Watson was born and raised in Aberdeen. His work comes into being through emphasis on traditional processes such as those employed by Scotland’s artisans: shipwrights, carpenters, blacksmiths, engineers, toolmakers, printers and builders. The finished works have a dialogue not only with the history of art but with a social history and history of ideas.
He gathers [...]
Over three decades Esther Shalev-Gerz has consistently performed a process of unravelling particularities in order to reflect on the ways in which the generalities of history and memory are constructed. Working with a specific place, a certain moment in history, an urgent question, or a shared experience that resonates through history, Shalev-Gerz mines the personal [...]
Kirstine Roepstorff belongs to a young generation of artists who are working in a novel way with the technique of collage. Using this medium she has developed an unusual visual language, which she transposes into space-consuming installations, objects and sculptures in order to investigate cultural contexts and trigger new narratives. In a manner that is [...]
Overflow, 2006
Image and text copied from natashakidd.com
“Situated within an extended language of painting, my work has continually involved the production of painting machines. What I find most compelling in the process of painting is the action or event. The machines come out of an ambition to make this visible. Over time the roles and functions [...]
Eyecode, 2007
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Eyecode (Golan Levin, 2007) is an interactive installation whose display is wholly constructed from its own history of being viewed. By means of a hidden camera, the system records and replays brief video clips of its viewers’ eyes. Each clip is articulated by the duration between two of the viewer’s [...]
Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?
Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career as a teenager, writing and directing plays. July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in [...]
The Painted Room
Dorosz’ three-dimensional works exist somewhere between painting and installation. Blobs of paint hung with monofilament act in concert to create a three dimensional representation.
Regarding the above work, Dorosz writes:
“The Painted Room is a three-dimensional recreation of my parent’s living room made out of splotches of acrylic paint on hung monofilament…growing up as the [...]
Catherine D’Ignazio and the Institute for Infinitely Small Things
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D’Ignazio’s work is generally research-oriented and often collaborative. She has founded both iKatun, an artist-run non-profit with the mission of “present[ing] contemporary art that fosters public engagement in the politics of information”, and The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, an artist collaborative.
Links:
http://www.ikatun.org/kanarinka/
http://www.ikatun.com/
http://www.ikatun.com/institute/infinitelysmallthings/
Wangechi Mutu (b.1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist who lives and works in New York. She moved to New York in the 1990s to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union (BFA, 1996), and Yale University (MFA, 2000).[1]
She creates painted and collaged images of female figures, first painting outline images on PET film, then [...]