Fiona Connor

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Fiona Connor

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In her conceptually enriched and materially astute practice, Fiona Connor has evolved a sculptural language that unsettles objects and environments by reproducing them. Her work has continually invested in sculpture as a site where the formal, social, psychological and discursive properties of objects can be newly animated and observed. To date, the subjects of her mimesis have included: gallery facades; museum seating; municipal water fountains; real estate signage; leisure furniture; community noticeboards; windows of a house once inhabited by a Californian minimalist painter; windows in the homes of museum attendants who would invigilate the exhibition in which the works were installed; tools used to install an exhibition; doors of clubs that have closed indefinitely, among others. Through this process of reproduction – which itself assumes many different approaches – the artist shakes off the familiarity that subdues how we process many of the civic objects and built environments that we’re endlessly encountering and reveals new contact points.

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Drawing something under itself
2023
Installation view
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf
Untitled (5 masonry exercises completed by Helmut Luister and Meik Systermann apprentices from Berufsförderungswerk der Bauindustrie NRW GmbH, Ausbildungszentrum Oberhausen)
2023
Detail
Drawing something under itself
2023
Installation view
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf
Drawing something under itself
2023
Detail
Untitled (shoes)
2020
Bronze
Dimensions variable
Drawing something under itself
2023
Installation view
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf
Untitled (complete set of plinths from the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf storage)
2023
Detail
Lively Visitor Book
2023
Dimensions variable
Custom typeface stamps and stamp pads, A1 paper, drying rack, tables, glass
Lively Visitor Book
2023
Detail
Continuous Sidewalk
2023
Installation view
621 Ruberta Ave, Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Continuous Sidewalk
2021–23
Poured and formed concrete, cast resin and metal inserts, brick, asphalt, paint, silicon, wax, sand and dirt, silkscreen on aluminium, existing space
Installation view
621 Ruberta Ave, Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Continuous Sidewalk
2021-2023
Detail
Continuous Sidewalk
2023
Installation View
621 Ruberta Ave, Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Continuous Sidewalk
2021-23
Detail
Ecstatic
2023
Installation view
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Closed Down Clubs, Oil Can Harry’s
2022
Steel doors, hardware, folding gate, laminated silk screen on coated
aluminum foil, tape, surface coatings
73 × 80 × 6 in. (185.4 × 203.2 × 15.2 cm)
Long Distance
2022
Installation view
Maureen Paley, London
Untitled #45 (Scorpio Bar, 4401 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019)
2021
Cast resin, paint
29.4 x 48.4 x 1.1 in / 74.5 x 123 x 3 cm
Community Notice Board (Real Estate)
2022
Enclosed cork board, silkscreen and UV print on aluminium, pins, tape, staples, vinyl, surface treatments
36 x 30 x 2.6 in / 91.5 x 76.3 x 6.5 cm
Untitled (shoes)
2020
Bronze
Each: 4.5 x 11 x 4.75 in / 11.5 x 28 x 12 cm
overall: 4.75 x 16.5 x 11.75 in / 12 x 42 x 30 cm
Long Distance
2022
Installation view
Maureen Paley, London
Untitled (folding chair)
2020
bronze
35.4 x 17.4 x 4.4 in / 90 x 44 x 11 cm
Untitled #53, (24700 McBean Pkwy, Valencia, CA 91355)
2022
Cast resin, paint
24 x 24 x .75 in / 61 x 61 x 1.8 cm
Behind the Door
2022
Installation View
Fine Arts, Sydney
Behind the Door
2022
Installation View
Fine Arts, Sydney
Untitled (From Public Restrooms)
2021
Detail
My muse is my memory, an archive of Closed Down Clubs
2022
Installation view
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Closed Down Clubs, Hop Louie
2020
Commercial aluminum-frame door, polycarbonate, steel grill, hardware, silk screen on coated aluminum foil, vinyl, tape, cast aluminum, surface coatings
84 x 60 x 7 in / 213.4 x 152.4 x 17.8 cm
Closed Down Clubs, Hop Louie
2020
Detail
My muse is my memory, an archive of Closed Down Clubs
2022
Installation view
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Closed Down Clubs, Club Tee Gee
2018
Wooden door, silk screen on coated aluminum, surface coatings
84 x 36 x 1.75 in / 213.4 x 91.4 x 4.4 cm
Closed Down Clubs, Club Tee Gee
