Boston-based sculptor Denise Marika is well known for her site specific
video projections and multi-media installations. Marika’s main subject
and artistic tool is her own body. She has dealt with issues of power,
control and vulnerability in a number of works shown at venues such as
the Gardner Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Combining full body
scans and the Z Corp 3D printer output, she has created in-terra,(1999),
an installation consisting of three plexiglass tubes placed on a raised
rubber mat onthe floor. Inside each, a 12 inch female nude crouches,
buried in the limestone. As the tubes are rolled on the rubber,
the figure becomes increasingly revealed or covered by the limestone "terra".
As in earlier works, Marika here puts her naked subject in sculptural confinement.
She conjures up ancient images of the victims of Pompeii found preserved
in the lava in this, her first application of rapid prototyping into her
art. (M>M)