Poverty is a Luxury that I Can't Afford_02 - 2009 - Archival Digital print on Arches HP 300lb - 13" x 20" - $400.00 [Fundraiser] Poverty is a Luxury that I Can't Afford_09 - 2009 - Archival Digital print on Arches HP 300lb - 13" x 20" - $400.00 [Fundraiser] Poverty is a Luxury I Can't Afford_10 - 2009 - Archival Digital print on Arches HP 300lb - 13" x 20" - $400.00 [Fundraiser]

Artist Bio
AMERICAN AND FRENCH ARTIST AND CURATOR, CATERINA VERDE, FOCUSES ON ISSUES OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION + CONSTRICTION WITHIN THE CULTURAL FRAMEWORK OF A MULTI-FLUOUS WORLD. VERDE'S WORK IS PERHAPS COMPARABLE TO A SEEMING “TOURBILLON” OF DISCONNECTED PARTS, REFERENCING HISTORICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERCEPTUAL CONTENT THAT MANIFEST AS DISARMINGLY SIMPLE AND ENIGMATICALLY MELANCHOLIC AND HUMOROUS WORKS.

VERDE WORKS IN A CROSS PLATFORM OF MEDIA THAT INCLUDES VIDEO INSTALLATION, DRAWING, PHOTOGRAPHY, EDITIONS AS WELL AS 3D OBJECTS. CATERINA VERDE CONTEXTUALIZES THE DIFFERENT MEDIA AS A MEANS OF CROSS POLLINATING IDEAS AND FORM THAT ULTIMATELY FUSE AND EXPLOIT THE EXHIBITION SPACE AS PART OF THE WHOLE.

VERDE EXHIBITS INTERNATIONALLY AND HER WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED AT THE KITCHEN, NYC; GALERIE PENNINGS, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS; GALERIE EOF, PARIS; CENTRAL FINE ART, NY; JOURNÉE PHOTOGRAPHIQUES DE BIENNE, SWITZERLAND; THREADWAXING SPACE, NYC AMONG MANY OTHERS. VERDE'S VIDEO WORK HAS BEEN PRESENTED IN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS AS WELL AS COMMISSIONED.

VERDE IS CURRENTLY CURATING AN INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE INITIATIVE, “STRANGE POSITIONING SYSTEMS” (SPS).

“A play on GPS tracking technology, Strange Positioning Systems (SPS) examines the aesthetic, cultural and psychological peculiarities of positioning the self and collective enterprises in a fluid, electronically - dislocated environment. The neighborhood or village of old no longer exists in the immediate vicinity. A crossbred community constructed of local and distant relationships, a variety of virtual spaces, and rapidly adjusted identities, ethnicities and even definitions of what constitutes the boundaries of the organism, now replaces it. Space is warping beyond repair. Ethnic identities are cross-breeding with each other and machines. The future will remain strange. Constant adjustment, a sense of permanent tilting, is de rigueur. “