Sadie Benning : suspended animation /
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| Author / Creator: | Benning, Sadie, 1973- |
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| Imprint: | Columbus, Ohio : Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, 2007. |
| Description: | 78 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6375259 |
| Summary: | Sadie Benning is not only among the country's most respected and influential video artists, she also broke cultural ground as a founding member of the multimedia feminist band Le Tigre. Suspended Animation , the first monograph on the artist and the catalogue of her first U.S. museum exhibition, introduces Benning's paintings and Play Pause , an ambitious new two-channel video installation. Benning's videos, which she began to make in the late 1980s with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision 2000 "toy camera," are known for their explorations of loneliness, alienation, gender ambiguity and her own developing lesbian identity. Benning's recent paintings--flat, illustrative, exuberant--are playful, imaginary portraits that address similar themes. Play Pause , created entirely from hundreds of Benning's drawings, offers a rhythmic and affectionate view of contemporary life in a city's streets, parks and gay bars. Includes written contributions by Eileen Myles and Aleksandar Hemon, and a conversation with the New York painter Amy Sillman. |
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| Item Description: | Exhibition held at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Jan. 26 - April 15, 2007. |
| Physical Description: | 78 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1881390411 9781881390411 |