LigoranoReese 

is the collaboration of artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, a singular vision that fuses the two artists’ individual conceptual contributions into a powerful voice. Starting in the early 1980’s, LigoranoReese’s began investigating the impact of technology on culture and the associations and meanings that the media brings to images, languages, and speech. Their body of work is multidisciplinary, including limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations which involve a range of materials and processes. The Melted Away installations: The State of Things, Main Street Meltdown, Morning in America, Dawn of the Anthropocene and Truth Be Told (2006-2018) are performative sculptures carved in ice. Environmental processes of erosion and decay are superimposed over flexible long durational time spans. These pieces make profound political statements using the simple elements of disappearing ice and open form structure to invite community interaction.

LigoranoReese’s works from 2000-the present reinterpret older forms of technology using mirrors, clocks, codex bindings embedded with video screens. In 2003, they invented micro-projection systems to display Hollywood war films on the head of a pin and films of refugees on counterweights of metronomes. 50 Different Minds, their first fiber optic data tapestry debuted at the Zer01 Festival in San Jose in September 2010. It is a computer controlled, woven fiber optic wall piece animating patterns and colors through the textile’s threads from real-time internet data. Subsequent tapestries weave personal data into data portraits generating patterns based on an individual’s Fitbit data and PIN numbers.

LigoranoReese have shown widely throughout their career and are included in the public collections of many institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The New York Public Library; University of Wyoming Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. They have been awarded multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and have received artist residencies at Stichting Steim in Holland and the Eyebeam Center for Art & Technology, among others. LigoranoReese live and work in Brooklyn, New York. They show with Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco and Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York.

For more information ligoranoreese.net.