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ARTIST ARCHIVE
Dolly Unithan
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Themes: Conceptual spiritual, ready made object, ethnic identity communality Review: Dolly Unithan creates three dimensional mixed media art, in which she ingeniously utilizes Asian elements such as paper, twine, bamboo, and other materials indigenous to the country of her origin in the context of Conceptual Art and postmodern aesthetics. The recurrent themes in her works are mostly on humanity and environment. In his essay, "Dolly Unithan's Soaring Trans Era Metaphors," Ed McCormack mentions on this artist that "Unithan's use of such folk elements in a conceptual context is thoroughly in keeping with the wholistic, non-Eurocentric trend in world art for which her advisor Reynold C. Kerr, long an advocate of such art, has coined the term "Trans Era." Her work exemplifies this global spirit, with its strong sense of ancestral memory and ethnic identity building a bridge between past, present, and future, and finally transcending local knowledge to express a universal communality. By delving deeply into her ancestry, Unithan invents a new language with which to address the problems of the modern world." Available research materials on the artist in the AAAC Archives are 69 slides, 30 photographs of her mixed media art installations, copies of detailed explanation of her works written by the artist herself, invitation cards, three catalogs of the exhibitions in which her works were included and a magazine in which the artist is introduced as one of the women in pursuit of peace. | |||||||||
