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TILLAMOOK
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April 2002 Tillie worked with 25 humans in an
incredible feat of interspecial collaboration: the
COLLAROBATIONS exhibition, presented at The
National Arts Club. Last year the artist reached another milestone,
the first inclusion of her work in a museum
exhibition—PETROPOLIS at the New-York
Historical Society
On the tail of her successful ART BRUT exhibition at Williamsburg's
Green Gallery in February 2004, Tillie recently made her European
debut in Belgium. In April 2004 HOW ARE CONNECTED THE DISPLACEMENT
AND THE MACHINES OF PURITY, a two-artist show featuring Tillamook
Cheddar and Estonian artist Ki Wa, shook the foundations of Jan Hoet
Junior's Gallery Beaulieu in Wortegem/Petegem. In May 2004, Tillie
returned to Europe for a special exhibition, W139 Presents: Tillamook
Cheddar, Master in Canine Arts, at Kunstvlaai 5 in Amsterdam.TILLIE
LTD., the first all-Tillie store, is now open in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
presented in association with Green Gallery, Summer 2004.The artist’s
primary process is a dynamic color transfer technique. In
preparation for each of Tillie's works, her assistants assemble a
touch-sensitive recording device by affixing pigment-coated vellum
to a sheet of lithograph paper backed by mat board. The artist takes
the prepared “canvas” in her mouth and brings it to her
workspace. Working on the outside surface, she uses her teeth and
claws to create a flurry of marks. These sharp and sweeping intersecting
lines are complemented by the artist’s delicate paw prints
and subtle tongue impressions, resulting in an abstract image which
is revealed on the paper beneath when she is finished. She works with
shocking intensity, sometimes to the point of destroying her creations.For
the Art Box Project, a selection of Tillie’s recent works on
paper has been scanned at 300dpi, and reproduced upon the object.
“New York's Hottest New Artist”
—The Art Newspaper (London)“A masterpiece of conceptualism.”
—Time Out New York“A sham.”
—Jerry Saltz, Village Voice“When possessed by an artistic
vision, Tillie is fearless.”
—AKC Gazette“[Because of tillie] I have had to rethink
two of my most basic assumptions
about art and life: first, the notion that animals cannot have an
aesthetic sense;
second, the core conviction that no sentient being could possibly
paint anything
worse than what Julian Schnabel recently showed at the Gagosian Gallery.”
—James Gardner, New York Post (May, 2002)Visit Tillie's website:
www.tillamookcheddar.com
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