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Gina Osterloh (b.1973)

Gina Osterloh (b.1973) Grid #3 Gina Osterloh's practice considers the operations of mimesis and perception, together with new ways of addressing identity through photography, film, video, and performance. Her photographs explore the relationship between the physical body and its representational imprint, trace, or stand-in, as well as representing line drawings for the camera, including constructed life-size room environments activated by way of still performances, papier-mâché models and cardboard cutouts. Osterloh's Grid #3 (Nothing to See Here There Never Was) belongs to her series of grid prints which depict wavering, hand-drawn grid lines on panels of paper that extend down toward a wall and onto the floor below. Their scale, quivering energy and uneasy translation of physical space give the viewer a distinct impression that the artist has just left the scene. Biography: Gina Osterloh (b. 1973, Texas, USA) earned a BA in Media Studies at DePaul University, and an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of California - Irvine. She teaches a diverse range of photography, performance art, and time-based media classes throughout the Greater Los Angeles area and in various universities such as the Department of Art of The Ohio State University. Her honors and awards include a Fulbright in the Philippines, a Woodstock Center of Photography residency, and a Create Cultivate Grant with LACE and the LA County Arts Commission. Recent projects include the performance Prick, Prick, Prick--part of ongoing research examining call and response relationships between the body and the photographic frame, as well as repetition and rhythm produced by speech and actions. Osterloh's 16mm film Press and Outline investigates the act of tracing of her own shadow and the origins of photography located in the desire to make the image of self (and the other) permanent. Her group exhibitions include: Second Sight, New Representations in Photography (2015), Torrance Art Museum, California, USA; This is Not America: Resistance, Protest and Poetics (2016), Arizona State University Museum, Arizona, USA; Race, Love, and Labor (2014), Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York, USA; Material Object (2014), Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, USA. Her solo exhibitions include: Press, Erase, Outline, Slice, Strike, Make an X, Prick (2014) Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, USA; Anonymous Front (2012), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA; Group Dynamic and Improper Light (2012) , LACE, Los Angeles, USA; and Nothing to See Here There Never Was (2015), Silverlens Gallery,Manila, Philippines. Collaborative projects include Outside Crease of the Elbow at Commonwealth & Council with Paris-based artist Ana Vega (2014). Her work has been reviewed in Art Forum, The New Yorker, Art in America, Art Asia Pacific, Art Monthly Australia, Art Ltd., Art on Paper and Art Practical. References: http://www.ginaosterloh.com http://www.silverlensgalleries.com/artists/gina-osterloh http://higherpictures.com/artists/gina-osterloh/ http://ghebaly.com/work/ginaosterloh/ 2018 collage (ink marks on paper, cut and glued on board) 41" x 28" (104 cm x 70 cm)