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| lauren kalman |
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I was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio in 1980 and grew up with my parents, an industrial designer and photographer, and younger brother. I completed my MFA in Art, from the Ohio State University and received my BFA, with a focus in metals, from Massachusetts College of Art. My professional experience includes employment at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
I have a strong interest in education, which has lead me to teach at several nonprofit centers including the Indian Church Village Artisan Center in Indian Church, Belize. I am currently a Part-Time Professor at Brown University in Providence, RI. Recently I have held the position of Assistant Professor, 3D Coordinator, and 4D Co-coordinator, in the Fine Arts Department, at Watkins College of Art and Design in Nashville, TN. I enjoy traveling and cross-cultural communication and have had the opportunity to travel with my art on several occasions.
I hope to use my art to affect social thought. By creating objects of adornment that are unconventional in their application to the body I am questioning traditional values. In making my work I have become more aware of the values I ascribe to my body and the objects used to adorn it. Through my work, I hope to communicate alternative thought about material worth, social custom, and the body.
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Much of my work takes the form of installations comprised of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment, dress, and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. The format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body.
The imaged body iconizes the human form. The imaged body denies physicality; it is complete, a continuous surface, and an infallible skin. It preaches the virtues of visually perceptible self-perfection. Imaged bodies are idols to model the self.
But the physical body is both transgressive and can be transgressed. It spills, tears, infects, expands and contracts through the skin. Our subconscious self can also penetrate the controlled façade. In spite of our conscious desire to emulate iconic ideals our personality quarks, flaws, and social deviations twitch their way to visibility.
As a model for the physical body the image is deceptive. Imaged bodies are designed, manipulated and static, qualities that the living human form resists. Attempts to emulated images are often futile. We rarely achieve the perfect body, balance socially inscribed gender rolls with capitalistic career goals, or obtain the advertised promise of unadulterated happiness.
The objects alongside imaged bodies become inextricably connected to the body. In the case of jewelry the brilliance, indelibility and unoxidizing surface of gold has come the signify beauty, purity, and immortality. I feel these qualities also apply to commodity and fashion objects. This link is strengthened by its presence in images of idealized bodies. To appropriate these qualities gold, for example, is purchased and is applied to individual’s body. This reflects a desire to amend the imperfections and impermanence of the physical human form through the display talismanic commodities. |
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Hard Wear (Tongue Gilding)
2006 23x34 |
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Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location. |
Hard Wear (Canal Cap)
2006 23x30 |
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Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location. |
Hard Wear (Aural, Oral, Digital Gems)
2006 each 23x32 |
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Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location. |
Hard Wear (main space and detail: Oral Rims)
2006 variable, and 4x4x4 |
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Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location. |
Hard Wear (Oral Rims)
2006 loop, 8x12x4 |
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Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location. |
Hard Wear
2006 10 min |
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Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location. |
Corpus, Figure, Skate
2008 Varaible. As imaged: 18x6 |
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Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality. |
Corpus, Figure, Skate (stills from HD video Figure)
2008 loop, 12x19x4 |
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This video is mounted on the ceiling above the viewer. The figure slowly rotates though her legs and the skates do not move. As the figure spins the material of her dress fades between white cotton, lead, and meat. The video is overexposed causing the white dress to blend with the background erasing the torso.
Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality
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Corpus, Figure, Skate (stills from HD video Skate)
2008 loop, 8x12x4 |
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In this video the figure rotates slowly her body and facial expression aside from blinking remains unchanging. The movement is slightly off from the movement expected from a roller-skating pirouette. The video is overexposed causing the white dress to blend with the background erasing the torso.
Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality |
Corpus, Figure, Skate
2008 Varaible. As imaged: 18x6 |
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This image shows the third video of the installation embedded into the padded walls of the space as well as the pleated fabric that mimics the pleated dresses in the videos.
Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality. |
Corpus, Figure, Skate
2008 Bed ~36x48x16 |
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The lead on these objects is pleated to mimic the pleats in the dresses in the videos.
Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality |
Projection (Ring)
2008 30x40 |
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Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body. |
Projection (Necklace)
2008 30x40 |
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Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body. |
Projection (Earring)
2008 30x40 |
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Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body. |
Projection (Bracelet)
2008 30x40 |
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Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body. |
Projection (with detail of furniture)
2008 variable |
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The furniture is coated in a rubber skin and presents growths that are similar to the gold object that each displays.
Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body. |
Projection (Bracelet)
2008 loop |
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In the videos the figure rotates slowly as she displays her jewels. Her body moves in and out of perception ans she fades into the underexposed background.
Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body. |
Projection (Earring)
2008 loop |
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In the videos the figure rotates slowly as she displays her jewels. Her body moves in and out of perception ans she fades into the underexposed background.
Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body. |
Hard Wear (video corridor and detail of Tongue Gilding)
2006 variable, loop, 7x11x4" |
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Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location. |
Hard Wear (Oral Rims)
2006 ink jet print 23x34 |
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Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location. |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
EDUCATION
2006 The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
M.F.A.
Major: Art
Area: Art and Technology
Additional course work: Comparative Cultural Studies, Sculpture
2002 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
B.F.A. (Departmental Honors)
Major: Fine Arts 3D
Area: Metals
Additional course work: Glass, Sculpture
REPRESENTATION
Sienna Gallery, Lenox MA
siennagallery.com
SOLO EXHIBITS
2008 Hard Wear, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA.
2008 Corpus, Figure, Skate, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
2008 A Pretty Little Trick, Window into Sculpture Series, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2007 Hard Wear, Recoleta Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
(In conjunction with the 6th Encuentro, Corpoliticas/Body Politics in the Americas, an international conference hosted by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics)
(Catalogue)
(internet archive, http://hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/2007/eng/index.html )
(documentary film)
2007 Dress Up; Dress Down, Installation, Medicine Factory, Memphis, TN
2006 Hard Wear, Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
(M.F.A. thesis exhibition)
2003 Memento Mori, Extension Gallery, Mercerville, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITS
2008 Body Prop, University Of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA
2008 SOFA New York. Park Ave. Armory. New York, NY
With Sienna Gallery (Lennox, MA)
2008 Bridge Art Fair, New York. The Waterfront. New York, NY
With Sienna Gallery (Lennox, MA)
2008 Co-Laboratory. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
(In conjunction with the Annual Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference)
Curator: Sondra Sherman
2007 In Situ. Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. MA
Curator: Joe Wood
(In conjunction with the symposium, Parallax, a one-day conference comparing two separate bodies of work In Situ and Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains.)
(Conference website: http://babel.massart.edu/metals/parallax/index.html)
(CD catalogue)
2007 Southern 60 Second Video Festival. A collaborative project between Fugitive
Projects and Harmony Landing, Nashville, TN
August 5, 2007.Boathouse Cinema, Portland, OR
July 13, 14, 2007. The State of Mantua Music and Arts Festival. Mantua, Ireland
May 12, 2005. Kurze Filme. Basel, Switzerland
2007 Alumni Invitational Exhibition, Metals Department, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2007 Resurfacing, Haskett Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
(In conjunction with the symposium, Technology Expanding the Horizon: A Reinterpretation & Investigation of the Landscape)
2007 On a Pedestal off the Wall, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
Curator: Don Harvey
2006 Misdemeanor, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2006 Parameters of Preciousness, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Curator: Kathleen Kamal
2006 Coming Into View, Yann Woolley's Home, Chicago, IL
Heidi Lowe- The Jewelry Studio, Rehoboth Beach, DE
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
(in conjunction with the Annual Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference)
Curators: Mary Pearse and Sakurako Shimizu
(catalogue, online catalogue www.comingintoview.net)
2006 Fergus Scholarship Award Exhibition, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
(Catalogue)
2005 Edith Fergus/ Gilmore Memorial Scholarship Exhibition, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
(Catalogue)
2005 Huston Center for Contemporary Craft, Huston, TX
2004 Metal and Otherwise, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Curator: Sandie Zilker
(in conjunction with the Annual Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference)
2004 Mercer County Artists, Mercer County College, Mercerville, NJ
2003 Evocative Objects, Banister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Curator: Sondra Sherman
(catalogue)
