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In my work architecture is a model conception of possible worlds that would spur on a reconsidered organic architecture that would “grow†to suit the needs of the landscape and its inhabitants. This is the focus a new body of work to be explored within a mixed media outcome. Japanese Metabolist theories, the Chicago Marina City Buildings, abandoned buildings of Berlin and a housing complex in Singapore are the basis of a series of site-specific works that “grow†in space. By using multiple medias and projections to facilitate a mural size wall drawings and portable paper architecture structures, the viewer will be taken into a new site a reinvented site, the never ending possibility site. The installation becomes an atmosphere where the viewer can feel the evolving texture of structure.
I see architecture as a virus. I also delve into some of Karl Chu’s theories in the foundations of mathematics and philosophy. Along with metaphysics and the Metabolists basis of structure; there is an exploration into the conceptual space of evolutionary cosmology based on the metaphysics of computation. I explore possibilities of the visual outcome for a computational Monadology, “With the convergence of computation and genetics, he (Chu) believes that we are at the threshold of a brave new world that is unfolding before us and we have yet to develop an adequate theory of architecture that engages with the deep and profound ideas inherent in these issues, which is destined to transform the world unlike anything we have seen in the history of human civilizationâ€.
I am inspired by Lebbeus Woods' visionary drawings, Fortier's "dynamic urbanism", and Italo Calvino's descriptions of the "Invisible Cities"; I am revealing my own imagination of reconstructed cities beyond notions of history, nation or space -- offering "the lucidic interplay of maze-like surfaces, the fantasy of reordering, and the exalted pleasure of refusing the rigidity of another's plan." For example, building hybrids and crossing parallels between the favelas in Rio and the Toyko Capsule building, I am pushing further into ideas of “growing architectureâ€.
I begin by research, travel and searching for cities and buildings that fulfill the visual and conceptual requirements. I then use various softwares in developing the imagery and begin the “growth†process. These images are then edited and printed to architectural plotters or projected onto/into spaces, where they are then drawn and rearranged, manipulated and recombined with other projections. The final results being unique to every space, every wall drawing reconstructs the space and gives the illusion of structure, animated texture and architecture growing into and out of the building itself. This leads the viewer to imagine it growing into something else. The viewer perception is altered into becoming part of the space and rethinking where they actually are.
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MFA, Master in Fine Arts, Studio Arts Studio Arts |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2006
Caitlin Masley: New works, Rdeea Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Marina City #7, Galerjia 01, Zagreb, Croatia (catalog)
Portables Ver.5, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Project Gallery, Trondheim, Norway
Marina City #5, 511 Gallery (project space), New York
Caitlin Masley: New works; STARKWHITE Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2005
Caitlin Masley: New Drawings; la galerie | etc, Geneva
Caitlin Masley Artist project; Cabinet Magazine
2004
Three New Views; Gallerie 5, Copenhagen, Denmark
Up & Coming Project Section, curated by Sylvia Chivaratanond ARCO, Madrid
2003
Sidewalk Project; curated by Ombretta Agro, Site Specific photo-murals; D.U.M.B.O Arts Festival, NY
2002
Caitlin Masley Galerie V + A, Berlin, Germany
Caitlin Masley Galleri 5, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001
Point of Failure Room 02, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York (catalog)
Babylon’s Wet Dream Billboard Project, sponsored by Metro Lights, New York (catalog)
1999
Caitlin Masley Project Space 2 ArtistsSpace, New York
Caitlin Masley Viewpoint Gallery, Salford, England (catalog)
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2006 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Residency, Trondheim, Norway |
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2005 Schinkel-Progressive Residency, Berlin, Germany |
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2004 Kunstlerhaus Salzburg International Residency, Salzburg, Austria |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
The Centre Cannot Hold: Prospects for Suburbia, curated by Brenda Goldstein,
Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Home for Lost Ideas, curated book project, Catherine Griffiths and Dan Rees, Berlin, Germany
War: What is it good for?, curated by Lyz Bly, B.K. Smith Gallery at Lake Erie College, PA
Drawing, 511 Gallery, New York, New york
2005
Capturing Utopia, FOURNOS Centre for Digital Culture; Athens, Greece
Kloone 4000, curated by Anje Roosjen, Retort ProjectSpace, Amsterdam
Madness is Divinest Tense; Cohen and Leslie Gallery, New York
Something is Somewhere; curated by Anat Ebgi, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
New Foundland, Priska C. Juska Fine Art Gallery, New York
2004
Between Interconnectedness, Curated by Suzanne Kim, Smack Mellon Gallery, New York
Open Range, Curated by Sima Familant and Augusto Arbizo. Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
2002
Socrates Emerging Artist Grant Exhibition; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Proper Villains, curated by David Hunt, Untitled Space, New Haven, CT
2001
Tomorrow Cuchi Fritos, Essex Street Market curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, New York (catalog)
Art By Curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley Sylvia Heisel, New York
2000
Greater New York PS.1 Contemporary Art Center/MOMA affiliate, Long Island City, New York
Picturing Architecture: From Space to Place Curated by Lynn Somers;
Amelie Wallace Gallery, SUNY College of Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY
la Folie curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Carolyn Christov-Bakargi
& Laurence Bosse. Villa Medici, French Cultural Institute, Rome, Italy (catalog)
Float Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York (catalog)
Never, Never Land Curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud Florida Atlantic University Gallery,
Boca Raton, FL, Tampa Museum of Contemporary Art, Spring 2001; Rutgers-Camden Center
for the Arts, Tampa
Focus on Pain, on Destruction, Power, Death…Venetia Kapernakas Fine Art, Inc., New York,
1999
Architorture Curated by Paul Ha White Columns, New York
Projected Narratives Downtown Arts Festival Judson Church & Baby Jupiter, New York, New York
tele[o] Ecran Total & ERBAN, Nantes, France
Hypervision Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona
1996
Really, No Strings Attached Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Greed vs. the Good Girl Tucson Performing Arts Center, Tucson, Arizona
Blue Light Special Metropolis Space, Phoenix, Arizona
Transferred States Rhode Island School of Design, City College of New York
and University of Arizona
Sitting: An Exploration of Connections and Places South Broadway Cultural Center
Albuquerque and Tucson/ Pima Art Center Tucson, Arizona (catalog)
Prints Hilltop Gallery, Nogales, Mexico
1994
Participarte Progetto Cuspide Projects, Venice, Italy
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2005 Feldman, Hannah and Body-Gendrot, Sophie; Urbansime Magazine |
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New Photos, Artist Project, Cabinet Magazine |
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Home for Lost Ideas, curated book project, Catherine Griffiths and Dan Rees, Berlin, Germany |
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