Carol Bove
Carol Bove (American, b.1971) is a multimedia artist, working in installations of found and made objects that investigate social history and art. Frequently featuring books and publications from the 1960–70s, Bove describes herself as an anthropologist carefully categorizing intellectual works and popular culture that have had a lasting effect on contemporary life, such as The Feminine Mystique and Playboy magazine. The unexpected layering of these juxtapositions creates poetic and subtle new relationships between these familiar objects.
Bove was born in 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland, to her American parents, and was raised in California. She received her BS from New York University in 2000, and was already exhibiting her work in New York. She has since been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Kunsthalle Zu¨rich, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, among others. She has also participated in the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 and the Whitney Biennial in 2008. She is co-represented by David Zwirner and Maccarone galleries in New York.
~ bio from artnet.com
THE SEANCES AREN’T HELPING
READ: Bove’s artist statement addressing her exhibition in the statuary niches of The Met’s facade called, “The Seances Aren’t Helping.”
READINGS:
NYTimes article about Carol Bove’s Met facade pieces
WATCH: this interview with Bove about her Met facade pieces:
The Native American Exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A bronze plaque recognizing Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Indigenous Lenape, was installed in May on the Metropolitan Museum’s Fifth Avenue facade.
