EXHIBITIONS
Magdalene Carmen introduced her arresting, Limited Edition flag-collage series 'Addict' in a teaser, pop-arty film screening at The Body Language 2022 in Venice, Italy and the London Contemporary Art Fair. The 'Addict' series once completed will comprise 12-32 works and is at once (1) advertising and pop culture commentary (2) articulation of the universal corporeal-spiritual, conscious-unconscious tug of war defining the human condition (3) intimation of female power in literal form and metaphor (4) however else it speaks to you.
__ Premier NFTArt platform Makersplace.com, in support of its top 100 new female artists in 2023, acquired for its private collection Carmen's first NFTArt piece from the 'Addict' series. __ The artist's iconic app-looking tandem HELLO + HEY works (fusing distinct road signs and smart-phone aesthetics, reported as "particularly cheeky intervention" in Artshub) were among just 12 works from six Australian contemporary artists to win a place in the country's inaugural billboard art show (Dec 2020), playfully ... |
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running between commercial advertising on the central and prominent, tandem billboards across Melbourne's Flinders Street Station (Elizabeth Street corner), ''demonstrating the dynamic relationship between contemporary art and urban street culture". In 2021 the show was adapted for the Big Screen at Federation Square (Her own indie project(s) for the Fed Square space is one of the artist's targets). __ First works from her Limited Edition 'Urban Mesh' series of Melbourne portraits from its train windows were exhibited in a first solo exhibition in mid-2018 after receiving affirmative, positive feedback from the City of Melbourne's Art Grants panel (if not funding, which went to gaming productions). This 'Urban Swing' exhibition juxtaposed a row of slim-line, contemporary timber-framed 'Urban Mesh' giclee fine art prints (approximating the train-window experience) with the sassy content of Magdalene Carmen's amber-bright, high-gloss, round-edged metal prints properly mimicking road signs, from her open-edition 'Sign-Offs' series that is unlimitedly ongoing. __ Leading-edge photography online magazine-network lensculture.com awarded Magdalene Carmen her own portfolio gallery in 2015 in recognition of work from her 'Urban Mesh' series she was then just developing as a photography student inclined on producing work with fine art x street photography aesthetics. A significant living influence, Koci Hernandez, had at the same time encouraged (via email review of her work examples) the artist's urban focus: ""images in your urban series are absolutely stunning" | "very evocative" | "absolutely love your direction". ___ |