Seth Wulsin
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Seth Wulsin is an artist working primarily with space and light through large-scale, site-specific, ephemeral sculpture and drawing.
Wulsin is best known for the work, 16 Tons, Prison Demolition, a massive ongoing, public piece in Buenos Aires
, Argentina
.
He is a member of the art collectives Artistas en Latino America and Wubacawi and founder of Cajitas (2009).
Wulsin currently lives and works in Brooklyn
, NY.
, before withdrawing to play music guitarist Solomon Silber. Between 2003 and 2005 he worked with the sculptor Ray King, helping to fabricate and install his large-scale public works.
Wulsin is best known for the work, 16 Tons, Prison Demolition, a massive ongoing, public piece in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
.
He is a member of the art collectives Artistas en Latino America and Wubacawi and founder of Cajitas (2009).
Wulsin currently lives and works in Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, NY.
Early life
He studied briefly at Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, before withdrawing to play music guitarist Solomon Silber. Between 2003 and 2005 he worked with the sculptor Ray King, helping to fabricate and install his large-scale public works.
Works
- Little Boxes (1999)
- Brown Hole (2002)
- Screen Portraits (2004)
- Reagan (2005)
- Jefferson (2006)
- Dale Globo! (2006)
- Caseros Prison Demolition Project – 16 Tons (2006)
- A Hole is to Dig - To China (Ongoing)
- Birth of the White Elephant (2007)
- Time Drops in Decay - Pozos, Tumbas, Horcas (2007-ongoing)
- Romulus and Remus (2007)
- White House Bamboo (2008)
- Subterranean Homesick Gold (2008-work in progress)
- Las Cajitas (2009)
- Cabeza de San Juan (2009
- Selva Vertical (2009-work in progress)
- Animas (2009-work in progress)
- Infinity also hurts (2010)