my corpse is not yet quite up to scratch"--a new installation by krista hoefle for Vespine Gallery (Chicago, IL). July 7-29, 2006. Opening Reception--Friday, July 14, 2006 from 7-10pm.
A year ago, I took Joshua Davis' class "Building Art-Making Machines" at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO. A year later, most of the work for my new installation--entitled "my corpse is not yet quite up to scratch'--has been designed by the art making machines I learned how to create in this amazing workshop. The objects, photographs, digital drawings, animations and videos that comprise this installation allude to a borderless, failed, monstrous body. A group of object-misfits defined by ill-fitting material combinations and form reconfigurations, the techniques and materials that are used highlight human error. I juxtapose and integrate technological modes of production with other low-tech materials and processes--generative computer animations and prints are combined with objects that fill and spill into cavities of latex, rubber, plastic, and goo.
for more information visit Vespine's website: www.vespine.org
to see images of the show, visit krista's website: www.im10yearsbehind.com
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Krista Hoefle received her MFA (Sculpture) from Pennsylvania State University in 1996, and her BFA (Furniture Design) from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1994. Her current work investigates embodiment in video game experiences through sculptural practices. Using a wide variety of analog and digital techniques, Hoefle is reinterpreting MMOG and other video game-based exchanges and objects in physical spaces. These spaces are constructed through a combination of electronic objects, prints, video, sound, and other technologically infused elements intermingled together in an installation environment that bleeps and blops.
Recent exhibitions of Krista's work include: "Mystery Science" at Tryk Tryk Tryk Gallery (Copenhagen); "Ah Wilderness" at Ebersmoore Gallery (Chicago); "Mischief Night" at the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago); "Two Minute Film Festival" at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh); "Video Dada" at Room Gallery, University of California (Irvine), curated by Martha Gever; "Paper City" and "X" at Mixed Greens Gallery (NYC). Krista has had residencies at Anchor Graphics (Chicago) and The Experimental Television Center (Owego, NY), and a Visiting Artist at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). Her work has been reviewed in regional and national publications such as Sculpture Magazine, Art Papers, and TimeOut Chicago.
For more information, visit Krista's website: www.kristahoefle.com
Gloria Sutton