The video calls attention to its "magical" ability to transform masked actors into bitchy models, costumes into couture, and props into works of art as, despite the idyllic setting, a cast of self-involved "beautiful people" perform a dystopian fable of social inaction. Situated in an adjacent gallery, Circle Sculpture, 2003, is a mod painted partition of open circles with reflective foil surrounding each void. It appears in the video as a prop and as a transition/partition between shots. Education
1999 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1996 Akademiebrief at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf
1994 Master Student, Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (MFA)
Awards
1997 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)/ Fulbright, Yearlong Fellowship to study in the US Förderpreis des Ruhrpreises für Kunst und Wissenschaft der Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr (prize for emerging artists)
1998 Resident at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah
2000 Tirana Biennale 1, interview with Paul Quiñones Bruce Hainley, Artforum, April
Julie Deamer, Flashart, March/April I-D Magazine, The Gallery Issue Malik Gaines, Art and Text, May Malik Gaines, essay about the show at the Guggenheim Gallery of the Chapman University
Doug Harvey, LA Weekly, November 26 - December 2 David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, July 30 Great God Pan, number thirteen, publication of drawings Christopher Smith, The Salt Lake Tribune, July
2001 Matthew Coolidge, CLUI Newsletter
2002 Martin Pesch, Frieze, November
The frankly decorative masks are on display too, but they're in the same room as the video, where they serve to heighten the tension between sculpture and prop. (Is a mask supposed to be looked at or through?) Constructed from earthy green and rust orange paper, as well as cardboard, foil, felt, and a few sets of eyeballs lifted from fashion magazines, the masks are kooky yet uncannily familiar, suggesting the ambitions of rainy day craft projects.
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