Informances are participatory artworks, or happenings. During the Informance participants explore their sense of proprioception by using their bodies to construct geometric shapes from soft, stretchy, colorful bands. The activities fuse together ideas of conceptual art, therapeutics, and play through a set of guided experiences. Participants choose from a loose set of instructions to explore tactile and visual experiences, while considering their interior thoughts and feelings. The experimental exercises are fun and relaxing and help build connections between participants. Cunningham’s Informances are inspired by Francine Shapiro’s ground breaking trauma therapies of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Fluxus Art and the Brazilian Neo–concrete artists of the 1950s and ’60s who rejected pure forms of geometric abstraction for more sensorial methods of art making.
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- The Potential of a Point, The Direction of a Line, The Clarity of Angles" Artist text, The Iris, Behind the Scenes at the Getty, Jan 8, 2018
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Sarah Rea, "Shady rest and the Getty?", The Sheet Newspaper, pg 11-12, Oct 28, 2017
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Osberg Annabelle, "Alternate Empires, Science Inspires 3 Women Sculptors", Artillery Magazine, Feb 23, 2016
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Krysten Cunningham: Pomona College Museum of Art, Project series 47 (catalog pdf) November, 2013
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Lord, Benjamin: Krysten Cunningham, for City of Los Angeles Award Exhibtion (catalog excerpt pdf) May, 2013
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X, Y, Z, The Geometric Impulse in Abstract Art, Torrance Art Museum (catalog) September, 2012
- Jon Wood and Krysten Cunningham, (Interview) 'New Territories in the Round' The Journal of Modern Craft, Vol 3. Issue 3. November, 2010.
- Conversation between Claire Barclay and Krysten Cunningham, Undone, Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture (Catalog) Henry Moore Foundation , Leeds, UK October, 2010
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Miles, Christopher. Critics Choices 'Krysten Cunningham at Thomas Solomon Gallery', LA Weekly, September 10, 2010
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O'Reilly, Sally. Krysten Cunningham at Ritter Zamet, Time Out London, April 8, 2010
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The New Yorker, Blurb, Krysten Cunningham at Dispatch, December 7, 2009
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Rosenberg, Karen. Krysten Cunningham 'Tangental' at Dispatch, New York Times, November 27, 2009 p35.
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Miles, Christopher. 'Bitch is the New Black' at Honor Fraser, LA Weekly, August 27, 2009 (illustrated)
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Taubman, Lara. Endless Summer, Artnet.com, August 7, 2009 (illustrated)
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Miles, Christopher. Krysten Cunningham at Tom Solomon Gallery, Art Forum, March 2009
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Miles, Christopher. Best in Show 2008, LA Weekly, December 18, 2008
- Pagel, David. Sculptures with a Grunge Formalism, Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2008

Krysten Cunningham is a visual artist who lives and
works in Los Angeles, CA. She has exhibited widely both
nationally and abroad. Her first public art commission
is on view in the new Delta terminal at LAX through May 1, 2024. Recently
her work was featured in "3D: Double Vision" at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art and has been exhibited at the Getty Center central
gardens, Los Angeles, CA; the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College,
Claremont, CA; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Boulder Museum of
Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO; and the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK among
others. She organizes occasional projects in collaboration with other artists
at HOUSEHOLD in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Image: Whitney Hubbs
Image: Whitney Hubbs