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Article: Katie Grinnan: ACME. (Reviews: Los Angeles).(artist uses photographs as material for sculpture)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Although I might wish for the death of photography almost every time I have to stomach it in a gallery (despite my whorish delectation of photographs daily), I think the idea of the death of any medium is absurd. This, however, is very different from being interested in artists who destroy and deconstruct their medium in order to reconfigure, recycle, or renew it. Katie Grinnan uses photographs as material for sculpture and plumbs how photography's use of color, shadow, light, and space changes when it forms a physical interior or exterior. Folded or bent space, actual space, and remembered space are activated and collapsed in different ways throughout her work.
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