Vanessa KAMP
December 10-14, 2003


"I move from action-based work to material and process-based work.  I move from the immediacy of the street
to the methodical and meticulous work of lace making; moving from the public and exposed to the very private
and secluded.  I am interested in our physical and emotional internal workings and their manifestations both as
personal autisms and as social currency.  Disciplines such as sculpture, dance, performance, athletics and
crafts act as historical references and frameworks for my investigations.  Just as my work often moves from object, 
to action, to still photograph, to manipulated video, the physical engagement with materials and processes are the 
starting point".



           
            "100% Pure Pussy"


UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

District of Columbia Arts Center -  More Tuff   (best viewed with Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher)
Vanessa Kamp - Eric Symons

Na Yoko Ra Ra -  places and times  (best viewed with Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher)
Mobile Art Van touring throughout the Washington DC area
www.nayokorara.com 



Go to the Washington Post web site to read articles about  Na Yoko Ra Ra

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A836-2003Oct8.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34044-2003Oct2.html

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

    2003  Lady Brain Space Mind Meld, Museum of Contemporary Art D.C., Washington D.C.
    2002  Na Yoko Ra Ra, Washington D.C.
             Faculty Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
             New Talent 4, Signal 66 Gallery, Washington D.C.
             Ladyfest DC, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
    2001  Faculty Exhibition, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD
             Reel Detroit Film Festival, Cranbrook Art Museum
    1999  Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, California


    PERFORMANCES

         2000  Riding the Bulge, solo performance using body movement, sewn object, sound
            1999  Envelopes, street performance using fabric encased bodies, Birmingham, Michigan
                     Pods, street performance/installation with fabric and bodies, Birmingham, Michigan
                     Hawking Art, street performance, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

LECTURES

         2002  Guest Artist, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
         1999  Guest Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California


100% Pure Pussy : The strongest imagery is in
the text.  In the title : 100% Pure Pussy and in
the materials : handspun cat hair.  A glance at
the small furry mound is visually bland; it is an
innocuous blob that is unremarkable.  But add
the title and materials and it becomes a de-
scriptive mother lode.  It confuses and mingles
associations of the feline, woman, the untainted,
and crude sexual slang.  At once the blob is both
alluring and frumpy, it is both dowdy and seduc-
tive, both innocent and experienced.  Without
text the form could only vaguely reference the
mons but with text, what else could it be?  This
is the work of the feral spinster, wielder of virgin
magic, spinning and weaving base materials into
pure GOLD.