“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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The viewer’s unwitting interaction with the family’s dynamic—and the viewer’s doubts and questions about what they are hearing—physicalize the ambiguity of human memory.
MITOSIS: FORMATION OF DAUGHTER CELLS View Work »
“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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In the Mitosis series, I used the process of cellular division as a metaphor to describe in an ironic, coded way “the process of individuation”—that is, a wry portrait of growing up in a family steeped in secrets, deceit, and denial. The image of the chromosome and references to mitosis are woven throughout these installations.
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ABOUT THIS PROJECT In 2009, having completed the text for Diary of a Young Boat, I began exploring the visual components of this piece, using discarded household objects such as mirrors, ladders, umbrellas, ropes and string in floating, multimedia pieces that incorporated the surrounding space. Ultimately, these suspended sculpture/paintings led to the Metamorfosi di una barca (2011), a
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2001-ongoing Couples—in romantic relationships or familial ones—can be as mesmerizing as swirling eddies or a car accident. The way two humans become entwined into one beautiful mess has been explored in psychology, literature, and film, but much less so in painting. Many years ago, I began an ongoing series about couples—some real, some imagined, some
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Well, I got sent home early from school today, which I always love … but this time was pretty … dramatic, you might say … It started in Social Studies, I mean History … we were discussing “geniuses” and Mrs. Rubs-Herself asked the totally boring question: “Does the genius make the times …” and then
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Grateful recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant this spring. Let’s say, terribly grateful, since at about the same time that I received notice of the award, my teeth were falling out—a whole gang of them, a veritable insurrection—so I painted on them since I had nothing else to paint on. It was a bleak period. Actually, the teeth loss was
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When I returned to New York City in 1997, after a year in Berlin, I continued to explore the themes in my interdisciplinary installation at Tacheles Kunsthaus, Berlin, called “I keep forgetting …” : that is, domestic interiors gone haywire, in which secrets are projected into the surrounding objects and space, environments where interior/psychological and exterior
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