Phoebe Washburn
Phoebe Washburn was born 1973 BirthPoughkeepsie, New York, USA.
Lives and works in HomeNew York City.
Categories: Installation art
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Her structures are typically enormous, architecturally-based, organic in nature and complex. They are constructed out of bits of collected refuse. Having witnessed routine building processes evidenced in neighborhood construction she is drawn not so much to the method by which a structure goes up, rather to the more methodical acts of sorting, stacking and organizing materials…
"True, False and Slightly Better"
A factory devised to nurture the growth of grass for the factory’s own sod roof, where it will eventually wilt and decay—so describes Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow by Phoebe Washburn, whose installations often explore generative systems based on absurd patterns of production…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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