Susie MacMurray is one of 30 international artists showcasing new site-specific installations and recent work in the latest exhibition titled Dead or Alive at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
Artists transformed organic materials and objects that were once produced by or part of living organisms-insects, feathers, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and hair-to create intricately crafted and designed installations and sculptures.
The exhibition explores a territory related to MAD's Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, which featured contemporary works created from multiples of ordinary manufactured items. In Dead or Alive, the materials transformed by the artists are entirely natural. Once-living parts of flora and fauna are recombined and rearranged into works of art that address the transience of life, and all that is elegant and alarming about the natural world.
A special weeklong visitor preview started on Thursday, April 22. This will allow MAD visitors to observe artists as they create and install site- specific works in the museum galleries.
The exhibition is open until 24th October 2010