Laura Splan
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Solo Exhibition
"Rhapsody for an Expanded Biotechnological Apparatus" at the Tang
immersive haptic sound installation with tactile rug made from laboratory animal fiber exploring remote sensing
2021
Solo Exhibition
"Entangled Entities" at The New Gallery
installation with sensory experiences exploring interspecies entanglement through networked devices and tactile sculpture
2021
Group Exhibition
"Unraveling Together" in "Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving" on New Art City
video with AI transcription of remote textiles collaboration included in virtual exhibition reexamining cyberfeminism
2021
Artwork
"Unraveling Together"
participatory textiles collaboration with recorded Zoom performances and hand-made weavings
2020
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"Lumen" and "Chaperone"
participatory haptic sound and textiles sculpture with rug made from hand-spun laboratory animal fiber
2019
Solo Exhibition
"Conformations" at Esther Klein Gallery
multimedia installation exploring hidden systems and invisible labor in the expanded biotechnological landscape
2019
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"Boundary"
entryway with hand-spun laboratory llama fiber and text excerpt using immigration metaphor to explain biology
2019
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"Conformations"
tactile installation with fiber from laboratory alpacas and video performance of carding and spinning
2019
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"Material Expressions No. 2"
biometric performance with motorized sculpture and sound actuated by heartbeat of knitter
2016
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"Measured Gestures"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and aspirational adspeak in magazine ads
2015
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
Artwork
"Meta Static II"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudo-spiritual imagery in magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak
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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"Meta Static I"
magazine collages using pseudo-scientific and pseudo-spiritual ads and hand-built ceramics with titles taken from adspeak
2013
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"Modular Systems"
collages made from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific magazine ads
2012
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"Serendipitous Destiny"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak
2012
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"Transfigurations"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudo-scientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak
2012
Commission
"Surface Tension" in "Watching Hands" at CDC Museum
soap bubble residue drawings in exhibition with Laura Splan, John Bankston, Didi Dunphy, Katherine L. Ross, JamesVictore…
2011
Artwork
"Entropy"
graphite drawing on watercolor paper
2011
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"Distillations"
hand-cut collages made from pseudoscientific magazine ads with hand-built ceramics depicting ad imagery
2010
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"Reformulations"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles from adspeak
2010
Commission
"Trousseau" in "Unravelling the Manor" at Preston Manor
facial peel sculptures in conceptual craft exhibition with Laura Splan, Kira O’Reilly, Catherine Bertola, Matt Smith, Maria Rivans...
2010
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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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"Enmeshed"
drawings on watercolor paper rendered with blood
2010
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"Subcutaneous"
hand embroidery of text on remnant cosmetic facial skin peel
2009
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"Negligee (Serotonin)"
computerized embroidery on sculpture made from remnant cosmetic facial peel
2009
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"Negligee (Slipping Into the Skin of Another)"
computerized embroidery on sculpture made from remnant cosmetic facial peel
2009
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"Fan (Anatomy of the Gaze)"
computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with retina anatomy as decorative motif
2009
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"Handkerchief (Anatomy of Tears)"
computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with tear duct anatomy as decorative motif
2009
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"Purse"
remnant cosmetic facial peel sculpture cast from breasts
2009
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"Gloves"
remnant cosmetic facial peel sculptures cast from artist's hands
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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"Wallpaper" & "Negligee" in "Manufractured" at Museum of Contemporary Craft
blood wallpaper and facial peel sculpture in exhibition with Laura Splan, Sonya Clark, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Marcel Wanders, Devorah Sperber...
2008
Commission
"De-Generate"
lace drawing created using artist's blood as ink commissioned for private art collection
2007
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"Incomplete Retrieval"
drawings of lace rendered in blood on watercolor paper
2007
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"Elaborative Encoding"
drawing of lace rendered in blood
2007
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"Wallpaper/Samples"
wallpaper samples hand-painted with blood
2003
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"Tongue Depressors & Cotton Swabs"
hand-crafted speculative sculptures with accompanying performance video
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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"Vigilant"
latch hook soft sculptures depicting microbes
2002
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"Upside Down, Inside Out"
silicon rubber sculptures cast from test tubes
2000
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"Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft"
hand latch hooked soft sculptures of oversized antipsychotic and antidepressant pills
2000