Anne Mathern
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Anne’s current work centers on the formation of culture, particularly among people of her generation, and particularly on an individual level. Recently breaking away from large-format photography to work in less resolved time-based and performative media, the artist is shifting the function of the object or image in her practice away from being the end of an idea and towards being a conduit to experience.
In the sculptural piece Buck/Bust, the friend-collaborator from a recent wilderness trip actually becomes an object, and the object itself comes to represent him as a wild being. In the wilderness project from This is the Worst Trip…, and in Mathern’s past work with fantasy metal band Doomhawk, the collaborator becomes a medium for her own work. The object shifts from an endpoint to a passage, and the relationship enters a gray area between collaboration and objectification.
Crawl Space Exhibitions
Current Works 2008
Group show. 6-21 December, 2008
This is the worst trip I’ve ever been on.
with Chad Wentzel. 18 October - 16 November, 2008
Current Works 2007
Group show. 24 November - 16 December, 2007
Current Works 2006
Group show. October 21, 2006 – January 12, 2007
Trial and the Tribunal
19 August – 10 September, 2006
Grown Accustomed
June 17 – July 9, 2006
Collections: Work from the artists who run Crawl Space
Group show. November 19 - December 11, 2005