{"id":1845,"date":"2013-04-04T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diap-mfa.us\/diap\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2019-12-11T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:52:21","slug":"04-04-13-penelope-umbrico-artist-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"04\/04\/13 – Penelope Umbrico, Artist Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Penelope Umbrico will be speaking Thursday 04\/04\/13 at 5:00PM in Shepard Hall 408. Please come and let your students know about this talk. More information about her and her work can be found on her website http:\/\/www.penelopeumbrico<\/b>.net\/<\/a><\/div>\n
As Is<\/i>\u00a0featured a series of work called “Broken Sets (EBay<\/a>)” (2009\u20132010), which consisted of images of broken LCD television<\/a> screens that were acquiesced from pictures posted by eBay sellers trying to sell damaged television sets for parts.[1]<\/a><\/div>\n
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Her project “Suns from Flickr ” started in 2006 when she found 541,795 pictures of Sunsets<\/a> searching the word \u201csunset\u201d on the photo-sharing web site Flickr<\/a> while looking for the most photographed subject (which the sunset turned out to be). She took just the suns from these pictures and made Kodak<\/a> snapshot<\/a> prints of them.<\/p>\n

Umbrico has participated in numerous group exhibitions including those at MoMA PS1<\/a>, NY; MassMoCA<\/a>, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, CA; The Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; The Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, NY; Gallery of Modern Art<\/a>, Brisbane Australia; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts<\/a>, Cambridge; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College<\/a>, NY; International Center of Photography<\/a>, NY, among others. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, the International Center of Photography<\/a>, the Museum of Contemporary Photography<\/a>, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, the Tampa Museum of Art<\/a>, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her work has recently been featured in the New York Times Magazine<\/a>, on the cover and inside spreads accompanying “Ghosts In the Machine”, including “Cyberspace When You’re Dead”, on January 9, 2011.[2]<\/a> In March 2012, Art in America<\/a> featured Umbrico’s work on the cover and inside along with a short essay by the artist.<\/div>\n
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