In The Breathers, 1984–1986, a series of drawings and paintings on paper and canvas, I was looking for a representation of a human being at its purest and most primal level, a sense of the self stripped of culture and relations, stripped to the level of breathing. This was my first experience of using a text—Rilke’s Duino […]
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Mitosis (Three Stages), 1989 – 1990, grew directly out of the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boat (1988-89) installations using shaped canvases stapled directly to the walls of my studio, incorporating other objects and original text. In the Mitosis series, I used the process of cellular division as a metaphor to describe in an ironic, coded way “the process of
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“Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boat,” 1988-1989 My earliest installation series, entitled “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boat”— which combined painted canvases in the shape of sails; rope; found objects; and text—was developed during an artist-in-residency fellowship at Altos De Chavon in the Dominican Republic, in 1987. The tenuous rigging of
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In 2003/2004, A. M. Hoch was commissioned by the Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, California, to create an interdisciplinary installation to launch their 2004 season, resulting in the production of an interactive family portrait entitled Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells—an unsettling portrayal of the multitude of perspectives, often conflicting, of one family’s history. The script
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“Few cities in Italy have undergone such a deep metamorphosis as Bologna over the years: from a ‘water city’, it has gradually evolved into a ‘land city’. Few visitors today would think that in the past centuries it was known as Little Venice. . . .” —Discovering Bologna and Its Waters, by Cecilia Ugolini Since the
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interstices, 2002 “interstices” was a site-specific installation for the Alice Austen Museum, sponsored by The Newhouse Center for Art in New York, as part of a large international exhibition in New York City. In 2001, More than two dozen artists from around the world were invited to create art that related in some way to
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