Venus in Natural History, 2020
Watercolor ink on archival paper
52.75 x 42.75 inches
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FALLEN FRUIT is an art collective that uses found objects, ephemeral materials, and public spaces. The collaborative art projects began in Los Angeles in 2004 by making maps of "public fruit"- fruit trees that grow on or over public property. Fallen Fruit uses cartography and geography as an indexical tool to create serialized and site-specific works of art that often embrace public participation. The work of Fallen Fruit includes photographic portraits, experimental documentary videos, public art installations, and exhibition projects. Using fruit as a method of interrogating the familiar, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood, and new forms of citizenship. From protests to proposals for new urban green space, Fallen Fruit's work aims to reconfigure the relationship of sharing and explore understandings of public and private. Recent exhibition projects include commissioned works by LACMA, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Athens Biennale, Prospect 3+, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Portland Art Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts, among others. Fallen Fruit was originally conceived by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Since 2013, Burns and Young have continued the collaborative work.
Artists-in-Residence, 2015
David Burns currently lives and works in Southern California. His recent solo video work has shown in numerous festivals and exhibitions including; The Getty Center, Los Angeles, The Tate Modern/Tank.tv, London, The Armenian Museum of Experimental Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, and in festivals including; InsideOUT, OutFest, MIX, NE\WFEST, Chicago Underground Film Festival, among others. Burns' recent art projects have been exhibited at The Athens Biennale, Greece, Ars Electronica, Austria, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Netherlands Architecture Institute at Maastricht, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Armory Center for the Arts, Machine Project, and Artists Space in New York. Reviews and publishing on his recent works may be seen in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art Forum, and many more. Recent curatorial projects include: Artists + Institutions with Sarah Beadle, Let Them Eat LACMA with Jose Luis Blondet, and The Drama of the Gifted Child for The Armory Center for the Arts, among others. Awards include: Creative Capital, Metlife Grant, Art Matters, Goodworks, LA Weekly's Best of L.A., among others. He earned a BFA from California Institute of Arts and an MFA in Studio Art from UC Irvine.
Austin Young is an artist based in Los Angeles who works primarily in photography and video. His photography has been published regularly in Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine, as well as Surface, Flaunt, Vogue, Spin, Rolling Stone, Q, Taschen's 1000 Favorite Websites, among others. His art collective, TRANIMAL Workshop has shown at Machine Project, The Hammer, and BAM. He has worked with performance artists such as Diamanda Galas, Margaret Cho, Skinny Puppy, Holy Body Tattoo and The Velvet Hammer Burlesque creating their recent images. His portraiture includes: Leigh Bowery, Lypsinka, Siouxsie Sioux, Nina Hagen, Debbie Harry, Jimmy Scott, John Doe, and many more. Recent projects have shown in galleries including; LACMA, Artists Space, Netherlands Architecture Institute at Maastricht, The Craft and Folk Art Museum, University Art Gallery at UC Irvine, among others. Recent videos have screened at InsideOUT, Mix Festival, Frameline, Reeling, MIX NYC and The Silver Lake Film Festival. Awards include: Andy Warhol Foundation, Metlife Grant, Art Matters, Goodworks, and YouTube Featured Video.
