Nina Katchadourian Salt&Pepper Shakers Norton Gift 2007 Start Price USD 300.00 Current Price USD 300.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, July 04, 2008 End Time Friday, July 11, 2008 Location New York, NY See more about 'Nina Katchadourian Salt&Pepper Shakers Norton Gift 2007' Description This sculptural multiple is one of a limited edition made by the contemporary artist Nina Katchadourian.  It was commisioned as the ultra-prestigious Norton Family Christmas Project for 2007.  NEW, UNOPENED IN BOX!!! (PICTURE IS FROM INTERNET) Nina Katchadourian Salt and Pepper Shakers, 2007 All of the accompanying materials are included, (the original box, description card of the work, etc) - The work is in PRISTINE condition, barely touched. Nina Katchadourian's work springs from observations of the colloquial and the everyday. She frequently uses misunderstanding or misinterpretations as a starting point, and often applies this approach to looking at the human relationship to the natural. Having once mistaken a bird in a remote jungle for a car alarm, she redesigned the standard six-tone car alarm to use only bird sounds. This salt shaker merges two familiar objects. It smuggles the tiny spectacle of a snow dome into a domestic context where treating this object in the normal manner (turning it upside down to shake the salt out) results in a sudden small-scale blizzard. Its partner, the pepper shaker, behaves the same way but its particulate matter suggests another kind of phenomenon (pollution, debris, ashes), one more man-made and less pristine. This pair of objects is intended to lie dormant, camouflaged into the landscape of the kitchen counter, until the landscapes they each contain are shaken to life. The Norton Family Christmas Project commissions are sent to the creme de la creme of the art world each year as a Christmas gift from Peter Norton, software multi-millionaire, and super influential collector of contemporary art (he owns one of the largest modern contemporary art collections in the USA).  It is a select and exclusive group of collectors, dealers, curators and art world elite that receive this gift ! This is an exclusive opportunity, a definite collectors item, and a definitely solid investment (see article below from NYT): http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/arts/design/18kino.html?ex=1170824400&en=d908de91a83fd993&ei=5070Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. She is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, the Palais de Tokyo, and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled "All Forms of Attraction."EDUCATION1996 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program1993 University of California, San DiegoM.F.A., Visual Art1989 Brown UniversityB.A. Visual Arts and B.A. Literature and SocietySOLO EXHIBITIONS2008 CERCA series, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art2007 Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York (fall)2006 Office Semaphore, "In the Public Realm" series for the Public Art Fund, New YorkOpener 11, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New YorkThe Kinship Report, Catharine Clark Gallery, San FranciscoNatural Misunderstandings, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WIWorks Made in Finland by Nina Katchadourian, Turku Art Museum, Turku, FinlandPlease, Please, Pleased to Meet'cha, commission for Wave Hill, The BronxOffice Semaphore, commission for "In the Public Realm," Public Art Fund, New York2005 The Genealogy of the Supermarket and Other New Works, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New YorkSorting Strindberg, IASPIS Galleriet, Stockholm, Stadsbiblioteket, Stockholm, and Luna Kulturhus, Södertälje,SwedenThe Genealogy of the Supermarket and Other New Works, Catharine Clark gallery, San Francisco2003 Natural Crossdressing, Uninvited Collaborations with Nature, and One Small Act of Endurance,Debs & Co., New York, NYAnimal Crossdressing, Uninvited Collaborations with Nature, and One Small Act of Endurance,Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco2002 Selected Works, Hudson (Show)Room, ArtPace, San Antonio, TexasGeflickte Spinnweben, Paranormale Postkarten, Musikalischer Abfall, ACC Galerie, Weimar, GermanyNatural Car Alarms, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, NY2001 Talking Popcorn, Indecision on the Moon and Eight Years of Sorting Books, Catharine Clark Gallery, SanFranciscoTalking Popcorn, Paranormal Postcards, and Indecision on the Moon, Debs & Co., New York, NY (catalog)Eight Years of Sorting Books, Debs & Co., New York, NYThe Akron Stacks, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio1999 Mended Spiderwebs and Other Natural Misunderstandings, Debs & Co., New York, NY (catalog)1996 Special Collections, The Athenaeum Gallery, La Jolla, California1993 Re-Routing, Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego, CaliforniaGROUP EXHIBITIONS2007 International Residency Program Group Show, Location One, New YorkPlay on Words, University of Delaware Museum, Newark, Delaware2006 Space is the Place, ICI traveling exhibitionsThe Food Show: The Hungry Eye, Chelsea Art Museum, New YorkFacticious, Pierogi Leipzig, GermanyPlace Marker, Cuchifritos gallery, New YorkMoved by the Machine: Art Inspired by the Automobile, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IALabyrinth, Botkyrka Konsthall, Botkyrka, SwedenLibrary, Proteus Gowanus, BrooklynAnimal!, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, CanadaWhen Artists Say We, Artists Space, New YorkDynasty, MC Gallery, New YorkElusive Materials, New Langton Arts, San FranciscoWelcome Home, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New YorkThe Only Book, Center for Book Arts, New YorkFigures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, traveling2005 Performa, New YorkLibrary, Storrs Art Gallery, University of ConnecticutSeveral Artists Consider Books, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los AngelesPost Everything, Rotunda gallery, BrooklynWe Could Have Invited Everyone, Andrew Kreps gallery, New YorkOver and Over: Passion for Process, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL (traveling)Regarding Clementine, Clementine Gallery, NYGothenburg Film Festival (screening of CARPARK), Gothenburg, SwedenInside Out Loud, Mildred Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MONew Tapestries, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York2004 Romantic Detachment, PS1/MoMASixth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, The New Museum, NY (traveling)Animal Instincts, Montalvo, Saratoga Springs, CABug-Eyed: Art, Culture, Insects, Turtle Bay Museum, Redding, CAHarlem Postcards, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYSacred Texts, Minneapolis College of Art and DesignOne in a Million, Austrian Cultural Forum, New YorkLineaments of Gratified Desire, Catharine Clark Gallery, San FranciscoOpen House, Brooklyn Museum of ArtBirdspace: A Post-Audubon Aviary, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans (traveling)2003 American Dream, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New YorkExhibiting Signs of Age, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA and Colby College Art Museum,Waterville, MEGlobal Priority, Herter Art Gallery, UMass Amherst, MALiving in a Cloud, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, IrelandSynthetic Lightning: Complex Simulations of Nature, Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NYThe Luminous Image, VI, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NYFaculty Exhibition 2003, David Winton Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RIs(how), Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (traveling)Neuberger Museum of Art 2003 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NYTerritories: Mapping a Sense of Place, ArtSpace, New Haven, and Galerie für Landschaftskunst, HamburgExhibiting Signs of Age, Berkeley Art Museum and Colby College Art Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (catalog)2002 Parting Line, New Langton Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CaliforniaA Given Circumstance, Arcadia Art Gallery, Glenside, PAWords In Deeds, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ORNostalgia, Art in General on Canal, New York, NYLooming Large, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CABooks Without Pages, Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, IDPresentness is Grace, Arnolfini and Spacex (UK), (catalog)2001 Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalog)Elsewhere, Here Gallery, New York, NYPlay's the Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, City University of New YorkGallery, New York (catalog)The Cat's Away, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NYGroup Show, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Los AngelesLet's Get To Work, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA and University of the Arts Museum, PAThe World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs,NY(catalog)Video Screenings, Video Lounge, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA"THEM!", Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, NYTenth Anniversary Show, Catharine Clark Gallery, San FranciscoVideo Selections, San Francisco Airport Museums Virgin Airlines Terminal, San Francisco2000 The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London (catalog)From the Inside Out, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CAAural Sex, Catharine Clark Gallery, San FranciscoAnywhere But Here, Artists Space, New York, NYHuman/Nature, Caren Golden Gallery, New York, NYGreater New York, MoMA/PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY (catalog)Wildlife: A Field Guide to the Post-Natural, The Museum of Textiles, Toronto (catalog)Millennium Bugs, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY (catalog)1999 Interventions, Catharine Clark Gallery, San FranciscoRewriting the City, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NYCremolata Flottage, Staten Island Ferry, New YorkIndoors/Outdoors, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, FinlandAlternative:Alternative, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn1998 Stars of Track and Field, Debs & Co., New