Marianne Vitale

Marianne Vitale (b. 1973/NY) is a New York-based contemporary artist who works with film, video, sculpture, drawing and performance. Her work has been presented internationally at such venues as White Columns (NY), Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm), Kling & Bang Gallery (Reykjavik), Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn), Deborah Colton Gallery (Houston), The Kitchen (NY) and Anthology Film Archives (NY). Her text and drawings were published in a monograph, "The Missing Book of Spurs", 2007, and her poetry in "Heights of the Marvelous" (ed. Todd Colby), St Martin's Press, 2000. She was the founder of Red Door collective (1995 - 2005). Vitale's work is represented by IBID Projects, London.

Excerpt from "The Missing Book of Spurs"

1. WRETCHED EXCESS - Intoxication of poor quality man-made lights and darks. Dark is toxic in tooth, so the man makes pockets all over his clothing with lights in them where he can keep all his teeth separately in light (he tried to keep his mouth open all the time but he was poor) he etches arcs or "arks" of intoxication over himself in stale social sets so he can think drunk and start the whirlpool which builds as people steal his personality. Everyone's teeth separate.

-from '"A Dozen Or So Stations of the Extrapolation Pan"'

External links

* [http://www.mariannevitale.com The Official Website of Marianne Vitale]
* [http://www.ibidprojects.com/ibid.php?id=2654 IBID PROJECTS artist's page]
* [http://www.frieze.com/review_single.asp?r=2621 Frieze Magazine review of That Brute Beasts Make Use of Reason]
* [http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-10-11/calendar/deborah-colton-gallery-chemical-city/ Houston Press - ..."best toxic art"...]