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  Catherine Yass
Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an English artist.
Yass is noted for her very brightly coloured photographs, a number of which present an image which is a combination of the positive and negative.
In 2000, Yass designed the christmas tree for Tate Britain, and in 2002 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
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  Catherine Yass -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination) artist.
Yass was born in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
Yass is noted for her very brightly coloured (A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material) photographs, a number of which present an image which is a combination of the positive and negative.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/catherine_yass.htm   (341 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Turner profile: Catherine Yass
Catherine Yass, who was born in London, graduated from the capital's Slade School of Art in 1986, and completed an MA at Goldsmiths College in 1990.
Yass has a unique method of combining two identical photographic images, one on positive film, and the other on positive film presented as a negative.
She specialises in exploring the psychology of spaces, and in 1994 worked in a psychiatric hospital in south London to produce a series of eight lightboxes called Corridor, which were eerie representations of institutional space.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2016547.stm   (304 words)

  
 yass - WikiWikiLame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Catherine Yass has addressed the issue of truth in photography and art, instinctively perhaps, by establishing her role as agent among the scientists peculiar panoply of bottles, tubes and samples.
Yass and I look at the nearly finished work together, unfurling rolls of test prints in her studio that measure the scale of the work in units of time.
Catherine Yass has been shortlisted in recognition of her solo exhibition at aspreyjacques, London, and for representing Britain at the 10th Indian Triennial.
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 Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam » English » Press » Pressreleases » Passage by Catherine Yass
Yass is well known for her experiments with photographic techniques, through which she has developed her characteristic use of colour.
Catherine Yass was born in London in 1963.
Yass was nominated in 2002 for the Turner Prize.
www.foam.nl /index.php?pageId=174   (403 words)

  
 Future Cities
Yass was shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize in 2002.
Catherine Yass is known for her luminous photographic lightbox portraits of people and places that not only challenge the science of photography but also explore the relationship with architectural and psychological space.
Yass' camera was lowered slowly by crane down the full length of one of the buildings, from the top floors to ground level.
www.virtualcities.mcmaster.ca /artists/yass.html   (383 words)

  
 Articles - Catherine Yass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an English artist.
Yass is noted for her very brightly coloured photographs, a number of which present an image which is a combination of the positive and negative.
In 2000, Yass designed the christmas tree for Tate Britain, and in 2002 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
www.afinest.com /articles/Catherine_Yass   (229 words)

  
 Stairs by Catherine Yass
Catherine Yass uses a technique that furnishes her work with both effect and a wider metaphor: she physically overlays a positive image with a negative image of the same scene.
In 1998 Yass was commissioned to make a series of photographs of a public building in Belfast, the Waterfront Concert Hall.
The implied catastrophe, though, is never achieved, leaving the image and its negation metaphorically as well as physically in a state of permanent equipoise.
www.godtcleary.com /yassstairs.htm   (169 words)

  
 Catherine Yass - Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England ArtForum - Find Articles
Ostensibly, these are the main subjects, but, in fact, Yass is present in every case and the work taken as a whole, presents, by stages, her increasingly visible form.
Yass is not looking straight out of the picture, yet her off-center gaze is a focused one.
In all this, Yass might be seen to question where power lies and how it shifts and circulates within the web of social relations that conspires to sustain the illusion of meaning.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n5_v31/ai_13929342   (559 words)

  
 db-art.info
Among those nominated are the film and photo artist Catherine Yass, whose works, such as Bankside: Cherrypicker, have been part of the collection of the Deutsche Bank for some time.
Yass, who was nominated for the prize along with Fiona Banner, Liam Gillick, and Keith Tyson, attracted considerable attention this year both with her one-person exhibition at the London gallery aspreyjacques and as the British representative at the 10th Indian Triennial.
The artist, who was born in 1963, studied at Goldsmith College; she became known for her brilliantly colorful photographic light boxes addressing architectural and social themes.
www.deutsche-bank-kunst.de /art/03/e/aktuell-catherineyass.php   (190 words)

