Jacki Apple

Jacki Apple is an American artist, writer, composer, producer and educator based in New York. She has worked in various disciplines such as performance art and installation art. As well as art making, Apple is also a prolific writer, penning over 200 reviews and critical essays on topics such as performance art, media arts, installation art and dance. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Performing Arts Journal, Public Art Review and The Drama Review. She is currently a professor in the department of Humanities and Design Science at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Biography

Apple is a multimedia and performance artist who has been recording and performing since 1971. She has presented works nationally and internationally, with presentations in New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Ireland, and Canada. In 1976, she published her first books, Partitions, this was followed up by Trunk Pieces released in 1978. She attended Syracuse University in 1959 and 1960. Apple graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1963.[1] Born in New York, she currently resides in Los Angeles where she continues to perform and record. Apple has been a professor at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California since 1983.[2] She teaches courses in modernist cultural history, ecology of fashion and performance art.

Work

Apple's career began in the early 1970s, beginning with installations, feminist performance art pieces as well as more conceptual artworks dealing with the subjects of image and identity. The first of these performances took place in 1971. 'Transfer', a collaboration with Pamela Kraft, the concept was based around the idea of four people, with every relationship between two people, having the ability to see yourself and how others see you.[3]

In the 1980s, Apple moved to Los Angeles where alongside her interdisciplinary practice which included site-specific installations and collaborative performance pieces. In the 1990s, she continued her performance based work, but began branching out into other areas such as radio and publishing. She has published a series of books that dealt with issues pertaining to the environment. The Culture of Disappearance series deals with biological as well as cultural extinction. In the You Don't Need A Weatherman series, Apple touched on meteorological and environmental phenomena like floods, droughts, the climate in crisis.[2]

Awards and recognition

  • 2012 College Art Association recipient Distinguished Teaching of Art Award
  • Durfee Foundation Visual Arts Grant 2008, 2003[4]
  • Art Center College of Design Faculty Enrichment Grant 2007, 2001
  • California Arts Council Artists Fellowship New Genres 1996
  • National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts grant 1991-92
  • Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Media Arts grant 1990
  • VESTA Award in Media Arts 1990
  • Santa Monica Arts Commission Grant 1989
  • National/State/County Partnership project grant 1987
  • National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts grant 1984
  • New York State Council on the Arts Multimedia grant 1981
  • National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship 1981,1979
  • NEA Museum Program project grant 1980
  • ZBS Foundation Residency Grant 1978[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Apple, Jacki". North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century a Biographical Dictionary. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. 2013. ISBN 1-135-63889-6.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Jacki Apple". SpacesGallery.org. Spaces Gallery. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Love, Barbara J. (2006). Feminists who changed America, 1963-1975. Urbana, Illinois: Univ. of Illinois Press. p. 17. ISBN 9780252031892.
  4. ↑ "Jacki Apple". Durfee.org. The Durfee Foundation. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Apple, Jacki. "Jacki Apple". LinkedIn.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.

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