LOCURTO / OUTCAULT: THINSKINNED Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault have worked collaboratively since 1991 and their artistic concerns have been the inherent frailness and vulnerability of the human body. They began working with photographic images in 1999 while involved in a project called selfportrait.map that created maps of their three-dimensionally scanned bodies. Using both the photographic information and the Cartesian coordinates from the scans, the artists were able to enter the figures as databases into a cartographer's software and projected the volumes of the figures as two-dimensional maps. The images from this series of work were printed as large-scale photographs with funding from the List Visual Arts Center at MIT where they were first shown in 2000. Since then the artists have continued working with the three-dimensional scanner as a camera developing different software programs that allow them to deconstruct the 3d body and to produce animations by manipulating the figures and their relationship to the cameras. A recent body of work titled Thinskinned is a series of unique prints derived from these animations. The images are derived from scenes of explosions within the animation taken from multiple vantage points and creating complex abstractions of flesh colored ribbons. This show includes a selection of photographs from selfportrait.map, prints from Thinskinned and a DVD animation from which a number of the prints were derived that is suitable for a wall projection. For availability and cost please contact PAMELA AUCHINCLOSS / Arts Management. ARTIST LINK members.verizon.net/~vze3s5q6 back to top