| Pregnancy Test |
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| Dimensions: 11' x 8';
Medium: ink and latex paint on wall |
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| Gut Money |
| One in a series of photographs from a collaboration with young people in rural Illinois. We first generated wearable drawings representing invisible physical experience, then photographed the artists wearing their alternate bodily systems.The resulting imagery provides a surreal look at teenage body image set against the the backdrop of the corn fields, county fairs, and high school gymnasiums of their home town. |
| Dimensions: 30" x 22";
Medium: digital lambda print |
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| Leak |
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| Dimensions: 30" x 23";
Medium: ink, acrylic, cut paper collage |
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| ReVision #6 |
| close up of ReVision #6 |
| Dimensions: 7' x 4.5' x 1';
Medium: ink, acrylic, cut paper, tissue party be |
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| ReVision #6 |
| a remapping of bodily systems based on sensation and imagination. In this case, a female reproductive system gone haywire. |
| Dimensions: 7' x 4.5' x 1';
Medium: ink, acrylic, cut paper, tissue party be |
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| Alternate Birthing Plan 6 |
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| Dimensions: 45" x 30";
Medium: ink and acrylic on cut paper |
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| Surrogate |
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| Dimensions: 34" x 22";
Medium: ink, acrylic, gouache on paper |
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| Alternate Birthing Plan 3 |
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| Dimensions: 4' x 3';
Medium: ink and acrylic on cut paper |
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| Hermaphroditic |
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| Dimensions: approx 6' x 5';
Medium: ink and acrylic on cut paper |
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| Drop |
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| Dimensions: 24" x 20";
Medium: ink, acrylic, translucent vellum on cut |
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| Inheritance |
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| Dimensions: 32" x 34";
Medium: ink and acrylic on cut paper collage |
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| Symptom/Secret Symptom |
| Large-scale sculptural drawing based on bodily systems beyond control. It is exhibited on its own or as part of the larger installation 'Secret Symptom (9' x 20' x 5') in which it is viewable only through peepholes in a rashlike floral wallpaper paper created by the artist |
| Dimensions: 9' x 8' x 2';
Medium: mixed media installation with silkscreen |
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| Epidemic (installation view) |
| A modular wall installation dealing with the social contagion of panic complicating viral epidemics. |
| Dimensions: 7' x 16';
Medium: ink, acrylic, paper, and Sintra mounted |
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| Inner Eye |
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| Dimensions: 22" x 17";
Medium: ink, acrylic, watercolor, cut paper and |
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| Demedicalization Manifesto |
| A double-sided, accordion-fold artist made book screenprinted in three colors on red and pale green paper. Edition of 40. |
| Dimensions: 15" x 12" x 1.5" closed;
Medium: silkscreened artist-made book |
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| Ride This |
| This image comes from a collaborative project created with a team of seven teenagers through the Blue Sky Project, an artist residency located in rural IL. We began with a series of interviews with strangers on the street about their experiences with health and illness, injury and disability, beauty and body image. These collected stories were then translated into a small-press zine, an audio CD, a set of wearable collage-drawings, and a series of photographs documenting the teenagers "wearing" the alternate body systems they created, set against the backdrop of the school gymnasiums, county fairs, and cornfields of their native McHenry County. The result is a complex, surreal look at teenage body image and at the ways that we imagine sensations we can feel but can't see. |
| Dimensions: 30" x 22";
Medium: lambda print of collaborative public int |
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| Contagion Cards |
| These trading cards are printed in eight editioned sets, and traded 'virally' for other sorts of cards. 'Fluid samples' located on the designated biohazard area of each print suggest that more than just artwork is disseminated during the exchange. |
| Dimensions: 3.5" x 2.5" each card;
Medium: aquatint etching, collage, bodily fluids |
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| Re:Production - Suggestions from the Animal Kingdom (still) |
| Re: Production is a video created in collaboration with biologist Andrew Yang. Our research borrows from the reproductive models of other organisms -- the Peach Aphid, Surinam Toad, Adactylidium Mite, Hydra, and the Mollusk Crepidula -- to create new visions of human reproduction during a time when fertility drugs and genetic modification seem to make all sorts of impossible things viable. In re-imagining the capacity of the human body, we consider alternate sites and modes for pregnancy, fetuses within fetuses within fetuses, and other concepts borrowed from alternate biologies found in nature. |
| Dimensions: 6 minutes, projection size variable;
Medium: digital video with animation |
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| Re:Productive Zine |
| a small-press zine containing personal narratives collected from twenty seven women on the combined topics of fertility and identity. Egg donors, single mothers, lesbian couples, and doulas-in-training share their diverse perspectives on everything from abortions to epidurals.
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| Dimensions: 8" x 7.5" closed, 48 pages;
Medium: xeroxed on white paper with yellow paper |
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| Transfusion |
| Imagined systems tangle with the real as Donner links her subjects and herself with drawn parts. |
| Dimensions: approx 5' x 8' x 1';
Medium: drawing, performance, ink, cut paper |
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