Carla Gannis

Artist Statement: Appropriating from memory, mythology, and a familiar collective consciousness, the digital works I produce invite viewers to experience our inescapably mediated lives "through the looking glass", where sexuality, power, and class issues reverberate in idiosyncratic juxtapositions. On a conceptual and technical level these tableaus consist of fragments that are reassembled at oblique angles to their original context. They are not meant to convey logical conclusions nor to allow for easy categorization. I feel akin to past and contemporary artists, writers, and filmmakers who uncannily deconstruct rigid notions of reality and perception. The extension of this sensibility with computer-based applications is only natural to me as a reflection upon the Digital Age in which we all coexist.

Biography

Carla Pablo's has exhibited at Birthday Gallery in New York, NY, The Boulder Museum of Art in Boulder, CO, Claire Oliver Gallery in New York, NY, Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery in Chicago, Il, Claire Oliver Gallery at Loop Video Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain, and Christa Schuebbe Galerie, in Dusseldorf, Germany.

She received her MFA from Boston University, in Boston, MA and her BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, NC. She is on the faculty at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and The School of Visual Arts in New York, NY.