ELIZABETH KING: "THE SIZES OF THINGS IN THE MIND'S EYE"
David Winton Bell Gallery
List Art Center
Brown University
64 College Street
Providence, Rhode Island
November 1 through December 21, 2008
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By Meredith Cutler (for Artscope Magazine)
Article Excerpt:
Light moves gently over Elizabeth King’s self-portrait automaton in “Eidolon,” a larger than life video projection on the darkened gallery wall. Possessing the careworn wrinkles of time, her individual eyebrow hairs gone awry, the closecropped subject gazes off-screen with an air of vague concern. Slowly, she turns her liquid stare towards the viewer. The moment of eye contact is anticipated, that flashpoint where human recognition occurs through the “windows of the soul”...but something is not quite right.
As the light shifts to illuminate the subject’s eyes, wide and misleadingly
lifelike, the pupils remained fixed - frozen apertures within unseeing glass orbs. In that moment, the viewer is reminded that this implied human presence is merely an image of a carefully manipulated puppet, created with light projected onto a wall.
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Image: Elizabeth King, "Animation Study: Pose 7", 1997-2005, Chromogenic prints on Kodak Endura paper, 20 x 20 in. Collection of the artist.
