Mary Lucier
Mary Lucier has been noted for her contributions to the form of multimonitor, multichannel video installation since the early 1970s. After graduating in sculpture and literature from Brandeis University, she became involved in photography and performance while still living in the Boston area. Her work prior to her introduction to video was largely concerned with manipulation of the black-and-white image through a graphic performative process, as in the Polaroid Image Series, designed to accompany I am sitting in a room by Alvin Lucier. She also produced several live performances with the feminist video collective Red, White, Yellow, and Black (along with Shigeko Kubota, Cecilia Sandoval, and Charlotte Warren) at the original Kitchen in 1972 and '73. Since 1975 her mixed-media video works, such as Dawn Burn, Ohio at Giverny, and Wilderness have consistently explored the theme of landscape as a metaphor for loss and regeneration, while subsequent works such as Noah's Raven, House by the Water, and Floodsongs have examined ecological trauma and transformation in more obliquely narrative modes. Lucier's video installations have been shown in major museums and galleries around the world. Many now reside in important collections, among them the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; the National Academy of Design, New York, among others. She has also produced a significant body of single-channel works which have been screened in museums and festivals worldwide. (2023)
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