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American Artist

2024 Milestone Grantee

Bio

American Artist is a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Visual Art and a Creative Capital grantee. They are a former resident of Smack Mellon, Red Bull Arts Detroit, Abrons Art Center, Recess, EYEBEAM, Pioneer Works, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; and Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul. Their work has been featured in New York Times, Cultured, Artforum, and Art in America. Artist is a former co-director of the School for Poetic Computation and is a faculty at Yale.

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Yannis Window

, 2022–2024Sculptural projection, single-channel HD video with soundSculpture: 20' 1-1/4" × 11' 5-1/2" × 1' 3" Video Runtime: 21:32
Yannis Window, 2022–2024. Sculptural projection, single-channel HD video with sound. Sculpture: 20' 1-1/4" × 11' 5-1/2" × 1' 3" Video Runtime: 21:32.

Artwork

  • A large screen centered to a room displays a man in sunglasses and a cap, with an out-of-focus, desaturated color American flag backdrop. The room glows with a warm red-orange light.
  • A geometric wooden structure with black and green markings stands in a gallery with framed artworks on white walls and with wooden floors.
  • An old monochrome monitor with keyboard, installed on a white table. There is operating system running, and a black goo is coming out of the keyboards. There are hand prints on either side of the keyboard, marked with the black goo, and the goo continues to drip down the table edge.
  • Dimly lit room with a large projection screen displaying a blurred cityscape in a futuristic game or navigation point of view. Empty metal benches face the screen.
  • A wooden school desk with metal legs modified with a vertical structure on top, beside a blue student chair on a wooden floor. Four books are neatly stacked in a wire basket attached under the chair.

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