Natasha Bowdoin

Natasha Bowdoin

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  • 2010-2009
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The Daisy Argument, panoramic view 1
2011
Cut paper, acrylic paint, gouache and pencil
Dimensions vary
Installation commissioned by the Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin
January 28 - March 12, 2011
Image 1 of 10

Press Release:

The Daisy Argument by Houston-based artist Natasha Bowdoin is the third incarnation of a project that documents her transcriptions of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Over the past few years, Bowdoin has used language as an organic material to explore the unpredictable presence of words. Her site-specific installations are composed of an ever-changing number of components, including drawings of phrases carefully cut from paper that are re-appropriated with each new exhibition. Her literary translation is a visual process that seeks to make a piece of art that is physically and conceptually permeable, liberated from language's structural expectations. Rather than functioning as a visualization of the content of meaning of the author's text, her works become pictures of words, a visual manifestation of verse. Bowdoin will transform the interior space of The Arcade to create an environment made of layered and interwoven texts that will generate a new setting for prose and the viewer to converge.


All images copyright of Natasha Bowdoin, 2006-2022

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