| Ula Einstein, New York City |
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Ula Einstein is a Swiss born multi-disciplinary artist based in New York City.
Works range from intimate drawings to large scale installations using a wide variety of media. Paper is key as well as typically invisible materials and discarded forgotten materials.
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| About the Artist |
I’m engaged with building and alchemy. Alternating between the play of chance and control, composing and improvising, the process is organic and transformative.
Exploring materials and methods with a very hands-on and lo-fi approach, I embrace an economy of means to create an expansive whole. From micro to macro, there is fluctuating from particle to whole and back again.
I employ materials and tools using their innate characteristics, but also in ways which detour and extend from their original purpose.
I draw with fire, knives, thread and hot glue. My ever-shifting installations are often rooted in the exploration of physicality and immateriality. They consist of fragments made in the studio, created site-specific for exhibition
Through my meditation and deliberation on chance, control and uncertainty, my work is also further stretched by paradox: empty/full, conceal/reveal, shadow/light, pain/beauty, fracture/whole, static/movement.
The imagery produced through the forms is abstracted from a wide array of sources as diverse as molecular structure, cells, book pages, tracks, spheres, text, hieroglyphics, webs, fossils, impressions, eastern thought, architecture, synthetic design, and cave paintings.
The repetitive ritualistic work is a partial response to our culture of speed, multi-fragments, visual stimuli, and endless distractions - where I have a hard time focusing while holding the infinite complexity. These drawings are my way of contemplating and paring down accumulations. While things are changing every second, I remember our interconnectivity and am prompted to respond with an array of gestures, intimate and large, controlled and elastic, reflecting on our vastness.
http://www.galleryartist.com/ulaeinstein
http://re-title.com/ulaeinstein
www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram
http://www.art2bank.com/art-gallery/mixed-media/multidisciplinary-artist-ula-e.php
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Was, Is, and Could be
2007 mixed media installation variable |
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suspended mixed media installation - lg. detail.
Joyce Korotkin - 2007 July Critic Top Ten Picks on Saatchi site |
Renewal
2007 sculpture |
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Exhibited in Solo Exhibition: RESONANCE. This is one of (series) drawing/sculptures |
map sweep
2007 paper, fire |
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drawing with fired incense sticks |
Reverberate II
2007 ongoing drawing with fire 11" x 8.5 |
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drawing with burning incense
sticks and thread on vellum
size of a page (series) |
Hybrid Tracks
2007 Drawing/Relief 17" x 13.5" framed |
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mixed media drawing on layered
acid free papers 2007 |
Showdown Nature
2008 mixed 40" x 42" |
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fire and blade mixed media drawing on Tyvek |
New Scales
2008 mixed media installation 20" x 38" |
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fire and blade mixed media on tyvek |
Tracking their Traces
2008 drawing 29" x 18" h |
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mixed media on Tyvek |
Hybrid In(ter)ventions
2008 Drawing/Relief 20" x 28" x 4" |
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mixed media on Tyvek and Duralar |
Remains (To Be Seen)
2008 Drawing/Relief 40" x 20" |
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mixed media drawing with blades
and paint on Tyvek |
Code Meltdown
2008 Drawing/Relief 35" x 76" x 2" |
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mixed media fire and blade drawing
on Tyvek |
UnderCurrents
2008 Drawing/Relief 21" x 32" |
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Mixed Media on Tyvek |
Branding Spaces
2008 drawing |
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fire drawing, hot glue on heavy watercolor paper |
Timeless
2008 |
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drawing with fire and heat
on vegetable parchmont |
Silent Witness
2008 Drawing/Relief 18" x 30" |
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mixed media on Tyvek with gauze |
Echoes
2008 |
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mixed media installation |
Scattered Remains V
2007 |
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drawing with fire, thread,
on gauze |
Buried in the Sand
2008 installation + photography variable |
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from The Unwinding
Destiny Project -
featured artist online
Nov 2008 - Jan 2009
Griffin Museum,MA
www.griffinmuseum.org
www.griffinmuseum.org/virtual_gallery.htm |
Early Influences
2008 installation various |
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text on broken eggshells are set up as temporary installations - here underground and photographed. |
Intricacies
2008 Installation/Drawing 13' x 10' x 18" |
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2008 created this as a site specific installation, after the parts were made in the studio, in LINE, GESTURE, SPACE Jan. 22 - March 26th |
Mixed Messages
2007ongoing mixed media variable |
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partial installation shot
sold as prints too |
Ask/Ask Not
2008 installation + photography |
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installation shot of text on broken eggshells set on audio tapes 2008
temporary installations, photographed |
Who is the Messenger?
2008 |
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temporary installation of text based eggshells ©Ula Einstein 2008 |
Collapsed
2009 sculpture/installation variable |
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paper, fire, wire |
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| Education and biography |
SELECTED Group EXHIBITIONS
2009
2012+ THE DROP NY www.thedropnyc.org
MULTI MEDIA Schmidt Art Gallery, Wartburg College, IA
ANARCHITECTURE - Architects and Artists In Conversation, New York Center For Architecture, AIA New Practices
ONOMATOMANIA ONOMATOMANIA Safe T Gallery, NY
ARCHETIME The Tank for Visual and Performing Arts, NY
CHANGE Edinburgh Arts Festival, Scotland
SELECTED SOLO + ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2008
THE UNWINDING DESTINY PROJECT Griffin Museum Nov. 08 - Jan. 09. featured Solo artist online (installation + photography)
www.griffinmuseum.org/virtual_gallery.htm
INVENTIONS/INTERRUPTIONS - 2 Artists Craddock-Terry Gallery
Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA
LINE, GESTURE, SPACE - 3 artists, Maloney Art Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, NJ
.NJ.com produced a feature, interview/video about my work in the exhibition
http://www.nj.com/morristown/index.ssf/2008/02/artist_ula_einstein_fires_it_u.html
2007 RESONANCE - SOLO Safe T Gallery, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
PAPERWORK: Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University
THE LAST BOOK - curated by Luis Camnitzer, Museum of the National Library of Madrid, Spain (travelling exhibit)
.DRAWING REVEALED -Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY
group exhibition reviewed by The New York Times
.ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION (film also had a public screening March at the Garrison Depot Theatre).
PAPERWORK: Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University
THE LAST BOOK - curated by Luis Camnitzer, Museum of the National Library of Madrid, Spain (travelling exhibit)
PIEROGI 2000 - Ongoing - Selections of my work on paper - flat files williamsburg, brooklyn, new york
.WOMEN'S VOICES/WOMEN'S VISION - April, Musique A La Mode presents , NYC
ITCH - JUNE http://www.itch.co.za/?article=29
Selections from my drawings with fire are featured - a new online mag showing experimental media (South Africa)
WALK INS WELCOME - Umbrella Arts/Curcio Project
2007 Group Exhibitions
STITCHED: group exhibit. installations + works on paper Surface Library Gallery, East Hampton, NY
reviewed and interviewed for The EastHampton and Southampton Press
MUSICAL: Public Art Fund Project with filmmaker Dara Friedman - performance
(The New York Times, print + webcam)
MADE IN THE USA, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, Educational Alliance, New York,NY
March 07 interview: on
http://www.resolve40.com/ula3.html
2006: November radio interview www.citywide.podomatic.com (download)
2006: The Elements: FIRE, installation: Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2006: SELECTIONS: Art from Detritus, Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor, NY
2005: TEXTURE: (paintings with human hair, acrylics on canvas), Art Gotham, NY, NY
resume on the other sites listed
Artist has a background in the performing arts, design and visual arts. |
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