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New York at Dawn2010
Tyvek, enamel and latex paint, dirt, American flags, graphite, lamp shade, synthetic hair, polyurethane varnish, chicken wire, plastic sheeting, plaster, garbage bags, pâpier-maché, fake eyelashes, duct tape, wood chips, wire, canvas, cigarette butt, acrylic yarn, metal, salt dough, and hardware
102" x 114" x 96” -
Mirror, Mirror...2011
Empty Alexi vodka bottles, and broken mirror
Dimensions variable -
Untitled (Boots)2011
Three Timberland boots, tar, trash bags, and chicken wire
Dimensions variable -
Dark Star2010
Trash bags, wood, paper, paint, paper pulp, fabric, colored lights, and plastic drop cloths
342” x 154.8”, 367sq. ft. (total installation) -
Black Hole Pit2010
Trash bags, chicken wire, and accumulated signifiers (installation shot from above)
Dimensions variable (72" x 36" x 72”)
Abigail DeVille
January 01, 2012 - April 30, 2012
USA
Sponsored by The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust, USA
Through bricolage, painting, and sculpture, Abigail DeVille cobbles together a visual mass that speaks to the material culture of the present moment. She experiments using found and inherited domestic objects in order to make a connection to the universe. W.E.B. Du Bois' concept of double-consciousness is the conceptual frame DeVille uses to deconstruct two spatial relationships: the claustrophobic space of the urban environment violently clashing with the infinite expanse of the universe. Black holes are an integral metaphor. DeVille warps the time of physical objects. Her objects speak to the physical infinite expanse of universal time and societal ills of the present moment. DeVille's work is interested in making the visible representation of the invisible.
Abigail DeVille (born 1981, New York City) received her BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2007. She received the Camille Hanks Cosby fellowship to participate in the Skowhegan Residency Program in 2007. DeVille was a participant in the art world's first reality television show, Artstar, which aired on Gallery HD from June 2006 – January 2009 and culminated with an exhibition at Deitch Projects (NY). She has exhibited at El Museo Del Barrio, Vogt Gallery, project spaces Recess Activities Inc., The Bronx River Art Center and Marginal Utility in Philadelphia, PA. DeVille is a 2011 MFA graduate in painting at The Yale School of Art.