Andrew Norman Wilson
Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist based in New York. He is known for expansive research and documentary based projects as well as, drawings, sculptures and mixed media works. One of his most lauded works, ScanOps is “based on Google Books images in which software distortions, the scanning site, and the hands of the book-scanning “ScanOps” employees are visible.Through varied analog presentations, the aesthetics of the images and the apparatuses that produced them are foregrounded over the originally intended content. These re-materializations are treated as photography— taking the form of framed image-sculptures, compiled in a mobile book-sculpture, and presented in a performance-lecture.”
Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include the 2016 Gwangju Biennale, the Berlin Biennale, the 2016 Bucharest Biennale, Bread and Roses at the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, CCS Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Yvon Lambert in Paris, and MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. His work has screened in Les Rencontres Internationales, the New York Film Festival, Prospectif Cinema at the Centre Pompidou, #VOICEOVER at the Palais de Tokyo, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Images Festival. His work has been …
Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist based in New York. He is known for expansive research and documentary based projects as well as, drawings, sculptures and mixed media works. One of his most lauded works, ScanOps is “based on Google Books images in which software distortions, the scanning site, and the hands of the book-scanning “ScanOps” employees are visible.Through varied analog presentations, the aesthetics of the images and the apparatuses that produced them are foregrounded over the originally intended content. These re-materializations are treated as photography— taking the form of framed image-sculptures, compiled in a mobile book-sculpture, and presented in a performance-lecture.”
Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include the 2016 Gwangju Biennale, the Berlin Biennale, the 2016 Bucharest Biennale, Bread and Roses at the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, CCS Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Yvon Lambert in Paris, and MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. His work has screened in Les Rencontres Internationales, the New York Film Festival, Prospectif Cinema at the Centre Pompidou, #VOICEOVER at the Palais de Tokyo, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Images Festival. His work has been featured in Aperture, Art in America, Artforum, Buzzfeed, e-flux journal, Frieze, Gizmodo/Gawker, The New Yorker, and Wired.
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