Laura Splan
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Medicine, Surgery
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
Commission
"Disentanglement" and "Doilies" in "Triënnale Brugge"
interventions exploring theme of “trauma” for triennial with Laura Splan, Adrián Villar Rojas, Hans Op de Beeck, Henrique Oliveira, Héctor Zamora, Nnenna Okore...
2021
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
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
Artwork
"Transfigurations"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudo-scientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak
2012
Artwork
"Qualitative Analysis"
videos that remix the scifi film “The Wasp Woman“ to explore notions of the mad scientist and unnatural transformation
2012
Artwork
"Entropy"
graphite drawing on watercolor paper
2011
Artwork
"Distillations"
hand-cut collages made from pseudoscientific magazine ads with hand-built ceramics depicting ad imagery
2010
Artwork
"Reformulations"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles from adspeak
2010
Artwork
"X-Ray Visions & Morphine Dreams"
photographic light boxes with digitally composited X-rays created from found images
2005
Artwork
"Disbursement & Accumulation"
video loop of blood dripping in water
2004
Artwork
"Thought Patterns"
drawings of neuroanatomical structures rendered in blood
2003
Artwork
"Tongue Depressors & Cotton Swabs"
hand-crafted speculative sculptures with accompanying performance video
2002
Artwork
"Stethoscope"
participatory sound sculpture with 25-foot long stethoscope
2002
Artwork
"Blood Scarf"
photographs of speculative medical apparatus hand-knit into intravenous scarf from clear vinyl tubing
2002
Artwork
"Exam Gown"
hand-knit textiles sculpture with large-scale photographic portraits that reimagines the institutional hospital gown
2002
Artwork
Catheter Bag Cozy
installation including photographs and a hand-knit vinyl tubing sculpture that is continuously pumped with blue liquid
2001
Artwork
"Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft"
hand latch hooked soft sculptures of oversized antipsychotic and antidepressant pills
2000