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Bio / Statement / Resume
I was born in upstate New York in the early seventies. In the late eighties early nineties I traveled throughout the US and Europe. I moved to New York City in 1999. I derive the primary themes that I explore in my work from the influence of the urban environment here in New York City, particularly social relationships. I explore notions of the "ordinary, everyday" experiences, and the often unseen influences of our society’s underworld, hidden beneath the surface of the everyday. The ordinary and underground experiences may directly conflict but there is a direct influence nonetheless. My work amplifies the friction between the opposing extremes as they manifest themselves in ways that are vivid and visceral even if normally unseen by the naked eye.
The current series is a continuation of my earlier works that used the interaction between artist and viewer to explore social roles – both those taken on ‘voluntarily’ and those assigned to us by social forces that we are largely unaware of. By using the performance piece, video, or photographic image to bring these roles into sharper relief, I was able to induce a level of discomfort in the viewer that ultimately had a revelatory effect. The new series also uses images, in a rawer form, that explore a greater range of roles – specifically those distinguishing between creator, editor, and viewer, as well as complex issues involving spheres of control, social taboo, and gender roles.
Live Performances
2005 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, ConWorks, Seattle, WA
2005 Two Pickled Eggs, go fish gallery, NYC
2004 Co-Habitation, Tactile BOSCH, Cardiff, Wales
2002 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NYC
2002 Social Spaces, Cuchifritos, NYC (Curated by David Gibson)
2002 That Naughty Stimulata, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Welcome to The GlassWorks, Tactile BOSCH, Cardiff, Wales
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Art @ Large Video, Seattle Erotic Art Festival, ConWorks, Seattle, WA
2004 Neo-Erotiqué, Art @ Large, NYC (Curated by Grady T. Turner)
2004 The Wall of Roses, New Moon Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 Reactions, Exit Art, NYC
2001 The Rivington Arms, Rivington St, NYC
2001 O’Flangain’s Pub, Art auction to benefit WTC firefighters, EMS workers, NYC
2001 Fictive Net Porn, The Point, NYC
2001 You’re Soaking in It!, CB’s 313 gallery, NYC
2000 Summer Juried Exhibition, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Summer Juried Exhibition, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Duchamp Traveling Exhibition, Kulturbahnhof, Bremen, Germany
1999 Duchamp Traveling Exhibition, Emmanul Heller Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1999 Duchamp Traveling Exhibition,The Artist Museum, Lodz, Poland
1998 Onhe Lieve, Vrowwer Ganthuris, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998 Open Wide, Empire State College, NYC
Education
2003 MFA-Hunter College, The City University of New York NYC
1994 BFA-The College of Saint Rose, Albany NY
1991 Associate in Arts-Herkimer County Community College, Herkimer NY
Workshops
1998 Empire State Studio Program, NYC
1998 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 6 month art workshop, Amsterdam The Netherlands
Publications
2002 NY Arts Vol 1 No5 pg 34-35 Emerging Artist by Tina Henderson
2001 Artsy Magazine Vol 1 Reviews Emerging Artist:Joanna Hinksman Hoar,
Coralee Lynn Rose, Veronica Cross By Tina Henderson
2001 Greenwich Village Gazette Vol v1 No xxv1 Pretty Politi Provocateur:
Three Emerging Artist in New York by Tina Henderson
