Exhibitions

I'M KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU

ASU Art Museum Moving Target initiative

Arizona State University Art Museum
Sept. 19 - Dec. 12, 2009

Premiered in fall of 2008 as a single channel video project space 

Johnna MacArthur

Johnna MacArthur
Seeker, 2008
Courtesy of the artist

In the artist’s own words:
Seeker
In Seeker, the cops are looking for someone in the middle of the night. The prospective criminal hiding in the dark cover of the garden is both frightening and titillating. Spotlights illuminate the trees, the thundering helicopter circles and circles overhead. The camera stands witness, the microphone and lens straining to record what is in the darkness and unclear. We bear witness under the moon’s light to what we think we see and might see; to what we hear and what we are told we hear; and ultimately, to what we imagine unfolds.

About the artist
Johnna MacArthur currently lives and works in Los Angeles. In 1994 she graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, with a BA and went on to receive an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1996. MacArthur’s work recently has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at: Between You and Me, Like The Spice, Brooklyn, N.Y.; La Meme Chose, Part 1: Wading & The Sieve Portraits, Carnegie Art Center, Buffalo, N.Y.; The Void, The Outline, and The Arrow, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, N.Y. Recent select group exhibitions include: Dark Milk, Denmark; Deer Art, Like The Spice, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Freud: The Creative Analysis of Analysis, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn.; New Work from New York 2, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tenn. In 1997 the artist received the Performance Art Fund from Franklin Furnace and was a Fellow at American Photography Institute.

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