{"id":4138,"date":"2016-06-27T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T22:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2018-05-25T02:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:05:47","slug":"lily-mcelroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/lily-mcelroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly McElroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1168\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4138-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/lillymcelroy.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/lillymcelroy.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/lillymcelroy.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4140 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6105.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_6105\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6105.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6105.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6105.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6105.jpg?resize=624%2C624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6105.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6105.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/span>Lilly McElroy\u00a0grew up in southern Arizona, surrounded by clich\u00e9 representations of her\u00a0own experiences. There were cowboys riding bulls, coyotes howling on moonlit nights, beautiful sunsets, and vicious brawls. She&#8217;s\u00a0translated those experiences into epic photographs and playfully antagonistic videos. The artistic projects she\u00a0pursues are a reflection of her\u00a0complex relationship with the American West and explores what it means to be an American in a time of diminished expectations. She\u00a0performs for the camera, enacting gestures that reflect a sense of quixotic hopefulness as well as a desire for control over subjects as ungovernable as nature. Her\u00a0performances take a variety of forms and allow her\u00a0to engage with others or insert herself into the landscape. It is though these projects that she\u00a0attempts to develop authentic ties to her\u00a0own experiences, to give the clich\u00e9 new and personal meaning.<\/p>\n<p>The gestures that she\u00a0enacts for the camera are simultaneously loving and cruel; they are an attempt to discuss the frustration inherent in contemporary experience. Initially, these gestures may seem juvenile as they use the language of physical comedy, but they owe as much to Caspar David Freidrich and the Kantian Sublime as they do to Buster Keaton. She\u00a0makes photographs in which she\u00a0confronts the American landscape and foolhardily demands that it become aware of her\u00a0presence. She\u00a0makes videos in which she\u00a0marks her\u00a0territory and attempts to defend it. The photographs and videos she\u00a0produces acknowledge the possibility of failure, that she\u00a0will go unnoticed, and that\u00a0she\u00a0won\u2019t affect any change. However, it is this possibility that keeps things interesting. In these projects, she becomes a sympathetic hero and a stand-in for the viewer. She\u00a0faces the sublime and call its power into question.<\/p>\n<p>Represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickwesterfineart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Wester Fine Art<\/a> and exhibiting at <a href=\"http:\/\/figgeartmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Figge Art Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4141\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4141 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/I_Control_The_Sun_16.jpg?resize=625%2C625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"I_Control_The_Sun_16\" width=\"625\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/I_Control_The_Sun_16.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/I_Control_The_Sun_16.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/I_Control_The_Sun_16.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/I_Control_The_Sun_16.jpg?resize=624%2C624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/I_Control_The_Sun_16.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/I_Control_The_Sun_16.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Control The Sun #16, \u00a02015, 40&#8243; x 40&#8243; Archival Pigment Print,\u00a0Courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4142\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4142 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A_Woman_Runs_-Through_A_Pastoral_-Setting.jpg?resize=625%2C351&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A_Woman_Runs_ Through_A_Pastoral_ Setting\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A_Woman_Runs_-Through_A_Pastoral_-Setting.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A_Woman_Runs_-Through_A_Pastoral_-Setting.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A_Woman_Runs_-Through_A_Pastoral_-Setting.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A_Woman_Runs_-Through_A_Pastoral_-Setting.jpg?resize=624%2C350&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A_Woman_Runs_-Through_A_Pastoral_-Setting.jpg?w=1661&amp;ssl=1 1661w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A_Woman_Runs_-Through_A_Pastoral_-Setting.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Woman Runs Through A Pastoral Setting, 2013, Video, Courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/lillymcelroy.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listLilly McElroy\u00a0grew up in southern Arizona, surrounded by clich\u00e9 representations of her\u00a0own experiences. 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