Denise Marika


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)