Tricia McLaughlin
Working with 3D design, animation, painting and sculpture, Tricia McLaughlin plays with the ideas of restructuring behavior in the creation of her realm of fantasy architecture and the social structures that arise from it. Based on her own logic, the structures often lead to geometry that is anthropomorphized.
Tricia received an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from Syracuse University. Among the grants and fellowships that she has been awarded, Tricia has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her 3D animation, a Travel Grant and Media Arts Grant from the Jerome Foundation, and an Artist’s Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her 9 x 90-foot animation “Virginia Beach Aquatecture” was commissioned by the Virginia Beach Convention Center as part of the building’s 360-foot video wall. Tricia’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally.
Tricia lives and works in Harlem, NY, USA. She is represented by TFLR Contemporary in New York.
Tricia McLaughlin, photo courtesy of the artist
PROJECT: Delirious
October 22 - November 30, 2021
10 Times Square Billboard, South East Corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue
PRESENTED BY ZAZ CORNER “IN BETWEEN”
The animation, “delirious” comes from Tricia McLaughlin’s fascination with human logic and invention. The mutant creatures, such as Granny Chicken, Bike Bird, and Red Amoeba (among others), are first created as paintings that are placed in a clean, antiseptic 3D space. This space is an imagined New York City block where the mutant creatures come to live in freeform chaos. But their delirious movements begin to conform to the architecture as they are forced to avoid rigid walls and statues.
One particular statue, the 3D Leggo Eggo sculpture, is first an obstruction that they must walk around, but then Leggo Eggo calmly walks away from its post, disrupting the new-found order it initially imposed on the mutants. And as an egg, the sculpture comes to life, suggesting perhaps to birth another world where delirium may again ensue. (The title “delirious” references Rem Koolhaus’ iconic book on New York City, “Delirious New York.”)
Image from video Delirious
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