March 7th, at 7:00pm, Room SH118 (Sabine Hall).
Artist's Website: http://www.jillmagid.net/
"Magid's conceptual artworks explore the blurry boundary between observation and surveillance, between secrets and public revelation. She tries to undo power structures, specifically the Big Brother-like systems so prevalent in our post-terrorism world." Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, American-Statesman Arts Writer, austin360.com, January 25th, 2012
austin360 website article:
http://www.austin360.com/arts/artist-witness-creates-exhibit-for-arthouse-in-response-2124979.html
Jill Magid seeks intimate relations with
impersonal structures. She is intrigued by hidden information, being public as a
condition for existence, and intimacy in relation to power and
observation. Magid received her Master
of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in Ithaca, New
York. Magid was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende
Kunsten, Amsterdam from 2000-2. She has received various awards including the
Basis Stipendium from Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten in the Netherlands in 2006
and the Netherland-American Foundation Fellowship Fulbright Grant from
2001-2002. Magid has had solo exhibitions at various institutions around the
world including Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
Berkeley Museum of Art, California; Tate Liverpool; the Stedelijk Museum Bureau
Amsterdam; Yvon Lambert, Paris and New York; Gagosian Gallery, New York;
Sparwasser, Berlin; The Centre D’Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, and Stroom,
Netherlands. Magid is the author of three novellas, and is currently working on
her fourth. Jill Magid lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Jill Magid. Failed States.
Magid's family car: a 1993 Mercedes station wagon armored
to B4 level, resistant to 9MM thru .44 Magnum.
Sound (plays on car stereo): The Deed, 6 channel audio
work. 2012.
