Kelly Richardson | ‘Leviathan’ (detail), 2011 | 48′ x 9′, 3 screen HD video installation with audio
Originally commissioned by Artpace San Antonio
and shot on Caddo Lake in Uncertain, Texas, ‘Leviathan’ depicts the area’s indigenous bald Cypress trees in their swamp environment. Within the water are undulating tendrils of yellow light which could be the birth of primordial life, the emergence of an unknown aquatic creature or a manmade disaster of epic proportions. – Lana Shafter
Kelly Richardson has been widely acclaimed in North America, Asia and Europe. Her work was selected for the Beijing, Gwangju and Busan biennales, and major moving image exhibitions including the
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, USA) and Caixaforum (Barcelona, Spain),
Videosphere: A New Generation at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, USA) and
Visions Fugitives at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France). Her video installations have been included in the Toronto International Film Festival as part of Future Projections (2012), Sundance Film Festival in New Frontier (2011 and 2009) and in 2009, she was honoured as the featured artist at the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards. Richardson’s work has been acquisitioned into significant museum collections across the UK, USA and Canada, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Albright-Knox Art Gallery to the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Towner. Kelly Richardson was born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada in 1972.
http://kellyrichardson.net/
