CHOOSE ARTIST
Robert Breer, Paul Chan, Martha Colburn, Thomas Demand, Edison Manufacturing Company, Fleischer Studios, Brent Green, George Griffin, Ezra Johnson, Bill T. Jones and OpenEnded Group, William Kentridge, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Laleh Khorramian, Maria Lassnig, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Joshua Mosley, Oscar Muñoz, Jacco Olivier, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Pruitt, Christine Rebet, Mary Reid Kelley, Lotte Reiniger, Robin Rhode, Hiraki Sawa, Berni Searle, Cindy Sherman, Federico Solmi, Dziga Vertov, Kara Walker
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- Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
- Traffic #1: Our Second Date, 2004
- Tabletop installation with plastic figures, plastic and metal model vehicles, LCD monitor, electronics, lights, video cameras, and video projection; sound
Tabletop dimensions: 37 x 50 x 40 inches, video projection dimensions variable
Collection of Bill Paxton, Ojai, CA
ABOUT THIS WORK
Traffic #1: Our Second Date emphasizes the ways in which cultural phenomena become integrated into and shaped by personal histories. This work re-imagines the traffic-jam scene from the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film Week-End, which the couple saw together in Paris. A meticulously constructed miniature diorama occupies a rotating tabletop. As it turns, cameras project the changing scenes from Godard’s movie onto the gallery wall, and the piece as a whole merges the sculptural with the cinematic.
ABOUT JENNIFER AND KEVIN MCCOY
Born in Sacramento, California in 1968, Jennifer McCoy received a BA in Theater Arts with a concentration in Film Studies from Cornell University in 1990. Born in Seattle, Washington in 1967, Kevin McCoy earned a BA in Philosophy from Whitman College in 1989. Both artists received an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1994. Since they initiated their artistic partnership in 1990, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have produced multimedia works combining film, animation, and kinetic sculpture that examine the relationship between technology and the construction of narratives. Their projects have been exhibited internationally in venues including The Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; The New Museum; and the Center for Media and Art (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany. The McCoys live and work in New York.