Colette Copeland
| Colette Copeland | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 22, 1966 Baltimore, Maryland |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Pratt Institute, University of Miami, Syracuse University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Video Art, Performance Art, Sculptural Installation |
| Movement | Contemporary, Conceptual, Feminist, Neo-fluxus |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Ian Williams |
| 🌐 Website | Colette Copeland |
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Colette Copeland (born 1966, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American multimedia, conceptual artist and cultural critic. She uses video, photography, performance and sculptural installation to explore issues surrounding gender, death and contemporary culture.[1][2] She currently resides in Dallas, Texas.
Education
Colette Copeland studied fashion design, merchandising and management at Pratt Institute in New York City from 1984-1988 receiving a BFA in merchandising with a minor in photography. From 1997-1998, she studied photography in the graduate program at the University of Miami. From 1999-2001, she continued her graduate work at Syracuse University[2][3] receiving a full fellowship in the Transmedia Department. She received her MFA in 2001.
Selected Works
Abortion Dialogues (1997-1999, 2005, 2006)
The multimedia photographic and sound installation is an experimental documentary project that involved two years of interviewing and photographing women and their experiences with abortion. Spurred by the violence against abortion clinics and doctors, as well as the politicization and polarization of the issue, the work challenges stereotypes surrounding the subject, focusing on humanizing and giving voice to the individuals and their experiences.[4][5][6][7][8] “We are invited by Copeland’s installation to enter into a dialogue about abortion rather than a debate, to listen--and respond--not merely to “issues” but human beings.”[4]
Chicalaleeoh (2006)
Digital Video with original music composed by William Harper
Copeland unravels and reconstructs to question the American bridal myth, as she explains, “The video critically explores society’s emphasis on marriage as the pinnacle of a girl’s success.”[3]
Gordon Sisters Redeux (2007)
Digital Video
Inspired by the 1901 Thomas Edison film, Gordon Sisters' Boxing, the video pays homage to early photographic and cinematic studies of the human body in motion, while humorously recreating the spectacle of Victorian women engaged in 'unfeminine' athletic performance. “Copeland has discovered a means to historically and hysterically recall outmoded gender norms and to celebrate change, equal opportunity and fulfillment.”[3]
Mydeath.com (2007)
Digital Video
The video, "Mydeath.com" (a.k.a. how to plan a funeral in 90 seconds or less) humorously asserts the Internet as the ultimate commodified marketplace. Recontextualizing images downloaded from various ‘death’ websites, the work celebrates the bombardment of visual information questioning the point at which we reach saturation and how we decipher what information is accurate.[3][9]
Ossa (2009)
Stop-action Animation
Animator Christopher Dunkle and Colette Copeland create a magical, dark world inspired by the Brothers Quay and Tim Burton's “Corpse Bride”. “Playing with traits from the horror film genre Copeland creates a sinister tongue -in-cheek dance of death in a kingdom of animal spirits.”[9][10]
Bobbitmania (2012)
Digital video with original music composed by William Harper
Commissioned for Magmart International Video Festival, the work is a creative interpretation of the notorious case of John and Lorena Bobbitt.[11]
Reflections On the Way to the Gallows (2011-2013)
The video series is the result of extensive research about the women who have been publicly executed in Pennsylvania between 1692-1834 and in Texas from 1850’s to the present. Filming at the sites of the former gallows, as well as creating narratives based on historical documents, the work uncovers hidden histories, making the absent/present.[12] “The cinematic or indirect examination of the cruel deaths of these women puts a truth about them. Not a linear truth or an explicit one, but an equally powerful emotional one.”[13]
The Victorian Woman (2011-2018)
A series of eight performance videos.
