the Other Side" at the Peres Projects in Berlin. Additional group exhibitions include, "Desired Constellations" with the Daniel Reich Gallery and "Curvaceous" at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, both in New York City. | |||
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 Mark Fairnington paints images that attempt to classify the natural world. His work focuses primarily on the human need to categorize and group everything in our surroundings, addressing both the need to record as well as the need to collect. Many of his images depict animals, especially birds and insects, prepared for documentation and dissection. The paintings reference still-life images of the 16th and 17th centuries, both through narrative and historical evaluations. These expanded interpretations of the still-life are further defined by Fairnington's ability to achieve true-to-life renderings of animals with traditional painting techniques, while also commenting on the methods of classification. Fairnington graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art and exhibits his work with Fred-London. Other recent exhibitions include works with Galerie Peter Zimmermann in Frankfurt (2005), the Volta Show (2003) and Ace Gallery in Los Angeles (2000). The artist also has an exhibition planned with the Robert Miller Gallery in New York (2007). | |||
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 Investigating the nature of truth as told through the photographic lens, artist Duncan Ganley documents experience though a fictional language. The artist is currently exhibiting "midnight, mid-Atlantic," a body of work that was produced during an artist in residence in Iceland, on view now at the Inman Gallery in Houston. Ganley has assumed the role of a researcher, developing a documentary, though completely fictional, about a movie director, his actors and his unfinished movie. Through these fictional narratives, Ganley places the viewer in a position to question the truth of the documentary and thus the truth of all lens-based media. About these ideas, Ganley says: "...the ability of technology to intervene in the veracity of the image, as well as the integrity of the location being photographed, reveal the shifting terms on which our understanding of historical significance (both personal and cultural) through the photographic image is based. Are the histories we learn just as 'authentic' as the fiction we see?" Ganley was born in the UK and received his MFA from Edinburgh College of Art. The artist has exhibited "Endless Filmset 2" with the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota, and "Opening Shot/End Titles" with Cornerhouse in Manchester, England. Ganley is currently a professor of photography at the Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas. | |||
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 Recent works by premiere Bay Area artist Deborah Oropallo will be on view this season at the de Young Museum in San Francisco from March 17-Sept. 16. "Guise" is a new series of large-scale digital prints that continue the artist's interest in computer-manipulated imagery. These hybrid portraits appropriate seductive images of women in a variety of contemporary costumes from Internet sources, coupled with 17th-and 18th-century portrait paintings of men in power and of nobility. Oropallo draws striking parallels between the two unlikely sources by focusing on seduction and power through gesture and pose. The artist layers each image, causing them to be revealed simultaneously, drawing connections through stance, gesture and attire. This re-contextualization brings forth issues of gender, fantasy, power and sexuality. Recent museum exhibitions for Oropallo include works with the Greenville Museum of Art in North Carolina, the San Jose Museum of Art in California and the Boise Art Museum in Idaho. Oropallo is also represented by the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, Scott White Contemporary in San Diego and the Gail Severn Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho. Select Deborah Oropallo to view a previous DailyServing entry. | |||
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 The paintings of New York-based artist Angela Fraleigh question the social issues of beauty, class and gender. Ambiguous figures occupy space bound in tension as they struggle for power within their surrounding environments. The artist's formal process of painting allows the figures to be dominated by a wash of seductive intensity that captures the passion of her subjects. "If not, winter" is the title of a current exhibition that features four large-scale paintings and several figurative watercolors at the James Harris Gallery in Seattle. Fraleigh is a graduate of both the Yale University School of Art (MFA, 2003) and Boston University (BFA, 1998). The artist was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2005) and received the Eliza Randall Prize at the Glassell School of Art (2004, 2005) in Houston, Texas. | |||
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 The photography of Lynne Cohen documents large empty spaces that imply human presence through objects and environments rather than from physical being. Spaces such as classrooms, work places, spas, laboratories and libraries are often used in Cohen's found sets, each room isolated and full of psychological and narrative possibilities. The photographs identify institutionalized spaces that are saturated with information about the humans who have occupied them. Recent exhibitions for the artist include "Mixed Messages" at Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York, and Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf in Frankfurt, Germany. Cohen has completed artist residences with Light Work at Syracuse University (1995), the Academie Sint Joost in Breda, Netherlands (1999, 2000), and the Hoger Instituut voor Schone in Kunst (HISK), Antwerp (2000, 2001). In 2002, the artist was featured in ArtForum for her exhibition with the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. | |||
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 Michael Salter is an artist who synthesizes the constant flow of images from contemporary culture into a new visual language. Salter creates multi-disciplinary work that challenges mass media through reductive and iconic imagery. The artist has begun to create installations of oversized and miniature robots out of cardboard boxes and Styrofoam. Salter re-contextualizes the materials, objects and images employed in his installations to offer new meanings and sensations for the viewer. Salter is currently a professor of digital arts at the University of Oregon and is a MFA graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Salter has helped to develop the Lump Gallery/Projects in Raleigh, N.C., an art space that promotes innovative conceptual art from emerging artists. In 2004, the artist had his first major museum exhibition with Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, N.C. Salter has exhibited with the Black Market Gallery in Los Angeles and has been featured in magazines such as Arkitip and Lodown. | |||
