"Object Oriented Programming"
January 13 - March 30, 2012
Artist Talk and Reception
Friday, January 13, 2012
Talk: 3:30-4:30 pm, George E. Pake Auditorium
Live stream www.justin.tv/parcinc
Reception: 4:30-6:00pm, Lobby
PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA94304
viewing hours:
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Born in 1979, Katie Herzog's artistic practice began in the 1980s when she photocopied comic strips that she had created about the meaninglessness of life and stapled to telephone poles in Palo Alto. As a teenager, she graduated to altering existing public sculpture and wheatpasting social commentary. Her first job was in the shipping department at Klutz Press, where packing hundreds of boxes full of books and rubber chickens has been described as a fundamental cornerstone of her intellectual trajectory.
Katie references historical anecdotes in which technological meaning and message converge, in C is for Cookie (PARC) (2011), What You See Is What You Get (2011), and Mr. Watson Come Here I Need You (2011). Expressionist paintings of figures experiencing information and its discontents include Information Overload Syndrome (2005), Information Entropy (2009), and A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis (Sigmund, Me, and Alexander) (2007). Psychedelic Illuminated Manuscript (2009), a fifteen foot long mixed media work on burlap, represents the intersection between information technology and the counter-cultural social landscape from which Silicon Valley emerged. Phone Books (2008), a six-foot long weaving on metal lath, depicts the phone book section at the Whittier Public Library, where Herzog has worked as Assistant Reference Librarian and Artist in Residence since 2007.
Katie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, a Master of Fine Arts at UC San Diego, and studied Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. She has participated in multiple artist-in-residence programs including Skowhegan, Bblackboxx, the Banff Centre, and Program Initiative for Art and Architecture Collaboration. She currently serves as Director of the Molesworth Institute, which has been dedicated to the proliferation and preservation of library humor and disjunctive librarianship since 1956.
This exhibition is supported by a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation.
C is for Cookie (PARC), 54" x 68", acrylic on wool blanket, 2011