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Helen Mirra 


EXHIBITIONS AT
GALERIE NORDENHAKE
Stockholm, May 2011
Stockholm, February 2008

Helen Mirra

Image No. 1 of Helen Mirra

Hourly directional field recordings, Monte Orlando, 6 May
oil on linen, 155 x 155 cm

Image No. 2 of Helen Mirra

Hourly directional field recordings, Gravagna, 11 May
Oil on linen, 155 x 155 cm

Image No. 3 of Helen Mirra

Field Index, Emilia Romagna
Installation view, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm

Image No. 4 of Helen Mirra

Field Index, Emilia Romagna
Ink on paper
42 index cards, each 10.3 x 14.7cm (detail)

Image No. 5 of Helen Mirra

Metamorphosed
2007
Cotton (shirts), serpentinite rock with hematite, casein-painted magnesite and chlorite
10 x 23 x 30cm

Image No. 6 of Helen Mirra

Terrapin
2007
Cotton (shirts), granite rock with casein paint, Rhizocarpon Geographicum Agg.,
Rhizocarpon Geminatum or A. Grande, & Aspicilia Sp. lichens
10 x 20 x 25cm

Image No. 7 of Helen Mirra

Mantle
2007
Cotton (cordoroy shirt), serpentinite rock with hematite, casein-painted magnesite, and Lilidea S. Lat or Buellia lichen
15 x 25 x 37cm

Image No. 8 of Helen Mirra

Map lichen, 2007
Cotton (skirt), breccia rock with casein paint, Rhizocarpon Geographicum Agg., Rhizocarpon Gemantium, or A. Grande & Aspicilia Sp. Lichens
12 x 24 x 41 cm

Image No. 9 of Helen Mirra

Summary
2007
Published journal and quartz schist with Porpida Flavocoerulescens lichen
2 x 33 x 24cm

Image No. 10 of Helen Mirra

Dryas octopetala & Dryas octopetala
Poa flexuosa & Trifolium pratense
(Erigeron uniflorus & Vaccinium myrtillus)
2007
29,5 x 48,5 x 4,2cm

Image No. 11 of Helen Mirra

Salix lapponum & Salix lapponum
(Downy willow & Downy willow)
Salix lapponum & Antennaria dioica
(Downy willow & Cat’s paw)
2007
29,5 x 48,5 x 4,2cm

Image No. 12 of Helen Mirra

Herbarium constituents, 1-16, installation view
2007
Pressed vascular plants
Each 29,5 x 48,5 x 4,2cm

Helen Mirra was born in 1970 in Rochester, New York. Mirra completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996, and has received awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialogue. She was also a guest of the DAAD Kunstlerprogramm in Berlin in 2005-2006. Her solo exhibitions have taken place at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Renaissance Society, Chicago, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, and the Dallas Art Museum, among others. Recent projects include the large-scale public project "Instance the Determination," which indexes works by John Dewey and Jane Addams, at the University of Chicago through 2009, and the book Cloud, the, 3, published by JRP Ringier/Christoph Keller Editions. She will be an artist-in-residence at IASPIS in Stockholm in 2009. Mirra is an Associate Professor at Harvard University, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.




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