Marie Lorenz

On March 12th, Marie Lorenz will begin work on Flow Pool, a two-month long project that proposes the titular structure as a site for investigating questions ranging from the practical to the poetic.

Lorenz will begin by building a hydrodynamics test tank inspired by the Oblique Sea Basin at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. While these tanks are designed to test the movement of marine vessels such as ships, submarines, and robotic deep-sea vehicles, Lorenz's pool will instead facilitate exploration of topics including fictional space, the staging of bodies of water in motion pictures, and the possibilities of a submerged New York City.

After construction is complete, Lorenz will invite scientists, writers, musicians, and other practitioners to conduct experiments in the tank or host events around the flow pool. On Saturdays in April, Lorenz will host Pool Parties—drop-in events where visitors are invited to bring in materials and ideas to test in the tank. Guided by the artist's interest in floating as a transformative experience, the activities and possibilities associated with the structure will evolve and take shape over the course of the Session.

Marie Lorenz: Flow Pool is part of Recess’s signature program, Session, which invites artists to use Recess’s public platform to combine productive studio space with dynamic exhibition opportunities. Sessions remain open to the public from the first day of the artist's project through the last, encouraging sustained dialogue between artists and audiences. Due to the process-based nature of Session, projects undergo constant revision and the above proposal is subject to change; consult the project website, recessart.org/marie-lorenz-flow-pool, for accruing information on the Session’s developments.

Marie Lorenz was born in Twentynine Palms, California. Lorenz received a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from Yale. She has received grants from Artists Space, the Harpo Foundation, and the Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship. In 2008 she was awarded the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize for the American Academy in Rome. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, from High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, California, to MoMA PS1, in New York, New York. She has completed solo projects at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England; Artpace in San Antonio, Texas; and at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, New York. Her ongoing project ‘The Tide and Current Taxi’ is an exploration of the coastline in New York City.

Events:

An Evening with Alan Blumberg, Oceanographer: April 7, 6-8pm

An Evening with ‘Underwater New York’: April 21, 6-8pm

Sound Experiments by Rachel Golub: April 30, 5-7pm

Sound Experiments by Brian Chippendale: May 5, 6-8pm

Pool Parties: Saturdays in April, 12-6pm