EXCERPT FROM:
The Boston Sunday Globe, January 7, 2001
Video Artist Marika gets physical
by Cate McQuaid
Denise
Marika's new video piece, "Axis" is at the Danforth Museum of
Art in Framingham. In "Axis" the nude figure is a "stand
in" for the viewer's own exposed self. The artist's huddled body
rotates on facing walls and rotate like the hands of a clock on the left
and right walls while another projected video on the third wall contains
a thin 30-foot long band of video. While experiencing the three-video
projections the layered sounds of water lapping plays against screeching
fingernails on a chalkboard. Marika
started her career as a stone carver and still thinks of herself as a
sculptor. Since graduate school at UCLA she has been working with video.
She enjoys the physical challenges of working sculpturally and compares
these challenges to rock climbing another one of her passions and often
throws herself onto her work physically. In "Recoil" she was
stoned with "small replicas of herself", which deals with the
bare essence of what it is to be human Marika
enjoys putting herself in difficult spots, both in her work and life,
feeling that we learn the most from those moments.
"Axis" is on display through January 28th. ...
Denise
Marika's new video piece, "Axis" is at the Danforth Museum of
Art in Framingham. In "Axis" the nude figure is a "stand
in" for the viewer's own exposed self. The artist's huddled body
rotates on facing walls and rotate like the hands of a clock on the left
and right walls while another projected video on the third wall contains
a thin 30-foot long band of video. While experiencing the three-video
projections the layered sounds of water lapping plays against screeching
fingernails on a chalkboard.