Sunday, August 2, 2009

I don't know how many of you have seen the work of Claire Morgan, but her art is an incredible and ambitious feat. She is an installation artist who specializes in what I believe is fishing wire, rigging planes and cubes from bones, rotten meat, strawberries and gnats. Often times she exhibits taxidermy animals which makes me want to draw a comparison with Cai Guo Qiang's 99 wolves crashing into a plexi-glass wall titled, "Head On"; but this relation seems all too literal and are outweighed by conceptual differences. Where Qiang's installations are more humorous and social, Claire Morgan's are far more contemplative, like fleeting figments of mortality. Based in London.