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 Referencing promotional imagery used by commercial billboards to sell goods through sex and desire, Chinese artist Feng Zhengjie creates large-scale paintings as a critique on the principles of capitalism. The artist's work reduces the overt content usually found in such advertisements, allowing a streamlined version of temptation to exist without a specific product. The essence of desire is manifested through the blank-eyed ethnically ambiguous women who graphically dominate each work. Zhengjie currently lives and works in Beijing, China, and is a graduate of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Sichuan Province, China. The artist has been included by the Saatchi Gallery in London and has exhibited in other notable exhibitions, including works at the National Museum of Art in Kaunas, Lithuania, and with Xin Dong CHENG's Space for International Contemporary Art in Beijing, China. | |||
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 Dusseldorf-based artist Katharina Grosse creates dominatingly formalist paintings on a range of surfaces, such as aluminum, paper, canvas and existing architectural structures. Grosse's works are energetic and are not bound to a particular space but travel from walls to floors to ceilings, referencing elements of Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field painting. Often, piles of rumble on the gallery floor will be saturated with color, continuing the painting to a three-dimensional space. All of the artist's paintings are site-specific and are rendered with sprayed paint. She will frequently block areas of the surface while painting to underscore negative space and further dictate form. Grosse's recent exhibitions include installations at the De Appel in Amsterdam and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The artist has also exhibited with White Cube in London and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In 2000, Grosse was chosen for the distinguished Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Award for young artists. | |||
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 The sculptures of artist Christian Maychack inhabit pre-existing architectural structures and animate otherwise stationary objects. The sculptures either take place as an extension of a pre-existing form or are manifested from the artist's imagination. Maychack employs the visual vocabulary of three-dimensional rendering animation and uses anthropomorphic qualities to enliven each form. The work is simultaneously in a state of decomposition and growth, referencing a transformation of the object or structure's function. Maychack is an MFA graduate from San Francisco State University, and, this May, the artist will present his second solo exhibition with the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco. Last year, Maychack participated in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in California and completed an artist in residence with the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. The artist has also received a full fellowship residency from the Vermont Studio Center and has participated in a residency with Sirius Art Center in Ireland. | |||
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 "Zivildienst Kunstprojekt, Kunstprojekt Zivildienst" translates to "Social Service Art Project, Art Project Social Service" and is a new series by Canadian artist Althea Thauberger at John Connelly Presents in New York. Long periods of research in social and political developments led the artist into collaborative performances that intend to reveal a particular group consciousness and civil responsibility. Thauberger collaborates with various social groups, engaging them with exercises and meetings designed to help promote group discussion about their relevant social issues. The artist usually presents her work as video, performance or photography. Thauberger is currently a doctoral candidate in communications at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland, and is an MFA graduate of the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C. The artist has recently exhibited with Basis Voor Acuele Kunst (B.A.K.) in the Netherlands and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany. | |||
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 Tennessee-based artist Beth Edwards approaches the subject of toy dolls much like a still-life painter. The artist's interest in this subject stems from the social implications that are conceived through the dolls and the impressions that they have on children. Often, Edwards will deviate for the exact image of a particular toy and re-contextualize the work by feminizing masculine toys or vice versa. For example, Edwards altered an image of a classic Lincoln Log toy by rendering the object in a soft pastel "feminine" color palette. The artist is an MFA graduate from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana (1987), and received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia (1982). She has been featured two times in the New American Paintings catalogue (2001, 2004) and was recently featured in the exhibition "Tooth and Claw" at the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Other exhibitions include "Homegrown: Southeast" at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) and "Side by Side" at the Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tenn. | |||
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 The installation "Bride Fight" is a suspended moment in an explosion of combat between two bridal gowns. Artist E.V. Day has created a series of sculptures that challenge conventional feminine stereotypes through exploding women's garments. Installed in several locations is "G-Force," an installation with hundreds of g-strings in fighter jet formation. Each sculpture is constructed with a complex wire system used to suspend small pieces of fabrics, allowing for a stop-motion effect. Last year, Day presented "Intergalactic Installations" at Art Basel Miami with the Deitch Projects and with the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. The artist has completed commissions for NASA and has works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. | |||
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