Thursday, February 16, 2012

March 2012 Guest Artist: Conceptual Artist, Jill Magid

Conceptual Artist, Jill Magid, will be giving a lecture on
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. 

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