About

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In my multimedia installations, I use video and light projected through glass objects and kinetic sculptures to create immersive, moving shadow-drawings. The disruption of climate change, man-made disasters, and the evolution of technology on our (and as our) landscape has been the driving force of my creative research for several years. Citing art historical roots from the Hudson River School to Land Arts, I examine the interrelationship of landscape, environment, and technology. The 'shadow drawings' distort and amplify scale and space and distill a sense of the transient. These juxtapositions raise questions of history, labor and technology as well as the environment in which they exist.

As the multimedia installations examine place and environment, the 'Mirror, Mirror' series, employs gouache, ink and salt to create delicately edged compositions reminiscent of hand mirrors and picture frames, but filled with swirling colors dissolving into black inks and starburst shocks of salt crystals. The titles cue the ideas underneath: 'American Myths' and 'Flare-Up' elicit dramas of climate crisis, aging technology and our incessant drive for energy and resources.

BIOGRAPHY

Alice Pixley Young is a multimedia installation artist born and raised in Washington DC. Her work examines the interrelationship of landscape, environment and technology. Young has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Akron Art Museum, Sarasota Art Museum, 21c Museum, The Print Studio London, UICA and Taft Museum of Art. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Surdna Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, Summerfair AIA, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel Foundation and Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences. Her work can be seen in Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artnet News and Condé Nast Traveler. She is a member of A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and lives and teaches in Cincinnati, OH.