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Kaari upson biography of alberta

          Upson is best known for The Larry Project (–12), a seven-year-long project that reconstructed the life of an eccentric and menacing missing.

        1. Upson is best known for The Larry Project (–12), a seven-year-long project that reconstructed the life of an eccentric and menacing missing.
        2. Kaari Upson, Identical Twins (Jouissance), “Upson is a strong female artist who trained at Cal arts as a painter.
        3. Kaari Upson, an American artist whose uncanny sculptures, videos, drawings and performances probed the dark sides of domesticity and desire, died on Wednesday.
        4. Elaine Cameron-Weir was born in in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, and lives and works in New York.
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          6. Kaari Upson, an American artist whose uncanny sculptures, videos, drawings and performances probed the dark sides of domesticity and desire, died on Wednesday.!

          Even MagazineGlobal perspective on contemporary art and culture

          In 2005, while still a student at CalArts, Kaari Upson began a prodigious, open-ended examination into the life of a man she has never met.

          Two years previously, she’d walked into the abandoned, foreclosed McMansion next door to her parents’ house, and there, between two different wildfires, she found reams of letters and legal documents — plus a mattress in every room.

          The occupant of that ersatz Playboy Mansion became the absent heart of Upson’s all-absorbing “Larry Project,” which saw the artist produce paintings of Larry, videos of Larry, even a full-scale Larry doll. The theme of absent bodies continues in her more recent silicone casts of beds and couches, whose tumescent forms can feel at once despondent and lecherous.

          Upson was born in San Bernardino, Calif., in 1972, and began her career as a painter; her recent mattress casts, she tells me pointedly, see her returning to objects with “four sid