Laura Splan
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Anatomy, Bodies, Skin
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
Video & Zine Collaborations in "Copy Machine Manifestos" at Brooklyn Museum
exhibition tracing subcultures and avant-garde practices featuring Laura Splan, Allyson Shaw, Miranda July, Tammy Rae Carland...
2023
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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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"Metronome"
biometric performance collaboration with heart rate data-driven sound by Hari Stojan and visuals by Iulia Miruna Radu
2016
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"Manifest"
3D-printed sculptures with data-driven forms created with EMG measurements of facial expressions
2015
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"autologousReflection"
participatory sculpture with computer generated animation and text
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
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"Convergence"
installation with photography and sculpture made in collaboration with Ariana Page Russell at Magnan Metz Gallery
2014
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"Meta Static II"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudo-spiritual imagery in magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak
2014
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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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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Gravity"
paintings with blood on watercolor paper
2008
Commission
"De-Generate"
lace drawing created using artist's blood as ink commissioned for private art collection
2007
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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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"Disbursement & Accumulation"
video loop of blood dripping in water
2004
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"Trepidation"
video exploring visceral abstraction through symmetry and blood
2004
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"Wallpaper/Samples"
wallpaper samples hand-painted with blood
2003
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"Thought Patterns"
drawings of neuroanatomical structures rendered in blood
2003
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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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"Upside Down, Inside Out"
silicon rubber sculptures cast from test tubes
2000