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| Miranda Maher | |
I moved to Brooklyn, New York shortly after receiving my MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1990. Before that I lived in Providence while working on my BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. And before that I lived in Kansas, Indiana, New York, Florida, North Carolina, back to Kansas, Virginia, Washington DC, Heidelberg, Munich, Los Angeles, and back to Washington DC. Nomad? Nomad. |
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| About the Artist | |
I'm fascinated by the blind spots in our cultural psyche that cause our errors and idiosyncrasies (yet they continue, unexamined and uncorrected). This interest has drawn me to explore many themes from murder and war to epistemology and language. |
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Birdness Series No. 2 - Small
2005 |
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| A species’ wingspan and wing speed in beats-per-second is combined to invent a more experiential way to draw bird flight. ...One that conveys the effort as well as the power. Another series, "Birdness Series No. 1" uses the same elements to present the flight of 20 Hummingbird species |
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from "Betty" Series
2005 |
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| Her presence and particularity transcend species, even while she is being so very feline. This cat only reveals herself to me: She hides when anyone else is around, but is my devoted shadow. She shares the feline love of bags and is photographed here reveling in a net bag that covers her, while letting her see and breathe (something her paper and plastic bags don't do).
These photographs evidence something inexplicable I hope we all possess in some measure. ...Perhaps it's just the unselfconscious enjoyment of consciousness. |
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Oneiric Oology
2006 |
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| Oneiric Oology explores our ambivalent love-affair with dreams. Sometimes they seem like small containers of wisdom/poetry/ information which reveal our unconscious to others, to ourselves.
Other times we see them as doorways to other realities: to the collective unconscious and beyond. Inevitably, they carry a heavy responsibility for such ephemeral little narratives. Can these exquisite fragments survive analysis and interpretation? Can they really give us what we need from them? The neo-Freudian analyst in me wants to dissect them and display their hidden meaning. The poet in me wants to leave the bizarre delicacy of the images undisturbed. |
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Internal Difference, --where the Meanings are
2007 |
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| 250 yards of cotton cheesecloth dotted with heat-transferred inkjet photographs stream down the two story oval staircase, only lit by entering sunlight. Texts lure visitors up the stairs where they encounter audio of Emily Dickinson’s poetry read in contemporary voice. Simple elements combine to explore E.D.’s power and influence as an absent presence in her time and ours.
E.D.’s poetry read by: Barbara Henning
Technical Design Assistance: R.B. Stein |
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Dreams of Flying
2006 |
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| A dim, soft environment, white cotton, feathers (in the pillows, on the floor) and the sound of wings fluttering at the edge of awareness evoke metaphors of birds and memories of sleep to conjure dreams of being a bird rather than the super-human flight commonly experienced. |
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Home Improvement 2
2007 |
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| This series of nine objects combines bird nests and paper ribbons printed with the logos of various contemporary design houses known for their luxury apparel. The series pokes fun at our consumer culture values by “improving” the delicately crafted bird nests with the cache of designer labels. The nests are all abandoned by various North American species (no one was evicted from their little home for the sake of this work). The nests are displayed on thin wood shelves that echo each one’s specific shape. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Some venues that have shown my work: Wave Hill, Sara Tecchia Gallery, Geborgen Kamer (Netherlands), The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, White Columns, The Drawing Center, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery and Pierogi's Flat Files. I have also shown work at Kunstbunker in Nuremberg, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Bronx Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. | |
| Future shows | |
| I will have work in several exhibitions in the near future. Please add your email to my announcement list to receive the details when they're available. | |
| Website: www.miranda-maher.com | |
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