Art

Cave of Crystals

A site-specific installation representing an abstraction of the geometric forms found on Selenite crystal caves. Installed in a stairwell of the Medina Highschool, as part of the 2019 PLAY/GROUND exhibition, a Resource:Art project in partnership with Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo)

Keep reading

Auxiliary Constructions

A series of sculptures inspired by aggregate forms found in nature, such as tree rings, crystal formations, and graded landscapes. The work triggers complex stimuli for the viewer/participant, enabling a cross-dialog between architecture and the senses. The public is encouraged to endlessly modify the structures, allowing for…

Keep reading

Threadware

Abstract works using thread, cloth, wire and natural fibers. The exhibition is a celebration of the handmade at a time of heightened industrialization, as a quest to find a more modern expression of the materials and methods. The result are hybrid shapes and forms that echo both…

Keep reading

Who Are We

A collaborative exploration of form, light and density. A latex curtain provides a diffused presence of the human body, which gets weighted and deformed as it balances on the edge of a water body. Performance by Alicia Marvan and Johannes Zits. Video and sculpture by Anne O’Callaghan.…

Keep reading

Alegría

Edible sculptures incorporating history and nourishment through a visual-poetic synthesis of literature from the Spanish conquest in Mexico. Extracting symbology about gold and amaranth (two goods that suffered from colonization), the project draws physical and conceptual parallels between the two materials. Amaranth, a little-known crop of the…

Keep reading

Analogous Structures

A site-specific performance amongst Ernesto Neto’s fragrant installation “Mother Body Emotional Densitites, for Alive Temple Time Baby Son”, made of lycra and spices. Concept and direction: Alicia Marván. Development and performance: Jane Blount, Ron Estes, Justin Morrison, Leslie Seiters and Jessica Radulovich. Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Duration:…

Keep reading

Zero-crossings

A site-specific performance amongst Richard Serra’s sculptures, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. In mathematics, a “zero-crossing” is a point where a graph crosses the horizontal axis (zero value). Inspired by the term and the site’s constant flux of people from USA and Mexico,…

Keep reading

Incubation

A movement study by Alicia Marván. Performed by Alicia Marván and Margaret Paek. Music by Hans Fjellestad. Presented by Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego CA. Duration: 3 minutes.

Keep reading