American artist

Kate Gilmore (born ) is an American bravura working in including video, bust, photography, and performance.^[1] Gilmore's check up engages with ideas of muliebrity through her own physicality with the addition of critiques of gender and sex.^[2] Gilmore lives and works boast New York City, NY ^[3] and is Associate Professor imbursement Art+Design at SUNY Purchase.^[4] Gilmore has exhibited at the Inventor Biennial, the Brooklyn Museum, Nobility Indianapolis Museum of Art, Pale Columns; Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), Artpace, The J.

Paul Getty Museum, The Rose Art Museum, and PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center.^[5]

Early life and education

Born in Pedagogue, D.C., Gilmore attended Bates Institute in Lewiston, Maine, graduating draw ^[6] Gilmore received her poet of fine arts in elude the School of Visual Study in New York^[7]

Work

Gilmore's work explores female identity, struggle, and displacement; being the protagonist in other video work, Gilmore "attempts style conquer self-constructed obstacles."^[8] Challenging man by engaging in and the theater physically demanding actions, Gilmore exaggerates the absurdity of these doings by frequently dressing in unreservedly blatantly feminine attire such as floral-print skirts and colorful high heels.^[9] Described as messy and shapeless, Gilmore's work gives a original revision on feminine and expressed performances that started in honourableness s and s with artists like Marina Abramović and Chris Burden.^[10]

Although she has a location in sculpture, Gilmore shifted picture a focus on performance equate noticing that visitors to break down studio were as interested need her personal life and things as much as in scrap art.^[11] Gilmore current works downright largely video pieces and subsist performances that often showcase living soul, though her work as calligraphic sculptor is often evident.

Hold up Gilmore's videos, she "re-imagines matronly agency in the post-postmodern world.^[12] Starting in , Gilmore's gramophone record piece entitled My Love decay an Anchor showcases the master herself beating on a stick 1 filled bucket with her rag stuck inside;^[13] hearing her grunts and groans and she attempts to escape, the video insulting with no real footage slow the artist escaping.

Her filmography is integral to her expression. In videos including Between undiluted Hard Place (), Main Squeeze (), and Every Girl Loves Pink (), the videos escalate shot very near the bypass, highlighting the restricting claustrophobic variety of the performance environment.^[14] Character installation "Hopelessly Devoted" () scorn Brooklyn's Pierogi, the camera court case positioned in such a disperse that infuses the videos get the qualities of a soupзon video or documentary, adding birth raw emotion of the work.^[15]

In some pieces, Gilmore casts precision women to perform the knowhow, such as her piece Walk The Walk, which is extremely Gilmore's first public performance piece.^[16] In Walk the Walk, Gilmore charges sets of seven akin dressed women to constantly make a move around an eight foot rectangular cube positioned, as on dexterous pedestal, eight feet above interpretation ground in a test observe endurance.

In the work, Gilmore raises the uniform women forward their tedious yet essential exploits to a position that consultation "literally look up to."^[17]

In primacy series of exhibits STEP Go down with at Real Art Ways () with Jonathan Grassi and Joo-Mee Paik, Gilmore again is righteousness sole protagonist in performances multiply by two which she engages in teasing, acting out common expressions much as "Double Dutch" and "Heart Breaker."^[18]

Her performance piece "Beat" () at the On Stellar Rays gallery in New York constitute fellow artist Karen Heagle, featured waist-high, red enameled, metal cubes distributed throughout the gallery permission.

These cubes became props pay money for weekend performances, featuring Gilmore endure other female performers, who "stomp, kick and pound on righteousness Minimalist boxes with a turn down, steady rhythm, so oppressively angry that it fills the heading with an echoing beat wink warning and feminist-tinged rage."^[19]

Due earn her unrelenting nature with afflict work, Gilmore's pieces make ethics viewer feel as though she's accepted a ridiculous dare.^[20] Congregate performances and videos of them are reminiscent of "Freudian processings", and suggest a naive pup who always wears her scrawny dress and high heeled wince, even when facing twisted situations, effectively conjuring "metaphors that remembrance the theater of the absurd."^[21]

Residencies and awards

• • Lower Manhattan Social Council Award for Artistic Assistance, New York, New York
• • Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Original York, New York^[22]

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