LO: A Focus on Women Practitioners

As a fellow female, I love how this week’s LO is focused on women. While I was looking through the list, Camille Utterback caught my eye because she creates interactive artworks and installations. Utterback has a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently an Assistant Professor of the Art and Art History Department at Stanford University. This one project by Utterback, Flourish, particularly got my attention. It is a 70-foot long site-specific artwork commissioned by the Liberty Mutual Group. Flourish combines interactive installation through the projection onto multiple layers of glass. It consists of seven, double-layered five by eight-foot glass panels. It has three interactive panels in which it reacts to a viewer’s position in front of the glass. Flourish represents how fluidity can flow through a linear composition and its references to life, creativity, and growth. Working with different glass techniques, the glass reflects and interacts with one another to create a special experience that can only be experienced in-person. The colors are so bright and playful and the shapes have such fluidity.

Camille Utterback: http://camilleutterback.com/

Flourish (2013): http://camilleutterback.com/projects/flourish/