Carla Gannis


Carla Gannis is an American transmedia artist based in New York and professor at the Pratt Institute in the Department of Digital Arts until 2019 when she joined New York University. Her works combine digital imagery with well-known works of art such as paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She received widespread attention in 2013 for her emoji version of Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Biography

Early life

Carla Gannis was born and raised in Oxford, North Carolina. Gannis attended the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she received her BFA degree in painting. She then continued her education at Boston University, moving north to a much larger city in the hope of expanding her horizons and technical skills. It was at Boston University that she received her MFA degree in painting.

Career

In the early 1990s, Gannis began shifting her focus from painting and began to implement digital aspects into her works. Since 2003, she has had 20 solo exhibitions, many of which carry her common conceptual elements of power, sexuality, and storytelling. Throughout her artistic career, Gannis has used new concepts and media with the changes in surrounding technologies. Gannis lives in Brooklyn, New York and worked as a professor and assistant chairperson at The Department of Digital Arts at the Pratt Institute, when she joined New York University. In 2019, she contributed to produce a chapter based on an interview about her work in the book Museums and Digital Culture.

Works

  • 1997- Wall Samples, Mixed Media, Dimensions variable
  • 1997- Little White Lies, Digitally Printed Poster, 16x20 inches
  • 1998- Average Rage, Digital C-Prints, 7×9 inches
  • 1998- Equestrian, Digital C-Print, 8.5×11 inches
  • 1998- Punctum, Digital C-Prints, 8x10 inches
  • 1999- Scandals Postcards, Mixed Media, 4x5 inches
  • 1999- Here, Video, Wall Relief, Sound Installation, Dimensions Variable
  • 1999- Measure, 6 Digital Pigment Prints with whiteout, 8x10 inches
  • 1999- Crescent Series, Digital C-Prints, 13x16 inches
  • 2000- James Bond Series, Video Stills from Playing Smart, J.a.n.e., Wild Things
  • 2000- 6-minute Video Animation
  • 2001- <2 6 minute Video Animation
  • 2001- Mobilux 4RT, 6-minute Video Animation
  • 2001–2002- Transmit 1 0, Animate Video and Sound Sculpture, 15 minutes
  • 2002–2004- Transmit 1 0, Digital Pigment Prints, 8x8 inches

    Projects

  • Travelogue- 2002–2004, digital pigment prints
  • I Dream of Jeannie Emerging from a Fresca Bottle- 2005, wall painting acrylic and digital collage, digital pigment prints
  • Everything That Rises Must Converge- 2006, digital pigment print
  • Jezebel- 2008, digital pigment print, c-print on aluminium with Plexiglas
  • What's Not on My Mind- 2009–2010, mixed media, digital drawings, digital C-prints
;Smart Device/Multiple Exposures- 2011, digital pigment prints
  • Robbi Carni Project- 15-foot digital drawing, character drawings inspired by collaboration with Pseudonymous Twitter writers
  • The Multiversal Hippozoonomadon & Prismenagerie- 2012, digital pigment print
  • Legend Legend- 2013, collaborative project of poems and drawings based on text redactions of the Book of Earths by Edna Kenton
;Non-Facial Recognition- 2011-ongoing, digital pigment prints and editions of 5
;The Garden of Emoji Delights, 2013–2014, digital pigment prints, videos, and 3D
;A Subject Self-Defined- 2015–2016, video installations and book

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions