Caitlin Masley

Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Artist Statement
In previous drawings, installations and sculptural works, I am often reconstructing space and architectural situations from ideas of possible worlds suiting the needs of changing landscape and its mobile population. The base of all this work begins with images from political media outlets, mining online archives or take my own photos when I can, from geopolitical and social structural projects around the world. From there, using various modern architectural materials, begins an obsessive treatment of space, meticulously hand recording every block, passageway, and texture on such a large scale to engulf the viewer and locate ourselves within the newly created space. Through layering and subtracting fractions of various structures, the works collectively record the invisible history of where; where we go, where we live, how we create, erase or redraw borders and the colors that depict this visual information. The viewer sees a wasteland, contrast of negative and positive space; intricate labyrinths to promote the intimacy of mapping and emotions. These works result in completely organic and unpredictable image; seeped in an emotional and political texture of lands...

2002/3 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York
2004 Kunstlerhaus Salzburg International Residency, Salzburg, Austria
2005 Schinkel-Progressive Residency, Berlin, Germany
2006 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Residency, Trondheim, Norway
2007 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Swing Space Grant and Residency, New York
2007 Pollock-Krasner Grant
2008 Künstlerwohnung Chretzeturm, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
2009 Action Art Actuel, Centre d’Artistes Autogere Residency, Quebec
2009/10 Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlement, New York
2010 Puffin Foundation Grant
2011 Manhattan Graphics Center Residency/Scholarship

2010-11
neo habitats, SITE 92 projects, Smack Mellon Gallery, New York
“expo ‘67”, video screening, Big screen project, New York
Caitlin Masley, Wirksworth Art and Architecture Festival, Derbyshire, England
somewhere in the middle, Galleri 5, Denmark