Kristine Marx


The Bath, 1998 
Video installation
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The Letter, 1999
Video installation
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Pool,1999
Video installation
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Remote,2000 
Video installation
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Interiors: Video Installations
Interiors is a series of video installations depicting situations that are at once intimately familiar and spatially disorienting. The work plays with time in its reference to art historical themes, yet connects the subject matter to a contemporary sensibility of fractured and disjunctive experience.

The installations are comprised of videos projected onto a sculptural environment: constructed planes of transparent, opaque and reflective materials (plastic, wood, paper, etc.) The planes break up the conventional film/video rectangle, doubling and reversing the image. Fragments of the image reflect onto the wall, connecting the piece to its site.

The video, displaying a man and woman going about ordinary tasks like bathing and letter writing, transforms into a visually incongruent space. Everything dismantles: image separates from its source, color separates from the black and white representation, and sound is removed from the moving image. Only parts of the scene are accessible to the viewer at any given moment. The necessity of choosing a perspective is intrinsic to the work's meaning; it must be seen from different angles to be taken in completely.

The image's presence and absence alternates drawing attention to the act of viewing as central to this body of work. These installations relate visual perception to a sense of what is real and what is illusory, what is hidden and what is shown.


Kristine Marx
350 Cabrini Boulevard, Apt. 6-K
New York, NY 10040
212-927-4672
email:jpmklm@erols.com

Education
1996-1999 M.F.A., Hunter College of the City of New York, NYC, NY
1987-1991 B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1989-1990 Oxford University, Wadham College, Oxford, England

Selected Exhibitions
2000 (upcoming)Artist in the Marketplace,The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1999 American Sentences,Sponsored Reality, Union Hill, Union City, NJ
Crest '99,Brooklyn, NY
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition,Times Square Gallery, NYC, NY
Collage,2/20, NYC, NY
No Limits,Judson Memorial Church Benefit, NYC, NY
1998 Show & Tell,Ida Lang Hall, NYC, NY
Crest '98,Brooklyn, NY

Grants/Residencies
1999 Artist in the Marketplace (A.I.M.), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Thomas Apicella Memorial Award
1998 William Graf Travel Abroad Schoolarship
Study of Hindu Temple Sculpture, Java and Bali, Indonesia
1987 Arts of Japan Project, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
Study of traditional Japanese visual and performing arts