ArtBabble: Allan McCollum

Allan McCollum: "Lost Objects" & "Natural Copies"

Art21 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:35:13 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #137: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, artist Allan McCollum discusses two projects utilizing dinosaur fossils—"Lost Objects" (begun 1991) and "Natural Copies (begun 1994)—and his interest in how both scientific and local communities define the historical value of objects.

Allan McCollum: "Over Ten Thousand Individual Works"

Art21 — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:26:00 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #129: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, Allan McCollum reveals the process and logic behind the project Over Ten Thousand Individual Works (begun in 1982). Cast in plaster, hand-painted, and displayed in vast quantities, each Individual Work is a unique combination of shapes adapted from commercially-produced objects.

Allan McCollum: "Surrogate Paintings" & "Plaster Surrogates"

Art21 — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:11:08 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #120: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, Allan McCollum discusses his Surrogate Paintings (begun in 1978) and Plaster Surrogates (begun in 1982). Wanting to “construct an emblem” for what an artist does and demystify what it means to be an artist, McCollum’s symbolic works reveal the social game of looking at, selling, and making art through theatrical installations of mass-produced objects.

Allan McCollum: "Shapes Ornaments"

Art21 — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:39:46 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #110: Horace & Noella Varnum in Sedgwick, Maine, describe their experiences working with artist Allan McCollum on the Shapes from Maine (2009) exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York.

Allan McCollum: "Shapes Copper Cookie Cutters"

Art21 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:54:46 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #089: Larry Little, co-founder of Aunt Holly's Copper Cookie Cutters with his wife Holly, describes his experiences working with artist Allan McCollum on the "Shapes from Maine" (2009) exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. Little describes the origins of his home business in Trescott, Maine, the process he developed for making cookie cutters by hand, and his working relationship with McCollum.

Allan McCollum: Season 5 Preview (2009)

Art21 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:14:41 +0000

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This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

Systems features four artists—John Baldessari, Kimsooja, Allan McCollum, and Julie Mehretu—who invent new grammars and logics, finding comfort in some systems while rebelling against others in today’s supercharged, information-based society.