Mary Lucier

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Mary Lucier (born 1944, in Bucyrus, Ohio) is an American artist who has worked in many mediums including sculpture, photography, and performance. Concentrating primarily on video and installation since 1973, she has produced numerous multiple- and single-channel pieces. Her work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, alternative spaces and festivals and is represented in many public and private collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

In the past 30 years, Lucier has been the recipient of grants, awards, and commissions from public and private foundations including Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Film Institute, the Jerome Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Anonymous Was A Woman, and the Nancy Graves Foundation. In 2007 she received the Skowhegan Medal for Video for outstanding work in the field.

A traveling exhibition, The Plains of Sweet Regret [1], is accompanied by a 48 page catalog edited by Laurel Reuter, with an essay by Karen Wilkin. Venues include the University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, The University of Michigan Art Museum, Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, The Lab at Belmar (Denver). She is represented by Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Her videotapes are available from Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.

[edit] Selected Major Works

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The Plains of Sweet Regret (2004/2007) Mixed media video and sound installation
Arabesque (2004) DVD
Selected Works, 1975 - 2000 (2001), 3 DVDs
Migration 2000: Portrait John Lado Keni/Monarch (2000) Video and sound installation
Forge (2000) Mixed media video and sound installation
Nesting (2000) Mixed media video and sound installation
Migrations (2000) Video and sound installation
Floodsongs (1998) Video and sound installation
Summer, or Grief (1998), DVD
House by the Water (1997) Mixed media video and sound installation
Aspects of the Fossil Record (1996) Video and sound installation
Last Rites (Positano) (1995) Mixed media interactive video and sound installation
Oblique House (Valdez) (1993) Mixed media interactive video and sound installation
Noah's Raven (1993) Mixed media video and sound installation
MASS: Between a Rockand a Hard Place (1990) with Elizabeth Streb. Videotape
MASS (1990) with Elizabeth Streb. Mixed media video and sound installation
Asylum (A Romance) (1986) Mixed media video and sound installation
Wilderness (1986) Mixed media video and sound installation
Amphibian (1985) with Elizabeth Streb. Performance
Wintergarden (1984) Mixed media video and sound installation
Ohio at Giverny (1983) Video and sound installation
Ohio to Giverny: Memory of Light (1983) videotape
Denman's Col (Geometry) (1981) video and sound installation
Planet (1980) Video installation
Equinox (1979) Video installation
Bird's Eye (1978) Videotape
Paris Dawn Burn (1977) Mixed media video and sound installation
Untitled Display System (1975 - 77) Live video camera installation
Dawn Burn (1975) Mixed media video installation
Air Writing (1975) Video installation
Fire Writing (1975) Performance/Videotape; DVD (2006)
Antique (1973) Mixed media video installation
Polaroid Image Series (1969 - 1974) Series of black & white slides for performance with Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room; 4 DVDs (2006)