ART MARKET BUDAPEST
JENNIFER WEST
17 - 20 OCTOBER 2024
Lundgren Gallery is pleased to announce our participation at Art Market Budapest, presenting video work Cat Over Moon by artist Jennifer West. ​
Jennifer West, Stills from Cat Over Moon, 2022/2024
4K (transferred from hand-painted 35mm film negative and print)
4 minutes, 20 seconds
Jennifer West presents Cat Over Moon (2022/24) in Budapest. As often in her work, she is interested in the history of cinema. Here, she links the special effects of the first fantastic films (eg by Georges Méliès) with the phenomenon of the spread of cat videos on the internet, interpreted by the artist as a form of “low art”. The video features different sequences of a cat passing in front of the full moon and landscape, the image being created in a painting technique that the artist has developed and perfected over several years, by laying color directly onto the analog film strip and keeping her gestures clearly visible.
Jennifer West, Preview of Cat Over Moon, 2022/2024
4K (transferred from hand-painted 35mm film negative and print)
4 minutes, 20 seconds
​Jennifer West (b. 1966 Topanga, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist who has explored materialism in film for twenty years. Her works in film, installation, sculpture, quilts, photo, performance, artist books and lectures are based in the archaeology of media, memory, place and recuperation. Significant commissions include works for LACMA; Frieze Los Angeles; LIAF Biennial, Norway; Seattle Art Museum; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; The High Line, New York, NY; MIT List Visual Arts Center; Aspen Art Museum; and Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London. West has had solo exhibitions and presentations at the Pompidou Center, Paris; Times Square Arts, New York; JOAN Los Angeles; Contemporary Art Museum St Louis; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; Seattle Art Museum; Museo d’Arte Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK; Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; White Columns, New York, NY. In 2022, a monograph, Jennifer West: Media Archaeology was published on her work by Radius Books, which was launched at the Pompidou in Paris, France; MOCA, Los Angeles and Site Santa Fe in 2023. She is a Professor of the Practice of Art at the USC Roski School of Art and Design and holds an MFA from the Art Center College of Design and a BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
Please email stefan@lundgrengallery.com for further information about the show and available works.