Seth Wulsin
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Seth Wulsin (born in Spring Valley, NY) 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,[1] 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.
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Early life
He studied briefly at Yale University, before withdrawing to compose and play music in the band Wildbone, with guitarist Solomon Silber.[2] 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)[3]
- Infinity also hurts (2010)
References
- ↑ Caroline Winter, With a Hammer, Finding Ghosts in the Glass, The New York Times, August 5, 2007.
- ↑ Ross Tiefenthaler, "Drop out, join a band", "The Yale Daily, January 24, 2003
- ↑ Queequeg - Seth Wulsin, YouTube.
