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Cut Paper Installation | Wall Sculpture | Collage
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DIGEST is a collaboration by sculptor Mia Pearlman, jazz pianist and composer Albert Marquès, and Keith LaMa, a writer, poet, and activist who has spent almost 30 years in solitary confinement on death row in Ohio for a crime he did not commit. |
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SUMA is collaborative project by American sculptor Mia Pearlman and her husband, Catalan jazz pianist Albert Marquès. SUMA, or “sum” in English, means both the aggregate of two or more quantities, and the substantive meaning of a matter. |
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ALLUVIO |
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WEFT, a collaboration by Mia Pearlman (sculpture) and Albert Marques (music) |
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EVIL GARBAGE AND HIS KREMLIN KLAN GESTAPO
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For this exhibition, Pearlman designed a custom wallpaper to line the front window of the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York based on the forms in her installations. On top of this backdrop is a new cut paper installation evoking a deluge or downpour. |
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TUMULT was commissioned by Holly Hunt for their NY store in celebration of their acquisition of Vladamir Kagan Furniture. |
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Installed in the large glass window cases of Foley Gallery on New York's Lower East Side, COEVA is made of two facing site specific installations that sweep viewers off the street and into the gallery. Review in The New Yorker: "The best pieces, notably Mia Pearlman’s crashing waves of cut and painted paper in the windows, dig into the connection between creation and destruction."
Select Cuts and Alterations |
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ONE is composed of two installations that face each other in the Renwick Gallery's Palm Court, both in opposition and interdependent of the other. Caught between these forces, viewers can only see one installation at a time, thus connecting them, and therefore making the work whole, in their minds.
40 UNDER 40: CRAFT FUTURES |
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HAVOC was created in the middle of an ice storm in Pembroke, North Carolina. Using the drawing side of the cut paper pieces, its title reflects the weather outside, the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and many others, and the chaos of our current political and environmental moment.
PUSHING
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PENUMBRA seemingly emerges through the wall of Plaatsmaken, and eddies around the gallery space. Reflecting the dim light of the Northern European skies, it cuts through the cloudcover to reveal the occasional beam of light.
MIA
PEARLMAN / KINKE KOOI |
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INRUSH utilizes the natural light entering through the window cut on the west side of the building to blur distinctions between interior and exterior space. SLASH:
PAPER UNDER THE KNIFE
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SUBITO landed in Caren Golden's booth at the Pulse Art Fair, only to blow away four days later. PULSE
NY 2010 Chosen as a Pulse 2010 Work on Paper Highlight!
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Mia Pearlman: MAELSTROM My solo show at the MMFA contained MAELSTROM, several Breath Paintings and a new site specific cut paper installation entitled TURBULENCE.
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VOLUTA is a limited edition laser cut sculpture made of translucent high impact polystyrene. Fun and easy to construct, it offers art lovers of all ages the opportunity to create and own a complex, luminous “paper” sculpture. In minutes you can transform a two dimensional piece of paper into a swirling three dimensional vortex. VOLUTA is meant to hang in a window or near a light source, but can also sit on a pedestal or horizontal surface. Several feet of monofilament is included for hanging. Each VOLUTA is invidually signed and numbered by the artist. Enjoy! |
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PAPERSTORMS is a site-specific installation at two stores, Septieme Etage and Au Dela du Septieme Etage in Geneva. |
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INFLUX draws people into Roebling Hall from the street, transforming the gallery into a swirling wind tunnel. ALL
CUT UP |
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UPDRAFT is a site specific installation in three parts: in the "glow room" windows on the front of the building (at left), on the vestibule glass walls, and in the North gallery. PAPER
CITY Read the review in New
York Art Beat |
 GYRE, 2008 7' H x 11' W x 13' D Paper, India ink, tacks, paper clips Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY |
GYRE appears to emerge from the ceiling of the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, coiling out of itself. From every angle, the unseen is unpredictable: what's on the other side is not what one expects. SITE
SPECIFICS '08 Read the article in the Islip Bulletin
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EYE, 2008 |
EYE is a cloud vortex swirling around the sky itself. Seemingly suspended between the visible world inside the gallery and an invisible world beyond the physical space, it appears to exist in a dimension that transcends interior and exterior. MIA
PEARLMAN + GARETH BELL-JONES Read the review in Interface |
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MAELSTROM is a giant multilevel mobile, 12 feet in diameter and 11 feet high, with 6 independently rotating (360°) layers of cut paper. An upside-down whirlpool, it echoes both the East River currents and the cloud formations visible through the windows. MAELSTROM utilizes the actual internal weather system of Smack Mellon to generate its movement, air currents produced by the rotation of four ceiling fans and hot air blown by the heating system. On a deeper level, this work evokes the inevitable reminder of the nearby
skyline: 9/11. Unknown forces, much bigger than us, beyond our control. SITE
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EDDY is a conceptual drawing on many levels: in the initial stage the shapes are drawn in India ink. Then I cut out selected areas to create a new drawing, made of positive and negative space, on the reverse. Once they are pinned into a sculptural form, these forms create a drawing in space. And finally, their shadows produce a wholly new drawing on and around the three dimensional drawing.
I WONDER IF YOU KNOW WHAT
IT MEANS |
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DRAWING
THE LINE Read
the review in the Boston Globe |
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