  
 Print Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In January 2001, Catherine Yass represented Britain at the 10th Indian Triennale, where she won a prestigious prize for Star, six portraits of famous Indian filmstars and four images of the auditoriums of cinemas in Mumbai.
The work was presented as photographic transparencies mounted in lightboxes and was specially commissioned by the British Council for its first showing at the Triennale, which is a showcase for artists from all over the world and featured 30 artists from foreign countries and 37 from India.
Catherine Yass was born in London in 1963, and studied at the Slade School of Art and Goldsmiths’ College, London.
www.britishcouncil.org /br/print-page?id=110572   (372 words)

  
 DCMS | GAC
Catherine Yass produced "Observatory" and another work, "Pavilion", for the British Embassy in Berlin.
Yass has commented on how this image is like the camera's self-portrait, with one mechanism looking at another.
The heightened, intense colours of her works are produced by superimposing positive and negative transparencies onto one another and making tonal adjustments during the printing process.
www.gac.culture.gov.uk /search/Object.asp?object_key=30397   (100 words)

  
 Galerie Lelong - New York: Catherine Yass: Lock
Yass first became known for her experimentations with photography, creating lightboxes that explore physical and architectural space and how these environments are experienced by their inhabitants.
After moving through the vast and powerful water, the boat is held in a suspended present, within the gates of the lock, as it awaits the close of one end of its journey and the entrance into its next.
Yass has shown in numerous museums and galleries worldwide, including the Tate, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
www.artnet.com /event/108961/catherine-yass-lock.html   (482 words)

  
 indielondon.co.uk - going out - Catherine Yass, Descent
This new body of work continues Catherine Yassðs interest in the psychology of spaces which can be seen in previous series such as Corridors, a PADT commission for Springfield Psychiatric Hospital, currently on show at Tate Modern.
Born in 1963, Catherine Yass graduated from Slade School of Art (1986) and Goldsmiths College (1990) and has exhibited widely on an international level.
Catherine Yass - Works 1994 - 2000, a book published by asprey jacques in 2000, is distributed by Art Data and is also available at the gallery or by clicking the buy this link above.
www.indielondon.co.uk /events/out_catherine_yassdescent.html   (391 words)

  
 Catherine Yass - at Foam - Photography Museum | Art Knowledge News
Yass is well known for her experiments with photographic techniques, through which she has developed her characteristic use of color.
Catherine Yass’s visual images have an astonishing psychological quality.
Catherine Yass’s work is about mental rather than physical space.
www.artknowledgenews.com /node/671   (473 words)

  
 Alison Jacques Gallery London Catherine Yass - Pressrelease
Catherine Yass was born in London (1963) and graduated with an MA from Goldsmiths College (1990).
In 2002, Catherine Yass was nominated for the Turner Prize at Tate Britain.
Catherine Yass is represented in many public collections including The British Council, Tate, and The Jewish Museum, New York.
www.undo.net /cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1100705606   (510 words)

  
 through the looking glass
Catherine Yass's photographs of interiors in a Surrey psychiatric institution cut across a long history of attempts to represent the insane in such buildings.
Yass' images, combining positive and negative in each photograph evoke and further complicate that iconography.
Catherine Yass extends the question to ask how do we determine that 'shared vision' which defines society.
www.francismckee.com /glass.htm   (1446 words)

  
 CAAM. Exhibitions. The black box
This exhibition examines one of the most recent and less studied aspects of Catherine Yass: the production of works of art on film.
Catherine Yass explains that “this is my personal reaction to the wall,...and the way in which the political embargo has materialised”.
The Herzliya Museum of Art in Israel is preparing for the exhibition of her art piece Wall in the summer of 2005.
www.caam.net /en/exposiciones/cajanegra/2005/catherine.htm   (423 words)

  
 The Hindu : Representing an icon
Yass was in New Delhi recently for the premiere of her exhibition "Star" which focussed on Bollywood stars, who, Yass said, fascinated her.
Years later, Yass transferred her impressions of Bollywood to a series of portraits of six stars who represent the larger-than- life image of the icon - