Artist talk: October 7, 5 pm PT at Blue Sky | REGISTER

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Noelle Mason is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is about the subtle seductiveness of power facilitated by systems of visual and institutional control. X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility is a body of work about the phenomenological effects of vision technologies on the perception of undocumented immigrants. The images used in this series were collected from the Border Patrol and border-watching vigilante websites. This project remediates images made by machine vision technologies that are used to patrol international borders into the 19th century processes of cyanotype and wet-plate collodion, as well as hand woven tapestries and embroideries.

Noelle Mason (American, b. 1977) has shown nationally and internationally including the National Museum of Mexican Art, Orlando Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.  They are the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant, Jerome fellowship, Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant, the Florida Prize for Contemporary Art and the Southern Prize. They hold a BA in both theatre and fine arts from the University of California, Irvine and received their MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Noelle currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Art at the University of South Florida and is the Founding Director and Curator of Parallelogram Gallery in Tampa, FL.