2018
Detail
Light enough to read by
2021
Installation view
Untitled (mailbox)
2021
Detail
Out of Place
2021
Installation view
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
Installation view
Publishing Services – GSD, Downtown Los Angeles, #2, October 2020
2020
Ink on paper
22.8 x 28.9 in / 58 x 73.5cm (paper), 27.4 x 34.1 in / 69.5 x 86.5 cm (framed)
#8, Closed for Installation, Sequence of Events
2019
Detail
Secession, Vienna
Closed for installation
2019
Bronze
Dimensions variable
SculptureCenter, New York
Installation view
Closed for installation
2019
Bronze
Dimensions variable
SculptureCenter, New York
Installation view
Closed for installation
2019
Detail
Closed for installation
2019
Bronze
Dimensions variable
SculptureCenter, New York
Installation view
Closed for installation
2019
Detail
Closed for installation
2019
Detail
Untitled #14 (4025 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90004)
2018
Cast resin, blue acrylic paint
96 x 150 x 0.75 in / 243.8 x 381 x 1.9 cm
Untitled #14 (4025 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90004)
2018
Detail
Closed Down Clubs
2018
Installation view
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Closed Down Clubs
2018
Installation view
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Closed Down Clubs, Circus of Books
2018
Commercial aluminum-frame glass doors, silk screen on coated aluminum foil, vinyl, surface coatings
41.75 x 83.5 x 2 in / 106.1 x 212.1 x 5.1 cm
Detail
Closed Down Clubs & Monochromes
2018
Installation view
Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington
Closed Down Clubs, Club DC
2017
Detail
Closed Down Clubs, Club DC
2017
Detail
Closed Down Clubs, French Bistro
2017
Detail
Closed Down Clubs & Monochromes
2018
Installation view
Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington
Untitled #5
2016
Cast resin, green paint
81.9 x 44 x 1 in / 208 x 112.0 x 2.5 cm
Untitled #5
2016
Detail
Untitled #6
2017
Cast resin, black paint
66.9 x 46.9 x 3 in / 170 x 119 x 7.6 cm
Untitled #6
2017
Detail
Community Notice Board and Monochromes
2018
Installation view
Modern Art, London
Community Notice Board and Monochromes
2018
Installation view
Modern Art, London
Untitled #7
2017
Cast resin, cream paint
27 x 92 x 0.9 in / 685 x 233.5 x 2.2 cm
Community Notice Board (Joshua Tree Laundry)
2017
Custom bulletin board, silkscreen and UV print on aluminum, vinyl, pins, tape, staples
44 x 36 in / 111.8 x 91.4 cm
Community Notice Board (Laurel)
2015
Materials custom bulletin board, paint, silkscreen and UV print on aluminum plates and vinyl, pins, staples
41 x 53 in / 104.1 x 134.6
Community Notice Board and Monochromes
2018
Installation view
Modern Art, London
Ma #1 (Bedroom window of John McLaughlin at his home in Dana Point)
2016
Acrylic on timber, glass, mesh screen, fixtures
64 x 80 x 6 in / 162.6 x 203.2 x 15.2 cm
Ma #2 (Bedroom window of John McLaughlin at his home in Dana Point)
2016
Acrylic on timber, glass, vinyl sliding window, silkscreen on aluminum
37 x 62 x 6 in / 94 x 157.5 x 15.2 cm
On What Remains (fountain)
2015
Concrete, EPS foam, antique brass hardware, plumbing supplies, steel, ply, paint and coatings, car battery, Jabsco pump, potable water
36 x 24 x 36 in / 91.4 x 61 x 91.4 cm
Wallworks
2014
Installation view
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Wallworks (featuring a reproduction of The winged stags (Les Cerfs Ailes), mid- fifteenth century tapestry)
2014
Detail
Wallworks
2014
Installation view
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Wallworks (featuring Marianne Baillieu Where are you? 1990 and Alleluia 1990)
2014
Installation view
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Wallworks
2014
Installation view
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Wallworks
2014
Detail
Wallworks (featuring detail of Bertram Mackennal, Portrait of Janet Achurch c.1890)
2014
Installation view
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Wallworks
2014
Installation view
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Installation in Made in L.A
2012
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Something Transparent (please go round the back)
2009
Glass, timber, metal and plastic fittings, acrylic, vinyl transfer
Dimensions variable
Installation view
Michael Lett, Auckland
Something Transparent (please go round the back)
2009
Installation view
Michael Lett, Auckland
Something Transparent (please go round the back)
2009
Glass, timber, metal and plastic fittings, acrylic, vinyl transfer
Dimensions variable
Installation view
Michael Lett, Auckland