Selected Galleries/ paintings
Galerie Annette Huster, 1999/2011, Paris.
Galerie Jacques Lévy, 2000/2004, Paris.
Galerie Jean Fournier, 2004, Paris.
Selected Art Fairs/ paintings
Venice Biennale, l’art de l’apparence, l’apparence de l’art, 2011, Venise.
NEXT/art chicago, 2011, Chicago.
Scope Miami, 2010, Miami.
Cutlog, 2010, Paris.
Salon de Montrouge, 2001, Montrouge.
Selected Scenographies/ la tagueuse élégante
Hôtel de Crillon, 2017/2019, Paris.
Céline Wright, 2016, Paris.
Musée des Beaux Arts de Tournai, 2016, Belgium.
Salon Maison et Objet, 2016, Paris.
Banque CIC, 2014, Paris.
Le MEDEF, 2014, Paris.
American Friends of the Musée d’Orsay, 2014, Paris.
État Libre d’Orange, 2014, Paris.
Ken Okada, 2013, Paris.
Paris Design Week, 2011, Paris.
Selected Invited Residencies/
Corneroh, 2023, The Hague NL.
La Soulane, 2022/23, Haute-Pyrénées France.
Chateau de Monthélon, 2017, Bourgogne.
The Banff Centre, 2014, Canada.
Selected Publications/
Journal of Embodied Research
Critical Correpondence
Imagined Theatres
paintings
In 1997, I exploded my American Dream when I quit the running big complicated urban projects in NYC to paint in Paris.
My first show came two years later, and my work was shown and collected in the offs of the Venice Biennale, Art Chicago, FIAC and artbasel/Miami. There is even a piece on a yacht between a Diebenkorn and a Motherwell. Well.
There are pieces still available here.
" A Haiku becoming a poem." George Peck
la tagueuse élégante
La tagueuse élégante is an art and performance project of calligraphy writ large.
When I was still painting full time, a gallery offered me a show on my handwriting alone. For the first edition of Paris Design Week, a chic boutique asked me
to write the name of the store on every scrap of their 30 square meters of wall
and facade.
La tagueuse élégante was born. She has tagged the luxury palace Hôtel Crillon, Courrèges, the Banque CIC, the American Friends of the Musée d’Orsay, Etat Libre d’Orange, fashion designer Ken Okada and Liquides Imaginaires.
La tagueuse élégante writes on walls, windows and you if you don’t move fast enough.
*thanks to Bruno Aragones for naming me.poems
look left
She is there
lonely rebel
unclassified
misunderstood
green and uncategorised
yet strong
ripping hearts
then to rest
creep your yearning heart like ivy to mine
pray like a chirping bird.
cut my hair until there is only a nail file’s worth of fuzz to rub your palms across
chirp again.
seagull seen praying
news flash I prey;
the little bug has gone, the smell of sewage is strong
a modern machine backs up with incessant squeaks .
le soleil entisse
les ombres forts
sous le tilleul mourant
je l’expire.
Pendant sa mort
de l’arbre, dis-je
je méditais
sur mon lâcher-prise
là, il fait le tutoiement
pour apprivoiser
la respiration.
letters
I still believe in paper and pen and pencil and I adore envelopes. My dress for the Venice Biennale was made of 80 envelopes in pink organza. I once wrote a letter that gave birth to a petition that saved the post office in my tiny perched French village. A big part of my artistic practice is writing a daily personal letter to somebody.
Would you like one?
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seriouser writing
Play x Play, Seymour Magazine, 2014
Implicit in Virtuosity, PROVA, Royal College of Art, 2018 (paper publication)
Andrew Morrish in Conversation with Anat Ben-David and 20 students, Critical
Correspondence, Movement Research, 2019
The World getting Smaller, Imagined Theatres, Emergency, April 2020
What’s the Matter, with Anat Ben-David, Journal of Embodied Research, 2020
Prosody, Prodigy – Language as a Lyrical Tool, Improfil, Autumn 2020 (paper)
What IIIF? Nowhere & Everywhere, Improfil, Autumn 2020 (paper)
Silence as the underpin, Improfil, December 2021 (paper)
Held Space, does it need silence too? , Improfil, December 2021 (paper)
A Pedagody of Suspensions - Infrathin Variations between London and Manchester,
with David Roussel, Cole Robertson, Christina MacRae and Agata Kik, 2022.
Letters to my Original Geography - a monthly column in IMPROVNotes of the Institute
of Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph; from April 2021 to
present.