York, NYSyner/Sights/Näkyjä, Knipnäs Konstnärskoloni, Ekenäs, FinlandSpeed of Life, Artnode, StockholmFukt, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden1997 Permutations, Artists Space, New York,_NYUrban Perturbations, Steffany Martz Gallery, New YorkAutoShow, Kassel, Germany and Stockholm, SwedenCartographers: Geo-Gnostic Project for the 21st Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia(catalog)Runt om oss, Inom oss/Inside us, Around us, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden (catalog)You Can't Get There From Here, Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, NYSongs of the Islands, Elevator Audio Project, Art in General, New York, New York1996 Constrictions, Pierogi Gallery, BrooklynSubjective Play, Spot Gallery, New York, NYElgaland/Vargaland (C.M. Von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren), Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New YorkMaps, Charts and Routes, Irvine Center for the Arts, Irvine, CA1995 Unchained, Galleri Kutschschtall, Potsdam, Germany1994 CARPARK, inSITE '94, San Diego, CA (catalog)CARPARK, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CAUnSitely '94, Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego, CAinSITE '94, San Diego Museum of Natural History, San Diego, CA (catalog)1993 Muu Media Festival, Helsinki, FinlandThe Things They Do with Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA1992 Lahden Biennale, Lahti, FinlandinSITE '92, San Diego, CA30 Years 21 Minutes 17 Tapes, A.V. ARKKI, Helsinki, FinlandSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY2007 Opener 11: All Forms of Attraction, exhibition catalog, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2006.Dialogue with Ian Berry and essay by Frances Richard2006 The New Yorker, Nina Katchadourian, December 18, 2006The New York Times, "Nina Katchadourian," December 1, 2006The New York Times, "Watch that Space: The Oracle of the 17th Floor," November 21, 2006Frieze, "Nina Katchadourian," James Trainor, Nov/Dec issue, p. 172WFUV, Cityscapes, November 4, 2006Weekend America, NPR, "Song and Memory," July 8, 2006WNYC, Studio 360, "Birdsongs," September 7, 2006Art in America, "Nina Katchadourian at Sara Meltzer," Gregory Volk, p. 14The San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, "Nina Katchadourian at Catharine Clark gallery," AugustThe New York Times, "Two Odes to Nature, Grand and Demure," Ken Johnson, July 14New Langton Arts, "Elusive Materials," Maria del Carmen Carrion, March 16-April 222005 The New York Times Magazine, "What We Eat: Kings of Convenience," Amanda Hesser,JuneThe New York Times, "We Could Have Invited Everyone," Roberta Smith, July 15thArarat, "The World According to Nina Katchadourian," Neery Melkonian, pp6-8, Fall issue, no. 184TimeOut New York, "The Genealogy of the Supermarket and Other New Works" , Merrily KerrThe New Yorker, June 13th & 23rdThe Believer, The Genealogy of the Supermarket, artists project, Dec/January issueCourrier International, Atlas Issue, March-April 2005, p. 129Svenska Dagbladet, "Nina Katchadourian på Iaspisgalleriet," February 12, Sophie Allgårdh2004 You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Princeton University PressBirdspace: A Post-Audubon Aviary, David Rubin, CAA, New OrleansOne In a Million: Economies of the Self in Everyday Life, Austrian Cultural Forum, New YorkBug-Eyed: Art, Culture, Insects, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, p. 23www.stretcher.org, "Smelling a Rat: Nina Katchadourian"The Mercury News, "Animal Attraction," October 26th, 2004, Jack FisherOpen House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum2003 American Dream, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New YorkNew York Times, "Using Illumination to Truly See," December 2003, Benjamin GennochioArt in America, "Nina Katchadourian at Debs & Co.", June 2003, Maura Reily, pp. 122Time Out/New York, "Nina Katchadourian, Natural Crossdressing, Uninvited Collaborations andOne Small Act of Endurance", February 20-27, 2003, Steven Stern, pp. 51Art—A Sex Book, John Waters and Jack Hainley, Thames and Hudson, LondonThe New Yorker, February 17 & 24, 2003, editors, pp. 40WWD, "Art Attack", February 7, 2003, editors, pp. 42002 The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Art that demands close look", December 8, 2002, Edward J. SozanskiOpen City, "From the Sorted Books Project" (artist's project), number 16 (winter 2002-2003)Studio 360 (National Public Radio), show #340, October 5, Tania KetenjianSculpture, "Inscription & Testimony, Public Art and Shared Experiences," October, Patricia C. Phillips, pp. 45-49ArtForum, "Nina Katchadourian—Sculpture Center," October issue, Frances Richard, pp. 153GQ (USA) and GQ (Taiwan), "Personal Best" (reproduction of Artificial Insemination), September/OctoberArt Journal, "One Small Step (for Nina Katchadourian)," Fall issue, Daniel Rosenberg, pp. 32-39Hufvudstadsbladet, "Från NY till Pörtö, August 10, Dan SundellThe New Yorker, July 22, p. 17 (eds.)All Things Considered (National Public Radio), "The Call of the Wild Car Alarm," July 11, Rick CarrTime Out/New York, "Call of the Wild," July 