VA LECTURE-Audra Wolowiec 12/1/2020!!!

Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York whose work oscillates between sculpture, installation, text and performance with an emphasis on sound and the material qualities of language. Her sound installations and experimental language scores use the gap, space, or breath in between speech, to amplify an undercurrent of language. These scores, or language-based artworks, draw on the traditions of musical notation and experimental writing techniques, to provide conceptual and poetic frameworks for the installations. Wolowiec's work has been shown internationally and in the United States at MASS MoCA, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Stony Brook University, Art in General, and Studio 10. Readings and events have taken place at The Poetry Project, Microscope Gallery, and Center for Performance Research. Her work has been featured in BOMB Magazine, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, CAA Journal, and Sound American. Residencies include Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Complex Systems Art and Physics Residency at the University of Oregon supported by a National Science Foundation Grant, and Dieu Donné. 

Wolowiec received a BFA from the University of Michigan and MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island school ofDesign. She has held teaching positions at Parsons School of Design, SUNY Purchase, Pratt Institute, andDia:Beacon. She is the founder and director of the publishing platform Gravel Projects.