2003 Tea Pot Redefined, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, MA.
(at SOFA Chicago)
2003 M~Urge, Gallery M, Cleveland, OH
2003 Untitled, Extension Gallery, Mercerville, NJ
2003 Vive L’Atelier, 3rd Street Gallery on 2nd, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Sculpture at Noble Horizons, Noble Horizons, Salisbury, CT
(awarded Best in Show)
2003 Ellarslie Open, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
2003 A Community of Artists, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
2002 Eligius, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
(B.F.A. thesis exhibition)
2002 Contemporary IV, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
(catalogue)
2002 24th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
2001 Metal Departures, Emerson Gallery, St. Louis Artist’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juror: Pat Flynn
(sponsored by the Society for Midwest Metalsmiths)
2001 Unnatural Selections, Installation Station, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
ARTICLES
2008 “cabinet de curiosite: Lauren Kalman” Alessia Semeraro. Il giornale agc, Issue 2
http://www.agc-it.org/magazine.html
2008 “The Jewels of Sienna” Seth Kaplan. Nonstarvingartist.com March 28.2008
http://www.nonstarvingartists.com/News/the-jewels-of-sienna
2008 “Bridge and Tunnel” Karen Bookatz. Style.com. March 31, 2008
http://www.style.com/trends/blogs/style_file/2008/03/bridge-and-tunn.html
2008 “Art Fairs in New York” Melena Ryzik. UrbanEye. The New York Times online.
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f1f7cc804cd4c6c91ff2cf82ccc8c7d50c060b59
2008 “Something Amiss”. Maria Browning. Nashville Scene. February 8, 2008
(exhibition review)
2008 “Trick or Treat.” Douglas Max Utter. Cleveland Free Times. February 6, 2008
(exhibition review)
2008 Capsule Reviews. Theresa Bembnister. Cleveland Scene. January 23, 2008
(exhibition review)
2008 “Medicine Ball.” Marge Perko. Cleveland Scene. January 2003
(exhibition review)
2008 “Human beauty, vulnerability collide in Nashville artist's work.” Jonathan Marx. The Tennessean. January 2008
(exhibition preview)
2007 “Reviews”, Namita Wiggers. Metalsmith Magazine. Vol 27 no 5
(exhibition review)
2007 “Cosmonauts”, Carol Knowles. Memphis Flyer. June 21, 2007
(exhibition review)
2006 “Discomfort Levels”. Michael Gill. Cleveland Free Times. December 20, 2006
(exhibition review)
2006 “Jewelry, in Theory”. Bob Keefer. The Register-Guard. December 14, 2006
(exhibition review)
2006 Adornment Tongue and Adornment Lips, “Jewels Gone Wild”. Suzi Steffen. Eugene Weekly. November, 30, 2006
(exhibition review)
2006 “Coming into View”. Sakurako Shimizu. www.comingintoview.net (curatorial statement)
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| 未来的展览 |
February 2009
Solo Exhibition: TBA
Sewanee: The University of the South
University Art Gallery
Sewanee, TN
Phone: (931) 598-1223
April 2009
3rd – Friday, tentative date
Lecture Course: Body Adornment
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, tentative times
Rhode Island School of Design
Continuing Education Department
Providence, RI
Visit RISD Continuing Ed for more information and costs: http://www.risd.edu/conted.cfm
May 1 to June 28, 2009
Invitational Exhibition:RE/ACTIONS
Craft Alliance, St Louis,MO
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