Alumna’s exhibit explores intersection of space and time through many disciplines
Lia Halloran was born in Chicago, IL, and grew up surfing and skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Pacifica, CA. Halloran received her bachelor's degree from the UCLA Department of Art, in 1999 and her MFA in Painting in Printmaking from Yale University in 2001. Halloran’s work often makes use of scientific concepts as a starting point and explores how perception, time and scale inform the human desire to understand the world and our emotional and psychological place within it.
"Artist Lia Halloran has skateboarded through runoff drains in pitch darkness, piloted a plane solo over Los Angeles and navigated dense theories of interstellar wormholes.
Alumna Lia Halloran experimented with spatial distortion through an audio-visual installation called "Lia Halloran: Double Horizon.” On display at the ArtCenter College of Design's Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery, the exhibit features a video presenting Los Angeles in order to create an immersive experience. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin) Her diverse studio practices simply follow her personal curiosities, which she said often land her in interdisciplinary spaces where she can warp and manipulate concepts of space and time.
The alumna most recently experimented with spatial distortion through an audio-visual installation called “Lia Halloran: Double Horizon,” on display at the ArtCenter College of Design’s Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery until March 15. Her eight-minute video, edited in collaboration with Garret Hill, presents the Los Angeles urban landscape through a disorienting lens, as Halloran said she mirrored aerial footage of the city into an immersive experience."— Nina Young, Feb. 10, 2020
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