Our current featured artist, Amy Jorgensen, will be speaking tomorrow night at Weber State University. This is a great opportunity to hear about Jorgensen’s unique photography process, philosophy and inspiration.

Location: Lindquist Lecture Hall, KA 120, Kimball Visual Arts Building

Date: Tuesday, November 29

Time: 7:00- 8:00pm

Sponsored and hosted by the Weber State Department of Visual Arts

Utah contemporary artist Amy Jorgensen explains her Body Archive series:

“Body Archive began as an inquiry into the practices and aesthetics of historical  criminal photography and associated assumptions of the photograph as a document of the moment, or a representation of truth – what Walter Benjamin describes as  evidence of an occurrence. Technological innovation in contemporary forensic  methodologies position the body as the central locale for the collection of residual  trace evidence. As a culture we are spellbound by the potential implications found in skin cells, DNA strands, and microscopic fibers, as evidenced by the multitude of  television series dedicated solely to the reporting and dramatization of criminal investigations.

This work examines our artistic and scientific expectations of photography and the body in challenging and transformative ways. Traditional notions of the body in art – the figure as object on view – are set aside to consider the body as an active participant in artistic process. I incorporate performance and photography with a willingness to use my own body as both test subject and subject matter in an investigation of personal and cultural assumptions linked to violence, media, the body, and photographic practice.

I explore the body as a site of experience, and the body as both repository and author of information. In an attempt to develop a document without bias and point of view, I place photographic emulsion, sans camera, on the surface of my body to record my actions. The images are created over time: minutes, hours. The resulting photographs are the striking visual residue of my experience: traces of
body fluid, clothing, skin prints, and the fine edges of body hair are evidence of my occurrence. I live in a body. And my body is an archive, my skin the surface through which I experience the world.”

Amy Jorgensen was born in Milan, Italy. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University in 1997, and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2002. She currently lives and works remotely in Utah.

To see more of Amy Jorgensen’s available works through Mondo Fine Art, click HERE

If you’ve been wondering why we haven’t been doing as many shows this fall, like we usually do, it is because we have been updating our business model, and by extension, our website, and are pleased to announce that the new beta site is live!

One of the major changes you will notice on our website and with our business in general is more of a focus on consulting.  Since the beginning, Mondo has been more than an online gallery with pop-up exhibitions, it has also been a source for people looking for specific art pieces for their collections and projects. We have enjoyed guiding our clients through this process and finding works that are suited to their collecting goals.

With our growing number of collectors and designers, with their unique collecting goals or vision, we have expanded our network of artists and galleries that we work with, to provide even more options, and better serve our clientele.  We still work regularly with our original group of Mondo artists, and have access to their artwork, and also commission works with them on projects.  Our featured artwork page is now dedicated to a more revolving set of featured artwork, showcasing spotlight artists or works of art that are currently on view.

We at Mondo want to understand you better, so we have developed a new online tool, my mondo, which allows you to create your own private profile where you can list your art preferences.  Once you’ve set up your preferences, we will then create a private viewing gallery of artwork that we think you will enjoy.  You can provide instant feedback on the works, letting us know what you like or don’t like. This is especially beneficial for our designers, as we will be able to organize your artwork by project, with each having their own gallery.

Since our website is still in beta, we want your feedback! If there is anything we can do to make the site even more user friendly, please let us know by emailing us at info@mondofineart.com, with subject “beta site”.

Thank you for your continued support over the past two years and helping make all this possible!