Jennifer Bolande
“I was walking down the street and I noticed a globe in a school [window] on Avenue B in New York. It stopped me in my tracks and I went home, got my camera and photographed it. I had this peculiar feeling—I was looking at inner space from the street, but it looked like outer space, because there was this very deep black behind it. . . . It was the early 2000s, and the word ‘global’ was being thrown around for the first time. I had this feeling that the earth was shrinking every time someone used the word ‘global’ and that through the act of witnessing these little globes in windows, I was preventing it from shrinking further.”
Jennifer Bolande (b. 1957, Cleveland, Ohio) earned a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Solo exhibitions include venues such as Artists Space, New York, USA; Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; The Kitchen, New York, USA; Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; Metro Pictures, New York, USA; INOVA, Milwaukee, USA; Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland; MoMA PS1, Queens, USA; among others. She currently lives and works in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles, California.
Image in menu: Jennifer Bolande, Globe Sightings: West 37th Street, NYC, 2000. C-print, 25 × 29.5 inches. Courtesy the artist.
Jennifer Bolande
“I was walking down the street and I noticed a globe in a school [window] on Avenue B in New York. It stopped me in my tracks and I went home, got my camera and photographed it. I had this peculiar feeling—I was looking at inner space from the street, but it looked like outer space, because there was this very deep black behind it. . . . It was the early 2000s, and the word ‘global’ was being thrown around for the first time. I had this feeling that the earth was shrinking every time someone used the word ‘global’ and that through the act of witnessing these little globes in windows, I was preventing it from shrinking further.”
Jennifer Bolande (b. 1957, Cleveland, Ohio) earned a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Solo exhibitions include venues such as Artists Space, New York, USA; Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; The Kitchen, New York, USA; Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; Metro Pictures, New York, USA; INOVA, Milwaukee, USA; Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland; MoMA PS1, Queens, USA; among others. She currently lives and works in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles, California.
Image in menu: Jennifer Bolande, Globe Sightings: West 37th Street, NYC, 2000. C-print, 25 × 29.5 inches. Courtesy the artist.