DNA Match Collapsing, 2019

Handmade, hand-dyed cotton paper on panel

40 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 2 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $4,800

Starting Bid: $3,360

Buy It Now: $7,200

LAURIE FRICK uses data to examine what we can know about ourselves. In her hand-built installations, drawings, and small works she experiments with how we will consume the mass of data increasingly captured about us. She holds an MFA from the New York Studio School, an MBA from University of Southern California and studied at NYU's ITP program that melded art and technology into her current data work. Frick's artwork has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and art spaces across North America, including Musee de la Civilization in Quebec City, Science Museum in Oklahoma City, Pavel Zoubok in New York, and Edward Cella in Los Angeles. She is represented by GF Contemporary, Blueprint, Michele Mariaud, and Ivester Contemporary galleries. Her work is included in the fall 2024 show Pacific Standard Time, sponsored by the Getty in Los Angeles.

"The amount of DNA you overlap with your siblings can be so revealing, the percentages vary quite a bit. Close relationships don't always map to DNA shared. Haplogroups are akin to the original tribes of humans from different parts of the globe. And if you get very nerdy you can look up all those 2nd, 3rd and 4th cousins who you share NDA and map the tiny percentage overlaps for each chromosome."

Artist-in-Residence, 2009