Carlin Wing, Pigmented ink print surface mounted to acrylic and back mounted to Dibond. 70 x 57 inches.

Wing pulls social history and poetry out of ceilings, courts and carpet patterns. Her work claims elevators and parking lots as places of play and generally attends to spaces in need of reshaping. She recently completed a set of three collaborative exhibitions that manipulated the cultural and geographic resonances of wallpaper and wildflower seeds to animate the local history of Andrew Jackson and to initiate a discussion of its relevance to current issues of race and class. Pas de Quatre, a video from the project, is on view at The Hermitage, President Jackson’s estate. Wing is currently preparing to bounce squash balls off of Olympic architecture as part of the Open Art Performance Festival in Beijing in the fall of 2009. She has taught at Vanderbilt University and Watkins College of Art and Design. She received an MFA in Photography and Media from California Institute of the Arts in 2008 and an A.B. in VES and Social Anthropology from Harvard in 2002. Her work has been exhibited at Museé de L’Elysee in Switzerland, Aperture Gallery in New York and Angels Gate Cultural Center in Los Angeles among others. Wing is currently represented by Anthony Greaney in Boston.

Artist Talk: Thursday, November 5, CCVA Room B04, 6 pm