4-11, Tim GriffinNew York Magazine, ""Queens Modern," June 17, Alexandra LangeFrieze, "Presentness Is Grace," issue 67, May (eds.)2001 Venue, "Presentness Is Grace," December 7-12, Tom PhillipsSunday Patriot News, "Co-Curators Show a Working Exhibit, " July 29, Zachary LewisAkron Beacon Journal, "Where popcorn talks and puns are piled high," March 11, Dorothy ShinnArt/Text, "Nina Katchadourian," May-July issue, Tim GriffinTime Out/New York, "Nina Katchadourian,Talking Popcorn...," Martha Schwendener, February 15The New Yorker, "Nina Katchadourian," February 5, editors2000 The New York Times, "Human/Nature at Caren Golden," July 21, Ken JohnsonTime Out/New York, "Human/Nature," July 27, Robert Mahoney (repr.)The New Yorker, "Anywhere but Here," July 17, editorsTime Out/New York, "Anywhere but Here," July 6, David Hunt, Issue 250Art in America, "The Emergent Factor," July issue, Carol Kino, pp 44-49Evening Standard, "Improving on nature's work," April 7, Simon GrantTime Out/London, "The Greenhouse Effect," Sarah Kent, April 19The Independent, "From urban jungle to upside-down world," May 8, Christopher HirstThe Times - London, "Redoing what comes naturally," April 12, Rachel Campbell-Johnston, p. 21Financial Times - London, "London's green and pleasant land," April 11, William PackerThe Daily Telegraph, "Natural born thriller," March 19, Richard DormentThe Guardian, "Stuck in the woods," April 4, Adrian SearleThebrooklynrail.com, "Greater New York Art In New York Now," D. Baird, Issue 34, MarchThe New York Times, "New York Contemporary, Defined 150 Ways," March 6, Holland Cotter, pp E1, E5The New York Times, "Millennium Bug," February 13, Helen A. Harrison, p. LI 12.RESIDENCIES, GRANTS AND AWARDS2006 Location One, artist in residence, New York2005 Svenska Kulturfonden support grant, Finland2004 International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm2003 Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation awardNew York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (video)Peter S. Reed Foundation award2002 Tiffany Foundation for the Arts awardAmerican Scandinavian Foundation grant2001 Caribbean Contemporary Art Center Artist-in-Residence, Port of Spain, Trinidad1998 Konstsamfundet Artists grant, Helsinki, Finland1994 MacDowell Colony Artist-in-Residence, Peterborough, NH1994 Art Matters grant1992 Russell Foundation grant1989 Hugh Townley Award for ExcellenceLECTURES AND VISITING ARTIST TALKSACC Galerie, Weimar, GermanyArcadia Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PAArtPace, San Antonio, TXAV Arkki, Helsinki, FinlandArtists Space, New York , NYBrown University, Providence, RICalifornia College of Art, San Francisco, CACaribbean Contemporary Arts Center, Trinidad, West IndiesCatharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CACity University of New York, NYCollege Art Association 2002, Public Art panelColorado University, Boulder, COConcordia University, MontrealDIA Center for the Arts, NYHerron School of Art, Indianapolis, INHunter College, NYISEA 2004, Helsinki, FinlandMaryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MDMyers School of Art, Akron, OHMontclair State University, Montclair, NJNomads and Residents, New YorkParsons School of Design, NYRhode Island School of Design, Providence, RIRutgers University, New Brunswick, NJSan Francisco Art Institute, CASchool of Visual Arts, NYSculptureCenter, NYSUNY New Paltz, NYTang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NYUniversity of Baltimore Maryland College, Baltimore, MDUniversity of California, Berkeley, CAUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CAUniversity of Eugene, Eugene, ORVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VAYale University, New Haven, CTTEACHING EXPERIENCE2007 The Oxbow School, Napa, CA. 10-day sound art studio course2006 Cooper Union School of Art, course on the methodology of studio practiceNon-resident Studio Advisor, MFA student Jewel Rechsteiner, MECA, Portland, MEIndependent Study Advisor, MFA student Tara Santini, Union College, VT2004-2006 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RIAdjunct Faculty, Sculpture"New York, New York" (contemporary art in New York City, field trip and seminar class)"Pets, Pests, etc: Animals in Art" (2005 winter session sculpture studio elective on historical, culturaland artistic issues regarding animals and art)"Issues in Contemporary Sculpture" (required seminar for all Juniors in Sculpture)2001-2004 Brown University, Providence, RIAdjunct Faculty, Visual Art Department"Introduction to Studio Art" (foundations course emphasizing drawing)"Advanced Drawing""Beginning Drawing""Negotiating the Everyday" (combination seminar/studio art class on art and everyday life)2001 California College of Art, San Francisco, CAGuest Lecturer"Barely Public Art" (one week graduate workshop/lecture course on contemporary public artpractices)2000 Myers School of Art, Akron, OHGuest Lecturer"Barely Public Art" (four week undergraduate workshop/lecture course on contemporary public artpractices)Nina Katchadourian is currently the Viewing Program Curator at The Drawing Center, New York.  Place a Bid!