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2004 Schedule
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Matthew
Ritchie
March 30
Matthew Ritchie's paintings, sculptures, murals, light-walls,
and web-based projects explore the nature of perception and
the many ways in which we try to describe and understand the
universe. Ritchie draws upon sources as disparate as mathematics,
comic books, biblical stories, video games, and information
technology to create a promiscuous and evolving body of work
whose central purpose is to explore how we model our own consciousness.
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Rineke
Dijkstra
April 13
Over the last ten years, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra has
acquired a reputation as one of the most well respected photographers.
Her work evokes an extraordinary pathos, revealing a certain
empathy for its subject. Dijkstra began her photographic career
freelancing for such publications as Elle, Avenue,
and Elegance in Europe. Since then, she has developed
a unique, candid style of portraiture influenced by formal
classicism and layered with intense psychological depth. Dijkstra's
color photographs and videos employ natural light and minimal
backgrounds, revealing a raw immediacy and an almost clinical
attention to detail.
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Paul
McCarthy
April 27
Paul McCarthy has become infamous over the past three decades
for his no-holds-barred installations, videos, sculptures,
body-art performances, and photographs. Much of the artist's
oeuvre incorporates household materials, a trademark use of
the grotesque, and kitschy icons. McCarthy has often formulated
an equation between architecture, the human body, and the
human psyche. Recently, he has been included in 2004's
Public Art Fund Projects in Central Park--A collaboration
with the Whitney Biennial (2004). McCarthy's Daddies
Bighead (2003), sited at Lasker Rink in the northern
end of the park, is a 50-foot-tall pink inflatable sculpture.
With bulging eyes, a carrot-shaped nose, and several protruding
irregularities, Daddies Bighead is at once goofy and
awful--a roadside attraction gone bizarrely awry.
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