Alex McQuilkin
Alex McQuilkin (* 1980 in Boston ) is an American artist.
life and work
Alex McQuilkin studied after graduating from a boarding school in California from 1998 to 2002 at New York University , graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts . Since 2006 at the Steinhardt School of New York University, she received her Master of Fine Arts in 2008 . McQuilkin lives in Brooklyn , New York .
The published work consists mainly of videos, installations, collages and prints of video stills. Topics are identity and self-discovery, sexuality and gender roles, hope and death. She is the main actress in the videos staged by the artist. At the same time, it is important to her that the presentation is not autobiographical. In doing so, she uses ironically, absurdly and analytically related opposites reflected in the media as a means of distancing.
The artist takes up elements of feminist art and the cultural criticism and pop culture of the 1990s, comparing her to artists such as Valie Export , Carolee Schneemann and Sue de Beer as well as Paul McCarthy . Like Cindy Sherman in her postmodern work, Alex McQuilkin takes the place of certain social types in her videos and photos, but rejects simple explanations by the viewer for this identification. In Untitled (Will Fuck for Validation) , a photo self-portrait, McQuilkin recreates a work by Cindy Sherman in which she recreates a picture of a typical film starlet.
Videos
- 1999: Indefinite Line
- 2000: Fucked
- 2002: Get Your Gun Up
- 2003: Teenage Daydream: It's Only Rock and Roll
- 2003: Teenage Daydream: In Vain
- 2004: Test Run
- 2004: Seven Minutes in Heaven
- 2005: The Ranch
- 2006: Desperados
- 2006: Romeo and Juliet (I wanna be Claire Danes)
- 2007: Joan of Arc
- 2009: I Wish I Was a Beam of Light
- 2011: Unbreak My Heart
Solo exhibitions
- 2003 Double Life: Alex McQuilkin; Trine Boesen , 404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy (with Trine Boesen)
- 2004 Tragically Sweet , Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2005 Test Run , Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA (with Angela Strassheim)
- 2005 New Media Wall , Tufts University Art Gallery Aideman Arts Center, Medfort, MA, USA
- 2006 Live Through This , Marvelli Gallery, New York City, USA
- 2007 Joan of Arc , Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA
- 2008 Romeo and Juliet , subZONE Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2009 I Wish I Was a Beam of Light , Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Participation in exhibitions
- 2002: New York's Modern Culture, Inc, The Armory Show - The International Fair of New Art , New York
- 2005: Videonale 10, Bonn
- 2005: Video / Economy , Center for Art and Media Technology , Karlsruhe
- 2005: Corpus 05 Brugge , Musea Brugge, Bruges
- 2005: Coolhunters, Youth Cultures Between the Media and the Market , Künstlerhaus Vienna
- 2006: Youth of Today , Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt
- 2010: Julia Stoschek Collection , Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
literature
- Roberta Smith : Joan of Arc , The New York Times , November 23, 2007
- Ana Finel Honigman: Overwhelming Life , Artnet Magazine, March 2006 (English)
- Ute Thon: Mädchenkunst Echt Böse , art - Das Kunstmagazin , 2005 issue 1, pp. 44–49
Web links
- Alex McQuilkin on kunstaspekte.de
- Website Alex McQuilkin: Video work (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ana Finel Honigman: Overwhelming Life. In: artnet. Retrieved December 10, 2010 .
- ↑ Alex McQuilkin , videoartworld.com, accessed December 11, 2010
- ↑ Alex McQuilkin: Test Run. In: kunstaspekte. Retrieved December 10, 2010 .
- ^ Joy Garnett: Incarnational Aesthetics. In: NEWSgrist: where spin is art. October 21, 2009, p. 1 , 2 , accessed December 12, 2010 .
- ↑ Ana Finel Honigman: Overwhelming Life. artnet Magazine, p. 1.6 , accessed December 12, 2010 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McQuilkin, Alex |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |