He explores every medium, from film and installations to architectural interventions. Doug Aitken is a contemporary American artist known for installations incorporating video, photography, sculpture, and performance. A fruit bowl is also positioned on the table, while a shopping bag is on the floor by the woman's feet.Called All Doors Open, Aitken wanted to use light and sound to bring to life this everyday moment that takes place in a seemingly banal setting.Each of the objects are hollow, made from translucent acrylic, and illuminated with a neon blue light that pulses in time to a backing track of layered vocals that echo throughout the space.As Aitken explains, this could be interpreted as an "anticipation for information" – the figure is designed to look "caught in the midst of a silent moment".Surrounding the figure are four lightboxes that contain abstract images of artificial landscapes made up of collaged photographs of commonplace objects, from aeroplane wings to beds and swimming pools.Aitken describes the works as "landscape paintings of the 21st century", which explore the idea of repetition and variation.Each lightbox is illuminated from behind, trapping the image inside the box to give the impression of being "suspended between the physical world and the world of the screen".Up on the first-floor gallery is the Inside Out installation, where a sculpture of a young "modern" woman carved from Zebrino marble stands in the centre of the space.While from the front, the sculpture looks whole, when viewed from the side visitors can see that the figure is split in half, with mirrors covering each of the inner surfaces.These mirrored surfaces interact with a light wall positioned behind the figure, projecting kaleidoscopic patterns in shades of blue, pink and purple.Reflective steel chimes hang from the ceiling around the figure, slowly rotating and playing music when activated.
Doug Aitkenis a contemporary American artist known for installations incorporating video, photography, sculpture, and performance. ""I was interested in slowing down time," he explained. 16'-6" x 35' x 40' (5.03 x 10.67 x 12.19 m)Chromogenic transparency on acrylic in aluminum lightbox with LEDsChromogenic transparency on acrylic in aluminum lightbox with LEDs95 1/2 x 117 1/4 x 12 3/8 inches (242.6 x 297.8 x 31.4 cm)Photo by Kevin Todora. bio; selected work; books; galleries; contact; Doug Aitken is an American artist and filmmaker. Employing a high level of production value and working in large scale, he creates moving works intended to take the viewer unaware, eliciting responses that are unexpected and profound. (202 results) Though he works in an array of media, including photography, video, sound, and sculpture, he is best known for his installations that intervene on public spaces. bio; selected work; books; galleries; contact; bio Rehabilitation Act and Level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
He moved to New York in 1994 where he held his first solo show at 303 Gallery, introducing himself to the world of art. Get the latest news on the events, trends, and people that shape the global art market with our daily newsletter.©2020 Artnet Worldwide Corporation.
Employing a high level of production value and working in large scale, he creates moving works intended to take the viewer unaware, eliciting responses that … Doug Aitken creates works of art that illuminate how we experience the world Doug Aitken - Sleepwalkers, 2007 - Image via amazonaws.com A Further Glance at the Diversity of His Work. "We are living in a new era, one of complete connectivity, where screen space has become seemingly equal to the physical landscape," said the artist. Taking to the skies in a mirrored hot air balloon: artist Doug Aitken is flying high Save New Horizon is the latest sculpture by American artist Doug Aitken: a 100ft high, mirrored hot air balloon Doug Aitken Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, Aitken’s first North American survey, is organized as a full collaboration and dialogue with the artist. 1968) is an American artist and filmmaker whose work explores every medium, from sculpture, film, and installation to architectural intervention. Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, the artist's first North American survey, at MOCA, Los Angeles Electric Earth (until 15 January 2017) unfolds around major moving-image installations that articulate Aitken's thematic interest in environmental and post-industrial decay, urban abandonment, and the exhaustion of linear time. When he was nineteen years old, young Doug studied magazine illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena - however, he eventually shifted his interests and graduated in Fine Arts in 1991. Aitken's video works have taken place in such culturally loaded sites as Jonestown in Guyana, southwest Africa's diamond mines, and India's Bollywood. Doug Aitken Workshop.