Laurel Nakadate

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Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) is an American video artist and photographer living in New York City.

Laurel Nakadate was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Ames, Iowa.

Nakadate's 2005 solo show at Danziger Projects, "Love Hotel and Other Stories," was featured in The New York Times, the Village Voice and FlashArt. Art critic, Jerry Saltz named her a "standout" in the 2005's "Greater New York" show at P.S.1.

Since then Nakadate's work has been exhibited at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Asia Society, New York; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Berlin Biennial; Grand Arts, Kansas City; the Mary Boone Gallery, New York; and the Howard Yezersky Gallery in Boston.

A cover interview with the artist appeared in the October 2006 issue of The Believer.

Nakadate currently lives and works in New York City. She is represented by Danziger Projects.

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[edit] Work

Her early video pieces featured Nakadate in improvised vignettes alongside a variety of single men that she met in her daily life, later soliciting their participation on camera.[1]

Her current work removes Nakadate from the immediate focus of attention; videos shown at Danziger Projects in the fall of 2006 centered mainly on Nakadate's men, with results that ranged from humorous to eerily violent.

More recent video pieces include the artist by herself in various hotel rooms, going through the motions of love-making without a partner present. The effect remains as a sad one, usually associated with the loner male is cited in an interview on Art Talk in 2007.

[edit] Reception

New York Times critic Ken Johnson called her, "smart and scarily adventurous."[1] She was also featured in the book 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers.[2]

[edit] Selected Bibliography

2007:
Baker, R.C. "Best in Show," The Village Voice, March 7, 2007.
Finkel, Jori. "Saying the F-Word," ArtNews, February 2007.
Iaccarino, Clara. "Saddle Up for a Wild Video Ride," The Sydney Morning Herald, March 22, 2007.
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Laurel Nakadate,” ArtForum, January 2007.

2006:
Baker, RC. "Best in Show," The Village Voice, Nov 16, 2006.
e-flux, Sept 26, 2006.
Indrisek, Scott. “Laurel Nakadate,” The Believer, October 2006.
Kunitz, Daniel. “Defying the Definitive,” New York Sun, Sept 14, 2006.
Ribas, João. “Sex, Danger, and Videotape,” New York Sun, Oct 23, 2006.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Fall Preview – Art,” New York Magazine, Sept 4 - 11, 2006.
Smith, Roberta. “A Mélange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities,” New York Times, Sept 8, 2006.

2005:
Eleey, Peter. “Review: Greater New York,” Frieze, May 2005.
Ichikawa, Akiko. “Love Hotel and Other Stories,” Flash Art, 2005.
Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: Laurel Nakadate,” New York Times, May 6, 2005.
Kunitz, Daniel. “Art Review 25,” Art Review, 2005.
Lowry, Glenn et al. Greater New York: PS1/MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, 2005.
Remy, Patrick. “Eight Women,” French Vogue, March 2004.
Saltz, Jerry. “Whatever Laurel Wants,” Village Voice, May 2, 2005.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review; Laurel Nakadate", New York Times, May 6, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-02-15. 
  2. ^ Tillman Hill, Iris; Ed. (2003). 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers. Lyndhurst. 

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