Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Born in Sacramento, California in 1968, Jennifer McCoy received a BA in Theater Arts with a concentration in Film Studies from Cornell University in 1990. Born in Seattle, Washington in 1967, Kevin McCoy earned a BA in Philosophy from Whitman College in 1989. Both artists received an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1994. Since they initiated their artistic partnership in 1990, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have produced multimedia works combining film, animation, and kinetic sculpture that examine the relationship between technology and the construction of narratives.
Their projects have been exhibited internationally in venues including The Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; The New Museum; and the Center for Media and Art (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The Dissolve
A paradigm shift in contemporary art is rare and hard to recognize at its inception, but that is what curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco did in The Dissolve, SITE SANTA FE’s Eighth International Biennial. The curators presented a new sensibility in the art of our time, a mingling of up-to-the-minute technology and traditional visual arts (painting, drawing, and sculpture) with dance, music, and film. The fundamental form of this new work was animation, uniting the technological (the camera) with the handmade (drawing).
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Disparities and Deformations
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque brought together a diverse group of contemporary artworks that respond and give new substance to the sense of emotional and logical uncertainty inherent in the grotesque, described by the 19th-century writer Jean Paul as a state of “soul dizziness.” The exhibition tracked the incongruous combination of disparate forms and ideas in the work of internationally renowned artists of different generations, coming from various cultural contexts, and working with different processes and ideas.
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