Dawn Kasper
Dawn Kasper (born in Fairfax, Virginia 1977) is a New York based performance artist.[1]
Education and work
Kasper received a B.F.A in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999 and was accepted into graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles directly after, receiving an M.F.A in New Genres in 2003.
While at UCLA Kasper studied with Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Catherine Opie, John Baldessari and Jason Rhoades after graduating she was represented by Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles for three years. Then picked up by Circus Gallery and had her first solo show in 2007 titled Life and Death.[2]
From 2001 to 2007 Dawn Kasper recreated death scene the project was titled 'The Evil Series" or "Death Scenes" The work was in part, inspired by Weegee's crime scene photography and the B horror film genre.
In 2010 Kasper created Music for Hoarders, originally performed at Honor Fraser Gallery, then recreated in 2012 at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.[3]
Kasper participated in the 2012 Whitney Bienniel with "This Could be Something if I Let It", in which she lived and worked in the gallery space, calling it an "nomadic studio".[4] Each day for the duration of the exhibit (three months), Kasper had studio visits, made work, and interacted with the public, wearing away the difference between public and private, artist and visitor.[5]
References
- ↑ "CCFFellowship for Visual Artists: Dawn Kasper". CCFFellowship for Visual Artists. 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
- ↑ "Dawn Kasper". March 13, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
- ↑ Phelps, Calvin (January 26, 2012). "Dawn Kasper to Exhibit Music for Hoarders". Armory. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
- ↑ Biennal/Dawn Kasper "Dawn Kasper" Check
|url=value (help). Whitney Museum. Retrieved September 16, 2014. - ↑ Greene, Penelope (April 25, 2012). "Please Don't Feed the Artist: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial". New York Times. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
2010
- LA Times May 16, 2010 Cultural Monster by Holly Myers http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/16/entertainment/la-ca-kasper-20100516
- Coagula magazine #101 page 34 http://www.coagula.net/magazine.cfm?pg=34
2009
- Coagula magazine #99 page 6 http://www.coagula.net/
2008
- New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/arts/design/30fink.html
- Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-lacma17-2008nov17,0,2476602.story
2007
- BeautifulDecay http://beautifuldecay.com/
- Artslant http://www.artslant.com/la/articles/show/537
- Artforum critics pick: www.http://artforum.com/picks/section=la&mode=past
- LA Weekly Art section, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 ‘Hey Ladies!’ written by Doug Harvey
2006
- Contemporary Magazine 21 issue #89 ‘special issue on performance’ pg. 60-63 ‘Dawn Kasper’ written by Raphael Gygax
- Calendar Weekend section Los Angeles Times Thursday, August 24, 2006 pg. E16 ’15 Artists Reinvent Their Wheels’ written by Cindy Chang