Laura Splan
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Medical Art
Artwork
"Bloom"
immersive 360° installation with 16-channel spatial soundscape by Linda Dement and Laura Splan in collaboration with the Cardiovascular Regeneration Group at UTS
2024
Group Exhibition
"Doilies" in "Life Eternal: The Nobel Prize Museum at Liljevalchs"
exhibition exploring notions of eternity with Laura Splan, Anna Dumitriu, Andrea Galvani, Mark Dion, Rineke Dijkstra, William Kentridge...
2022
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"Unraveling"
animations created with molecular models of the coronavirus spike protein
2020
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"Renatured"
archival pigment prints created with molecular models of coronavirus spike protein
2020
Solo Exhibition
"Manifest" at NYU Langone Art Gallery
solo exhibition exploring embodiment, emotion and affect through biometric data driven artworks
2017
Commission
"Host" in "Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS" at Van/Every Smith Gallery
installation in exhibition with Laura Splan, Keith Haring, Frank Moore, Robert Farber, Mike Hoolboom, Frederick Weston...
2014
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"Convergence"
installation with photography and sculpture made in collaboration with Ariana Page Russell at Magnan Metz Gallery
2014
Group Exhibition
"Braided Stethoscope" in "Gone Viral: Medical Science and Contemporary Textile Art" at Marion Art Gallery
braided stethoscope and other speculative medical device artworks in "Gone Viral: Medical Science and Contemporary Textile Art"
2013
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"Entropy"
graphite drawing on watercolor paper
2011
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"Unrestricted Diffusion"
watercolor paintings with blood
2010
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"Exogenous"
paintings with varying dilutions of blood stenciled through doilies onto watercolor paper
2010
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"Handkerchief (Anatomy of Tears)"
computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with tear duct anatomy as decorative motif
2009
Commission
"Doilies" and "Trousseau" in "Re/Formations" at Van Every/Smith Galleries
textile sculptures in exhibition with Laura Splan, Rebecca Horn, Nancy Fried, Harriet Sanderson, Judith Scott...
2009
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"X-Ray Visions & Morphine Dreams"
photographic light boxes with digitally composited X-rays created from found images
2005
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"Trepidation"
video exploring visceral abstraction through symmetry and blood
2004
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"Thought Patterns"
drawings of neuroanatomical structures rendered in blood
2003
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"Virus"
watercolor paintings of viruses rendered in blood on paper
2003
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"Tongue Depressors & Cotton Swabs"
hand-crafted speculative sculptures with accompanying performance video
2002
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"Stethoscope"
participatory sound sculpture with 25-foot long stethoscope
2002
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"Blood Scarf"
photographs of speculative medical apparatus hand-knit into intravenous scarf from clear vinyl tubing
2002
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"Exam Gown"
hand-knit textiles sculpture with large-scale photographic portraits that reimagines the institutional hospital gown
2002
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"Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft"
hand latch hooked soft sculptures of oversized antipsychotic and antidepressant pills
2000