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Estate Corner Defense in Yellow and Mauve by Martine Kaczynski
Estate Corner Defense in Yellow and Mauve by Martine Kaczynski
  • Martine Kaczynski
  • Estate Corner Defense in Yellow and Mauve, 2022
  • PVC, metal, wood, paint
  • 504 x 120 x 36 in (1280.16 x 304.8 x 91.44 cm)
  • Inv: TGG22.02
  • $6,000

My work re-contextualizes everyday objects we rarely notice, initiating a deeper understanding of their symbolic significance within the means and markers of settlement. The word fence comes from the word defense, and although domesticated by material and design, their ubiquity demonstrates the legacy of fortresses in our modern desire for ownership, privacy, and territory. Estate corner fences mark entrance ways and serve no function but one of conspicuous prestige and territorial declaration. Yet they are diminutive and feeble: fence facades. 'Estate Corners in Yellow and Mauve' utilizes signage and color to further abstract this state of architectural and symbolic superficiality. They become second-ordered facades, painted in colors that mock the sentimental urge of personalization and implied status.

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  • Artist: Martine Kaczynski (British, b. 1966)

Martine Kaczynski has been living in New York since she left London in the early 90s and has been exhibiting and teaching since her MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1993. Frequently she develops work on private property that has been awarded to her by various patrons. Her large-scale projects have been exhibited at numerous venues, including Socrates Sculpture Park NYC, Turchin Center in North Carolina, The Lipe Park Syracuse, Rural Projects Gallatin N.Y, Art Austerlitz, And The Millay Art Center Austerlitz N.Y.
She was a NYFA fellow in 1997 and has since been awarded grants from The Artist Fellowship, The Haven Foundation, and The Pat Hearn and Colin DeLand Foundation between 2011 and 2013. She has also been nominated twice for The Rema Horn Foundation in 2008 and 2009. She has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Art, Triangle Residency in Brooklyn New York, Rural Projects in Gallatin New York and is currently at The Arts Letters and Numbers residency in Averill Park New York.
Besides teaching at Pratt College for 15 yrs she has taught sculpture and drawing at Parsons School of Design, Rutgers College, SUNY Purchase Bard College, and Cornell University in the Architecture and Planning Department.