John newcomb artist biography
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Newcomb Art Alumni
Though her work may feature recycled materials, garbage, and even plants, installation artist Phoebe Washburn (NC '96) wouldn't exactly call her work a political statement about the environment.
"My art is more playful than political," says Washburn.
"I'm trying to find ways to map out space, to show systems. And in finding ways to have all that, I began using recycled materials and finding new purposes for things."
The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Washburn has made quite the splash around the world with her work, which has been displayed from Los Angeles to Denmark. The prestigious Whitney Museum 2008 Biennial in New York recognized her work, and her reputation continues to grow.
Washburn's work is visually striking and complex. Consider her piece Nunderwater Nort Lab, a 2011 creation that took up the main space at Zach Feuer, the New York gallery that represents her. The piece was centered around a massive cylindrical structure constructed out of reused two-by-fours. Audio was pumped in, while objects such as growing green plants under lights and used Gatorade pouches were posed.
Her 2013 installation, Pressure Drop for Richard Strands (a history of one thing to another in lemon-aideness) at Kunsthallen Brants in Odense, Denmark, was a larg
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Biography
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