Nikita Gale (born 1983, Anchorage, Alaska)[2][3] is an American visual artist based in Los Angeles, California.
Nikita Gale | |
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| Born | Nikita Gale 1983 (age 40–41) Anchorage, Alaska, US |
| Occupation | Installation artist |
| Known for | Installations |
Education
editGale received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Anthropology with a focus on Archaeological Studies from Yale University in 2006[4][5][6] and a Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA) in New Genres from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016.[7]
Career
editIn 2018, the Pérez Art Museum Miami acquired Gale's AN ABUNDANT LOSS for its permanent collection.[8]
As of 2021, Gale has served on the Board of Directors for GREX, the West Coast affiliate of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI).[9]
In 2022 Gale was commissioned by BMW to create new artworks for BMW Open Work at Frieze London.[10]
Art Practices
editThe artist's many artworks show how different elements effect each other, for example noise and visibility to configurate what is seen and by who and how those effect the final outcome. Her sculptures blur the lines to bring attention to important matters like race issues. Her works address both technology and natural life.[11]
Artwork
edit- US VS US[12] Created in 2020, Nikita Gale produced US VS US.[13] Amidst the protest of the Black Lives Matter Movement, this interactive slideshow which consists of 200 flowers, representing the killings of innocent people, and LAPD equipment gear. Gale’s artwork allows the audience to visit a web page and scroll down to view the images. In between, Gale uses June Jordan’s poem, “Letter to the Local Police,[14]” which “satirically takes up the voice of an insipid suburban resident writing a letter to the police to level a complaint about roses” (nikitagale.com[15]). Gale connects her work, which is about corruption and abuse towards innocent lives, with Jordan’s poem, which displays her environment as a façade to what is actually going on in the world.
- Tempo Rubato (Stolen Time) 2023-2024 Shown at the Whitney Biennial, the work consists of a modified player piano which silently replays piano performances by pop musicians. The sound of the piano keys moving is picked up, amplified and relayed through loudspeakers. Spotlights illuminate the mechanical performance. Gale says the work aims to examine how music and the labor of producing music is turned into intellectual property. By silencing the sound performance, which is protected by copyright law, the piece draws attention to the work of creating the performance which, the artist found, has a much more uncertain legal status. This unclear status deprives artists of just compensation, Gale claims.[16][17]
Exhibitions and projects
editSolo exhibitions
- Nikita Gale: PRIVATE DANCER, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2021
- Wild Frictions. Politische Poesien der Störung (Wild Frictions. Political poetries of disorder), Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, 2021
- IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS, Chisenhale, London, UK, 2022
- TAKERS, LAXART, Los Angeles, California, 2022
- Nikita Gale: END OF SUBJECT, 52 Walker (David Zwirner), New York, NY, 2022. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes.[18] Reviewed in Art in America.[19]
- BENEATH TONGUES, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, 2022
Performances
- Nikita Gale, AUDIENCING, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, 2020
- Performa 23, Performa, New York, NY
Group exhibitions
- Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2017-2018
- Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
- Whitney Biennial 2024, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2024
References
edit- ^ Thackara, Tess (September 19, 2017). "The Exhibition Series That Launched Some of the Most Famous Artists of Color Gets Its Latest Chapter". Artsy. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
- ^ Williams, Wyatt. "Conceptual artist Nikita Gale explores the language of advertising, one photograph at a time". Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- ^ wall, Clocks, paint on. "Nikita Gale: END OF SUBJECT". 52walker.com. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Nikita Gale – Southern Constellations Fellow". Elsewhere. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- ^ "ABOUT". Nikita Gale. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
- ^ "CV". NIKITA GALE. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
- ^ "MFA 2016 Exhibitions". UCLA Department of Art. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- ^ Kinsella, Eileen (December 7, 2018). "The Pérez Art Museum Miami Nabs Works by Two Emerging Young Artists With Its NADA Acquisition Fund—See Them Here". Artnet News. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
- ^ "UCLA Design Media Arts | People | Nikita Gale". dma.ucla.edu. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
- ^ "Nikita Gale's Artwork For BMW Open Work At Frieze London Explores The Politics Of Sound". Forbes. October 5, 2022. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
- ^ "About Nikita Gale".
- ^ "US VS US by Nikita Gale". Cloaca Projects. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ Gale, Nikita (2020). "US VS. US". nikitagale.
- ^ Foundation, Poetry (May 24, 2023). "Letter to the Local Police by June Jordan". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ Gale, Nikita (2020). "Nikita Gale".
- ^ Whitney Museum of American Art. "Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing". whitney.org. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ Whitney Museum of American Art. "Whitney Biennial 2024 Floor 6". whitney.org. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ wall, Clocks, paint on. "Nikita Gale: END OF SUBJECT". 52walker.com. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Valinsky, Rachel (May 1, 2022). "Nikita Gale". Art in America. 110 (3): 87–88.