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24/6/2008

2008 Altoids Award

New Museum, New York

The New Museum and Altoids, the Curiously Strong Mints®, present an exhibition of the winners of the The Altoids® Award: Ei Arakawa of New York City; Michael Patterson-Carver of Portland, Oregon; Lauren Kelley of Houston, Texas; and Michael Stickrod of New Haven, Connecticut.

The artists were selected among forty-six nominees by a jury composed of artists Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

A truly unique exploration of American emerging art, the prize is awarded biennially by the New Museum to four artists nominated and selected by a panel comprised entirely of other artists. Award recipients in 2008 are each given a $25,000 cash prize—totaling $100,000—as well as a joint exhibition organized by Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions at the New Museum, offering these artists their earliest exposure to a broad, international museum audience. The exhibition opens June 25, 2008.

Ei Arakawa
Ei Arakawa works with numerous participants, combining dance, improvised actions, and objects to create a new genre of performance. The product of Arakawa’s process is not quite an artwork and not quite a sculpture, but is constantly shifting between the two. Arakawa was born in Iwaka, Japan, in 1977, and currently lives and works in New York City.

Lauren Kelley
Lauren Kelley uses stop-motion animation to explore stereotypes of femininity and race. By using her voice to speak for a cast of black dolls, Kelley breathes life into plastic characters while poignantly and humorously addressing issues such as gender, womanhood, and the human condition. Whether telling stories of unplanned pregnancy or exploring the world of flight attendants, Kelley’s work introduces its viewers to a world in which dolls and puppets are caught in endless streams of consciousness and are trapped in a bizarre theater of the absurd. Kelley was born in 1972 in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives and works in Houston, Texas.

Michael Patterson-Carver
After his exposure to civil rights protesting as a child, Michael Patterson-Carver has been committed to create works that engage in a personal form of political activism. Slightly naïve, always strangely obsessive, Patterson-Carver’s color drawings of picketing and political protests paint a small history of dissent that is simultaneously comical, ironic, and profoundly human. Most recently the artist has started a series of drawings that read like allegories of destruction or chronicles of complex conspiracy theories often starring George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1958, Patterson-Carver lives and works in Portland, Oregon, where he first started presenting his works on the streets.

Michael Stickrod
Inspired by the Free Cinema movement, Michael Stickrod creates films that compose an ever-expanding family album. Stickrod layers footage of his relatives with homemade soundtracks, found audio, and photographed and scanned objects to make videos that paint an unsettling portrait of middle America. At times candid and sincere, other times manipulative and voyeuristic, Stickrod’s films are suspended somewhere between confessional home videos and anthropological field research. Stickrod was born in 1978 in Columbus, Ohio, and currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut.

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