Camille Utterback's Precarious
ITP Alum Camille Utterback will be presenting her newest interactive installation, Precarious, at an exhibit in the National Portrait Gallery, opening May 2018.
Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now
May 11, 2018 - March 10, 2019
National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Artist Gallery Talk: Saturday, May 12, 2PM
The show features works from the Portrait Gallery’s extensive collection of silhouettes, and at the same time, the exhibition reveals how contemporary artists are reimagining silhouettes in bold and unforgettable ways. The featured contemporary artists are Kara Walker, who makes panoramic silhouettes of plantation life and African American history; Canadian artist Kristi Malakoff, who cuts paper to make life-size sculptures depicting a children’s Maypole dance; MacArthur-prize-winner Camille Utterback, who will present an interactive digital work that reacts to visitors’ shadows and movements; and Kumi Yamashita, who “sculpts” light and shadow with objects to create mixed-media profiles of people who are not there.
With both historical and contemporary explorations into the silhouette, Black Out reveals new pathways between our past and present, particularly with regard to how we can reassess notions of race, power, individualism, and even, our digital selves.
This exhibition is curated by Portrait Gallery Curator of Prints, Drawings and Media Arts, Asma Naeem.
Last Fall, Camille also spent time as an Artist-In_Residence at the Bullseye Resource Center. The self-directed glass residency program provides artists and designers with the materials, equipment and space needed to explore a new material, expand the scale of their work, or refine a technique.
Check out Bullseye’s Flickr album chronicling Camille’s residency here.