Tina La Porta Explained

Tina La Porta
Birth Date:1967
Birth Place:Chicago, IL
Education:Columbia College, Chicago and School of Visual Arts, NY
Movement:internet art, feminist art, new media art, digital art
Known For:Voyeur_Web, Re:mote_corp@REALities, Side Effects, Medicine Ball
Website:http://www.tinalaporta.net/

Tina La Porta is a Miami-based digital artist who "focuses on issues surrounding identity in the virtual space".[1] She was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1967.[2] Her early work could be characterized as net:art or internet art. In 2001 she collaborated with Sharon Lehner on My Womb the Mosh Pit, an artistic representation of Peggy Phelan's Unmarked.[3] La Porta is known for political and feminist art that explores gender, bodies and media such as the 2003 installation Total Screen which consists of enlarged Polaroid photographs of veiled men and women in TV news coverage after the events of 9/11.[4] Later work explores mental illness and pharmaceuticals. In 2012 she presented Medicine Ball at the Robert Fontaine Gallery as part of the "Warhol is Over?" exhibition;[5] this followed a 2011 presentation of All the Pills in My House, also at Fontaine's gallery.[6] In 2015 she participated in the 40-person Annual Interest exhibition at the Young at Art Museum.[7]

Early life and education

Porta was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1967. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts in New York, NY in 1994.[8]

Work

net.works + avatars, 1997[9]

Distance, 1999[10]

Re:mote_corp@REALities, 2001[11]

Voyeur_Web, 2001

My Womb the Mosh Pit (with Sharon Lehner), 2001

Total Screen, 2003

All the Pills in My House, 2011

Medicine Ball, 2012

Side Effects, 2018[12]

Solo exhibitions

Voyeur_Web, 2001[13]

Total Screen, 2003

Side Effects, 2018

Notes and References

  1. Book: Intermedia. 9783833415418. Hans Breder, Klaus-Peter Busse. Dortmunder Schriften zur Kunst / Intermedia-Studien. 2005. 1. 44.
  2. Web site: Tina La Porta Biography. www.tinalaporta.net. 2020-03-30.
  3. Book: Flanagan, Mary. Austin Booth. Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture. MIT Press. 2002. 542. 0262561506.
  4. Rothenberg. Julia. 2012. Art after 9/11: Critical Moments in Lean Times. Cultural Sociology. en. 6. 2. 177–200. 10.1177/1749975511404851. 145592849 . 1749-9755.
  5. Web site: Valys . Phillip . 13 July 2012 . They're not Andy Warhol . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214755/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-13/entertainment/fl-sh-art-071312-20120713_1_andy-warhol-paul-warhola-miami-beach-artist . 3 March 2016 . 8 March 2015 . Sun Sentinel.
  6. Web site: Suarez de Jesus . Carlos . 17 November 2011 . Sex, Drugs, Profanity and More at Wynwood's Robert Fontaine Gallery . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220626205006/https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/sex-drugs-profanity-and-more-at-wynwoods-robert-fontaine-gallery-6501771 . 26 June 2022 . 8 March 2015 . Miami New Times.
  7. Web site: Valys . Phillip . 27 January 2015 . At Young at Art, rooms of one's own . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150418174520/http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-sri-prabha-davie-young-art-museum-20150127-story.html . 18 April 2015 . 8 March 2015 . SouthFlorida.com . Sun Sentinel.
  8. Web site: Tina La Porta. Saatchi Art. en-US. 2020-03-30.
  9. Web site: Tina LaPorta: net.works + avatars . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230527183552/http://heelstone.com/meridian/templates/laporta/ . 27 May 2023 . 30 March 2020 . heelstone.com.
  10. Web site: Tina LaPorta: Distance. turbulence.org. 2020-03-30.
  11. Web site: telematic connections :: datasphere. telematic.walkerart.org. 2020-03-30.
  12. Web site: Tina La Porta 'Side Effects' Opening Saturday September 29 6-10pm presented by Fat Village Arts District. ArtsCalendar.com. en-US. 2020-03-30.
  13. Web site: Tina LaPorta: Voyeur Web. whitney.org. en. 2020-03-30.

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