塔瓦雷斯-斯特拉坎 跨学科概念艺术家

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塔瓦雷斯-斯特拉坎
跨学科概念艺术家 | 2022级
拓展艺术的可能性，照亮历史上被忽视的边缘人物的贡献。


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标题
跨学科的概念性艺术家
所属机构
无隶属关系
工作地点
纽约，纽约和纳索，巴哈马
年龄
获奖时为42岁
关注领域
三维视觉艺术, 二维视觉艺术
网站
isolatedlabs.com
玛丽安-古德曼画廊。Tavares Strachan
佩罗丹画廊。Tavares Strachan
社会
聊天室
发表于2022年9月26日
关于塔瓦雷斯的作品
塔瓦雷斯-斯特拉坎是一位艺术家，他将科学、历史和美学调查融合到项目中，体现了人类智慧的力量。他经过广泛研究的作品贯穿了各种媒体和学科。

探索在字面上和主题上都是Strachan实践的一个组成部分。他为他早期的突破性作品《我们所拥有的和我们想要的之间的距离》（2005-2006）去了北极。在那里，他提取了一块4.5吨的冰块，并通过联邦快递将其运到巴哈马。这块冰被放在斯特拉坎以前的小学的场地上，放在一个与麻省理工学院的科学家协商制作的太阳能冷藏箱中。这件作品谈到了二元性的概念，以及身份和与遥远的距离、气候和地理环境有关的位移之间的联系。在随后的作品中，斯特拉坎探索了正态耐受性的现象，或身体承受重力压力的能力。他的研究包括深海探索和在俄罗斯星城的尤里-加加林研究和测试宇航员训练中心的宇航员训练。由此产生的作品之一是《隐形潜水员》（2010年）：一个用手工吹制的玻璃制成的人类循环系统的比例模型。该模型被浸没在一个装满矿物油的玻璃箱中，矿物油的折射率与玻璃相同，因此复杂的解剖结构只能从某些观察角度看到，而从其他角度看则会消失。这项研究促使斯特拉坎建立了B.A.S.E.C.，即巴哈马航空航天和海洋探索中心，这一举措将访问科学家带到拿骚，并为年轻居民提供教育机会。

可见性和不可见性的主题贯穿了斯特拉坎的实践，表现在他努力提高历史上被边缘化的人物的贡献，他们被遗漏在官方记录中。他的《看不见的百科全书》（2018）记录了这些人在广泛领域内的数千项工作和成就。Strachan将《百科全书》作为其他媒体作品的出发点。在2018年的展览中，他将《百科全书》中的个人名字的霓虹灯牌安装在卡内基艺术博物馆的外部楣板上。与已经刻在石头上的伟大历史人物的名字并列，新的霓虹灯名字--如第一个黑人极地探险家马修-汉森或说唱歌手图帕克-沙库尔--因此被提升到本杰明-富兰克林和贝多芬的水平。通过一种罕见的历史和科学探索的结合，通过跨媒体的艺术实践，斯特拉坎正在创造激发好奇心的作品，并推动了艺术的极限。

个人简历
塔瓦雷斯-斯特拉坎获得了罗德岛设计学院的艺术学士学位（2003年）和耶鲁大学的艺术硕士学位（2006年）。他的作品曾在不同的国家和国际场所举办个展和联展，包括西雅图弗莱艺术博物馆、巴尔的摩艺术博物馆、新奥尔良Prospect.3、威尼斯双年展、旧金山现代艺术博物馆和费城当代艺术学院。



Tavares Strachan
Interdisciplinary Conceptual Artist | Class of 2022
Expanding the possibilities for what art can be and illuminating overlooked contributions of marginalized figures throughout history.


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Title
Interdisciplinary Conceptual Artist
Affiliation
Unaffiliated
Location
New York, New York and Nassau, The Bahamas
Age
42 at time of award
Area of Focus
3-D Visual Art, 2-D Visual Art
Website
isolatedlabs.com
Marian Goodman Gallery: Tavares Strachan
Perrotin Gallery: Tavares Strachan
Social
Instagram
Published September 26, 2022
ABOUT TAVARES’S WORK
Tavares Strachan is an artist merging scientific, historical, and aesthetic investigations in projects that exemplify the power of human ingenuity. His extensively researched works weave through various media and disciplines.

Exploration is both literally and thematically an integral component of Strachan’s practice. He traveled to the Arctic for his early break-out piece, The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (2005–2006). There, he extracted a 4.5-ton block of ice and shipped it to the Bahamas via FedEx. The block was displayed on the grounds of Strachan’s former elementary school in a solar-powered refrigerated case made in consultation with scientists from MIT. The work speaks to ideas of duality and to the connection between identity and displacement in relation to vast distances, climates, and geographic environments. In a subsequent body of work, Strachan explores the phenomenon of orthostatic tolerance, or the body’s ability to withstand gravitational stress. His research included deep-sea exploration and cosmonaut training at the Yuri Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. One of the resulting pieces is Invisible Diver (2010): a scale model of the human circulatory system made of hand-blown glass. The model is submerged in a glass case filled with mineral oil that has the same refractive index as the glass, so the intricate anatomy is visible only from certain viewing angles and disappears when viewed from others. This research led Strachan to establish B.A.S.E.C., the Bahamas Aerospace and Sea Exploration Center, an initiative that brings visiting scientists to Nassau and provides educational opportunities for young residents.

Themes of visibility and invisibility run through Strachan’s practice, as manifested in his endeavor to lift up the contributions of marginalized figures in history who have been left out of official records. His Encyclopedia of Invisibility (2018) documents thousands of these individuals’ work and accomplishments across wide-ranging fields. Strachan uses the Encyclopedia as a point of departure for pieces in other media. For a 2018 exhibition, he installed neon signs of individuals’ names from his Encyclopedia on the exterior frieze of the Carnegie Museum of Art. Situated alongside the names of great historical figures already carved into the stone, the new neon names—such as Matthew Henson, the first Black polar explorer, or the rapper Tupac Shakur—are thus raised to the level of Benjamin Franklin and Beethoven. Through a rare combination of historical and scientific inquiry made visible through an artistic practice that reaches across media, Strachan is creating work that inspires curiosity and pushes the limits of what is possible in art.

BIOGRAPHY
Tavares Strachan received a BFA (2003) from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA (2006) from Yale University. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at various national and international venues, including the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Baltimore Museum of Art; Prospect.3, New Orleans; the Venice Biennale; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.