DEANNA SIRLIN

Deanna Sirlin's new media installations result from the operation of digital processes, but the ultimate subject of her work is one of the oldest artistic media: painting. Sirlin's installations are thus complex hybrids; by articulating the qualities of painting through the possibilities of digital production, they define a new medium and a new way of seeing.    ...click here for more details

Dance (2008)
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, GA

Permanent, site-specific art installation for the Mary Brown Science Center at Agnes Scott College. The College commissioned the work as a memorial to alumna Elizabeth R. Griffin. This four-story work for will honor the memory of a wonderful young woman who danced, and loved art and science, and lived with a passion. Dance was dedicated in a ceremony held on the Agnes Scott campus on April 18, 2008.

Up To My Eyeballs (2004)
Ty Stokes Gallery
Atlanta, GA

Up to My Eyeballs is a singularly appropriate title for Sirlin's newest series of works, produced by digitally sampling passages from one of her paintings and producing them as transparent C-prints adhered to Plexiglas circles.

Gestures (2004)
Ataturk Cultural Center
Antalya, Turkey

Gestures, shown at the Ataturk Cultural Center in Antalya, Turkey, is the first of Sirlin's exhibitions devoted exclusively to digital wall drawings.

Recent Works (2002)
Saltworks Gallery
Atlanta, GA

For the first time Sirlin created work for this exhibition that were digital works, hung three-dimensionally within the space.

Fountain Mix (2002)
Woodruff Park
Atlanta, GA

Installed in the fountain in Woodruff Park. Fountain Mix was a temporary art piece as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the Metropolitan Public Art Commission. Fountain Mix had a sound component, created for this work by Italian composer, Guiseppe Gavazza.

Punto di Fuga [Vanishing Point] (2001),
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy

The idea of a vanishing point presupposes a viewer and a particular relationship between the viewer and the work, issues which are central concerns to Sirlin in her new media installations.

33 and a 1/3 (2001),
New Orleans Museum of Art

"33 and a 1/3" is the number of times in a minute a vinyl long-playing record revolves on the turntable.

Flux I (2000),
The Georgia Museum of Art,
Athens, GA

Installed on large, floor-to-ceiling window on the landing of the museum's main staircase, Flux I redefined the central artery of movement within the building.

Retracings (1999),
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

The interior space of the High Museum, designed by architect Richard Meier, is defined by a ramp spiraling up from the first floor to the top of the building. Walking up or down this ramp, the viewer encountered different phases of Retracings on the building's several levels.