Rebeca Bollinger

Rebeca Bollinger
Nationality American
Alma mater San Francisco Art Institute
Known for sculpture

Rebeca Bollinger (born 1960) is an American sculpture artist. She works with ceramic, bronze, aluminium and glass pieces, which she combines with photographs, videos, drawings and other elements. While the themes she focuses on change from one series to another, she usually focuses on ordinary objects, which are de-contextualized and re-signified in new mediums.[1][2][3]

Education

Rebeca Bollinger received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993 from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2018, she continued her education as an artist-in-residence for the project Art+Process+Ideas, hosted jointly by Mills College Art Department and Mills College Art Museum.[1][4]

Work

Alphabetically Sorted (1994)

This work won Bollinger the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporaty Art (SECA) 1996 Award in Electronic Arts. In this piece, a video, explores how online hypertext reduces the perception of a larger, connected world, to a single screen. In a video, which lasts 5:37 minutes, Bollinger conducts a search of 644 keywords meant to signify erotic content. The words are read by electronic female voice inflections. With this work, Robert R. Riley, curator of Media Arts for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts 1987 - 2000[5], says that Bollinger does a feminist critique of the words, by confronting the symbols and language of the interactive medium.[6]

Similar/Same (1999 - 2000)

This series, which Bollinger worked on from 1999 to 2000, includes video pieces and drawings. In it, the artist looks at the vast culture of images that exist on the Internet, especially looking at the classification strategies implemented by users to organize and access these images.[2] In this series, Bollinger usually arranges the images in a grid, which she titles using key words and buzzwords (for example Important documents, 2000).[7] In this series, Bollinger is interested in exploring personal spaces versus public spaces, where she balances how people make use of available technologies for their private material, and the potential of that reaching enormous audiences. One example of this is the piece Ed Blaze, where the artist shows a collection of what would be someone's private vacation pictures, arrayed in a grid. According to Janet Bishop, with this series, Bollinger reflects on how technology has transformed the way and the form of archival representation, offering, at the same time, equal footing and representation to all files affected by new preservation technologies.[2]

Everything is Everything (2010)

This is an installation of abstract porcelain sculptures and photographs, which recreates objects imported by Bollinger's father from Asia to California.[8] In this work, the artist explores the sentiment that objects can carry.

References

  1. 1 2 "spaces". REBECA BOLLINGER.
  2. 1 2 3 010101 : art in technological times. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, Calif.: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 2001. ISBN 091847163X. OCLC 45393969.
  3. ↑ "Rebeca Bollinger - California College of the Arts". www.cca.edu.
  4. ↑ "ART + PROCESS + IDEAS (A+P+I) EXHIBITION" (PDF). April 17, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  5. ↑ Hamlin, Jesse (January 20, 2000). "SFMOMA Appoints New Media Arts Curator / Benjamin Weil will replace Robert R. Riley". SF Gate. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ Riley, Robert R. (1996). Electronic Media: 1996 SECA Award. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
  7. ↑ "Rebeca Bollinger, Important Documents, 2000". SFMOMA. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Rebeca Bollinger".
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