LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) – LACE Annual Benefit Art Auction
Auction Ends: May 19, 2010 02:00 AM PDT

Silent Auction

Connie Samaras

Item Number
229
Estimated Value
2500 USD
Opening Bid
1000 USD

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Item Description

The Dark Side of the Moon: Matias and the International Space Station, Joshua Tree
chromogenic ink jet, 31" x 24"
AP 1 of 3

BIOGRAPHY
Connie Samaras is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer. Her creative and research interests include built environments, speculative landscapes, political geographies and psychological dislocation in the everyday. She has exhibited her work and given presentations at venues such as the UCLA Hammer Museum; ICA London; Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; and the Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, among others. Catalogues of her artwork include VALIS (UNAM, Mexico City, 2008), Angelic States - Event Sequence (SFAI, 2002) and A Partial Correction to the Representations of Earth Culture Sent to Extraterrestrials on the 1977 U.S. Voyager Space Probes (New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1995, funded by the NEA). She is a Professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine, where she is also a faculty member in the Culture and Theory Program and the Women Studies Program.  

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