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Liz Magic Laser: Kiss and Cry
20 November 2015 – 23 January 2016
Artist talk Friday 20 November 2015 7pm with reception to follow
Mercer Union is delighted to present a solo exhibition by New York based artist Liz Magic Laser. The exhibition titled Kiss and Cry will feature a new video work commissioned by the gallery and Partners in Art. There will be an artist talk at 7pm on Friday 20th November 2015, followed by the opening reception.
Liz Magic Laser works across performance, video and installation. Emerging from an interest in movement and the body, her work explores current events and their mediation through mass media in an age of information and engages with the mechanisms of how we perform and how we are performed to through multiple modalities. She stages situations, dialogues, monologues or plays and uses the urban environment and its population as the context for her artwork.
Liz Magic Laser b. 1981, New York earned a BA from Wesleyan University 2003 and an MFA from Columbia University 2008. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture 2008 and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program 2009. Most recently, her work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Wilifried Lentz, Rotterdam 2015; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles 2015; Yale Union, Portland 2013; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 2013 and The Westflischer Kunstverein, Mnster 2013. Her work has also been exhibited at The Whitney Museum, New York 2015; Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna 2015; Art Space, Sydney 2015; The Highline, New York 2014; Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea 2014; Carolina Performing Arts, Chapel Hill 2014; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2014; The Kitchen, New York 2014; Lisson Gallery, London 2013; the Performa 11 Biennial, New York 2011; The Pace Gallery, New York 2011 and MoMA PS 1, New York 2010. Laser is the recipient of grants from Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation Grant 2013, the Southern Exposure Off-Site Graue Award 2013, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 2012, the Times Square Alliance 2010 and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art 2010. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
This exhibition is presented with leading support from Partners in Art
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