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2008-2009 Workspace resident Corinne May Botz featured in New York Times
Corinne May Botz in her apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Ethan Hill for The New York Times.
WHEN Corinne May Botz was a preteenager in Glen Rock, N.J., she and her two sisters appeared on a segment of “Good Morning America” as the “bad example,” she said recently, in a story about children’s messy bedrooms. (Asked by the television reporter why she didn’t clean her room, she recalled her 11-year-old self replying airily, “I don’t have time!”)
Since then, Ms. Botz, now a solemn 33-year-old artist, has found herself ineluctably drawn to the power of stuff, and the human fascination with it, an interest she has explored in a body of photographic work that reads like a DSM of contemporary American life and the dark side of domesticity.
For her M.F.A. thesis project at Bard in 2006, she chronicled the homes and possessions of agoraphobics, in luminous photographs that depict, for example, the night table of a Pennsylvania woman who hadn’t left her house in years and who experienced anxiety if any of the objects sitting beside her bed were moved. In Germany, on an artist’s residency a few years ago, Ms. Botz met a woman who claimed to be in love with the Berlin train station, and she made an oddly affecting video about that strange (and unrequited) passion for a public building, in which the woman frets that she has no privacy with her beloved.
Read more in The New York Times.
November 4, 2010permalink
Previously: LMCC welcomes Kristaps Gulbis, CEC ArtsLink resident
