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Max Liboiron
Max Liboiron produces art that a rises from her exper iences in northern Canada on a working acreage, in her ear ly studies of biology, and in her more recent studies in cultura l studies. She holds an MFA and cert ific ate of Cultural Studies from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a BFA with Dist inction from Mount Al lison University in Sackvil le, New Brunswick. Her work has been shown in Canada, Ireland, and New York, including the SoHo Photo Gallery, The Internationa l Print Center New York, and in v arious univers ity art ga lleries around the country. The work encompa sses instal lation, sculpture, printmak ing, animat ion, digita l and pinhole photog raphy, and drawing. Liboiron cur rent ly teaches drawing, animation, and digita l imaging at SUNY Stony Brook and Suf folk Community College, NY. Artist’s Statement - Recent Work: What get s to “count” as nature is part of a larger narrative within Western culture. I use several media to move around the hybridity between nature and culture and the narra tives that strive to keep them apart. I explore many of these themes within the visua l trope of the natura l history diorama. My recent work depict s the violence, collaboration, confusion, limina lity, and int imacy tha t is at sta ke when enacted hybridity between nature and culture- not the mainst ream, sanit ized, hal f-and-ha lf ver sion, but the messy hybridit y with no clea r point of origin. These alternative narrat ives pos it nature as a loc al place made of humans, technology, anima ls, socia l expect ations, economies, and the relat ionships between them.
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