Inspired by Dada, Theater of the Absurd, Situationist Theater and contemporary performance art, the work humorously questions gendered cultural norms. Copeland’s alter-ego has shot arrows, a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR 15, ridden a mechanical bull at the Mesquite rodeo, flown a plane, wrestled THE MAN and reunited with THE MAN for BALL and Chain. She also traveled to Nueces County to compete in the 43rd World Championship Rattlesnake Races. The Victorian Woman Series culminated in Bearding (2017) where she ritually shaved THE MAN’s beard in a not-so-sly nod to the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, then grew a beard and competed in the Dallas Beard competition earning 3rd prize.[1][14][15][16]
Becoming Colette (2016)
The work is a multi-dimensional project involving a performative journey into the literary history of Paris and more specifically into the fictional stories of the French author Colette (the artist’s namesake). Copeland filmed at the sites where writer Colette lived and wrote, searching for connections between the author and herself. The resulting exhibition featured four video book sculptures, a series of prints, and an original audio work that embodies visual and textual palimpsests, simultaneously revealing and obscuring the aspects of both the woman and the writer, as well as her connection to place.[17][18][19]
COG (2018)
The video was produced for a London performance and video group exhibition examining themes of romance that subvert hereonormativity and reject patriarchal power. The work was inspired by a Victorian female couple Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper who were collaborative authors and lifetime partners. Contemporaries of Robert Browning and Oscar Wilde, the two were known and published under the same name Michael Field. COG pays homage to their life and spirit of inseparable oneness.[20]
My Jesse James Adventure (2017-2020)
The project addresses ancestral legacy, fake news, the cultural mythos of criminals, specifically how the icon Jesse James was/is presented and commodified in books, films, comics and historical sites, as well as the current and problematic fascination with DNA networks such as ancestryDNA.com. Copeland has ancestral ties to the famous outlaws Jesse and Frank James. She filmed at each of the sites where the gang lived and outlawed. The resulting work includes a multimedia installation featuring 22 videos, solar plate etchings, an original musical score composed by Dallin B. Peacock and an audio guide featuring Dallas actor Ike Duncan.[21][22][23]
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2005 Abortion Dialogues, Museum, Kolkata, India
- 2006 Abortion Dialogues, Goethe Institute Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh in conjunction with Mela International Photography Festival[8]
- 2010 Colette Copeland-- Live, Laugh & Die: Unraveling Contemporary Culture and Media, The Weeks Gallery at Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, New York[3]
- 2013 Reflections on the Way to the Gallows, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas [12]
- 2016 Becoming Colette, The Reading Room Gallery, Dallas, Texas [17][18][19]
- 2020 My Jesse James Adventure, SPIN Gallery, Dallas, Texas[21][22][23]
- 2021 My Jesse James Adventure, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas[24][25]
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 1995 New York Soho Biennial 1995,450 Broadway Gallery, New York, New York[26]
- 2005 Heartfelt, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida[27]
- 2008 The New Millennium Isn’t Space-Age, It’s Raw, Scope Art Fair, New York, New York
- 2009 A Book About Death, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, New York[28]
- 2011 The Carnival of Death, University of London Gallery, London, UK[9]
- 2013 The Sweetest Taboo, Red Arrow Contemporary Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas[14]
- 2014 100x100=900 International Video Festival featured at Video in Progress 5: Reflections of the Past, Ljubljana, Slovenia, One Shot International Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia, Oran Biennial, Oran, Algeria, Demolden Video Project, Santander, Spain, Room Kent, UK Egalpon Espacio, Lima, Peru and 14 other countries.[11]
- 2018 Concept 2018, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA Museum), Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea[20]
- 2019 Madatac X Film Festival, Madrid, Spain[29]
- 2020 New Mediafest 2020 curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, online global traveling video festival[30]
- 2020 The Salina Biennial--Contemporary Art from the Mountain-Plains Region, Salina Art Center, Salina Kansas[31]
Honors
- 1998 Michele Edelson Award in Photography, University of Miami
- 1999 Fellowship Award, Syracuse University
- 2005 Leeway Art & Change Grant Recipient[32][3][4]
- 2006 Distinguished Teaching Award, Critical Writing Department, University of Pennsylvania[33]
- 2017 Finalist for Associate Faculty of the Year Award, Collin College, Texas[34]
- 2020 Kevin Mullin Memorial Award for Achievement in Visual Art and Community Activism[35]
Writing
Copeland has been a member of the International Association of Art Critics since 2011 and has written for various art publications including Glasstire Magazine, Arteidolia, Eutopia Contemporary Art Review, Ceramics: Art & Perception, Exposure, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, and The Photo Review.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Artist Interview with Salina Biennial Director Gretchen Boyum". YouTube. November 8, 2020. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Copeland, Colette (June 16, 2016). "Colette Copeland". ARTiculAction Art Review. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Colby, James (2010). "Colette Copeland Live Laugh & Die: Unraveling Contemporary Culture and Media". The Weeks Gallery at Jamestown Community College. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Malague, Rose (2005). "The Abortion Dialogues". Carbon 14 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
- ↑ "Don't Terminate the Dream; Take It Forward". Kolkata, India: Hindustan Times. December 5, 2005.
- ↑ "Aborting the Truth". Kolkata, India: The Statesman. January 28, 2005.
- ↑ "In Life & Death". Kolkata, India: The Indian Express. November 26, 2005.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Chobi Mela IV: Internation Festival of Photography, Bangladesh 2006". Dhaka, Bangladesh: Chobi Mela Secretariat (Dhaka, Bangladesh). pp. 102–103.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Vidal, Ricarda (February 2011). "The Carnival of Death". University of London Gallery, London, UK. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ "October Art Cinema: Ossa by Colette Copeland". Fjord's Review. October 18, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "100x100=900 Catalogue". Portugal: Magmart Festival. ISBN 978-1-291-69608-0. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Returning to Narrative". 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas. November 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
- ↑ Bailey, Richard (2013). "Reflections On the Way to the Gallows". Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Bailey, Richard (September 17, 2013). "The Sweetest Taboo". Glasstire. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ Waligore, Marilyn (2018). "Women's Work" (PDF). SPIN Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ "Studio Visit 1.2". Cris Worley Gallery, Dallas, Texas. January 17 – February 15, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2021.CS1 maint: Date format (link)
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Gorday, Shelby (December 29, 2015). "The Two Colettes: Vive La Diff?rence". Patron Art/Culture/Design. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Hallock, Jeremy (January 15, 2016). "See Some Alter Ego Art at The Reading Room Saturday". Dallas Observer. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Escobedo, Lee (January 18, 2016). "Show Up: Colette Copeland". Arts & Culture Texas. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Concept 2018". Gimpo-si Gyeonggi-do, Korea: CICA Museum. June 29 – July 15, 2018. Retrieved August 15, 2021.CS1 maint: Date format (link)
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Five Minute Tours: Colette Copeland at SPIN Gallery". University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas: Glasstire. September 3, 2020. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Meet Colette Copeland: Multimedia Artists, Art Educator, Arts Writer & Budding Aerialist". Shoutout DFW. August 12, 2020. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Sily, Randee (August 2020). "Colette Copeland: My Jesse James Adventure, SPIN Gallery, Dallas, Texas". Arteidolia. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ "TSU Art Gallery". Stephenville, Texas: Tarleton State University. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Colette Copeland - My Jesse James Adventure". Clyde H. Wells Gallery of Art - Tarleton State University. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Soho Biennial Catalog". New York, New York: Soho Biennial Press. 1995.
- ↑ Blakely, George; Aguilera-Hellweg, Max (2005). Heartfelt: Museum of Fine Arts, October 7 - November 20, 2005. Florida State University Press. ISBN 978-1-889-28216-9. Search this book on
- ↑ "A Book About Death". Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, New York. September 10–22, 2009. Retrieved August 15, 2021.CS1 maint: Date format (link)
- ↑ "Madatac X Film Festival". Madrid, Spain. February 23, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne. "New Mediafest 2020". online global traveling video festival. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ "Salina Biennial: Contemporary Art from the Mountain Plains Region". Salina Kansas: Salina Art Center. April 2020. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ "2005 Art and Change Grant". Leeway Foundation. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ Darrow, Heather (September 5, 2017). "Collin Celebrates Exceptional Professors". Collin College News. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ "Collin Celebrates Exceptional Professors". Collin College News. September 5, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ "Salina Biennial Kevin Mullins Memorial Award given to Colette Copeland". Salina Journal. May 7, 2020. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
External Links
- Colette Copeland - Artist's Website
- AICA - International Association of Art Critics
- Visual Arts - Tarleton State University
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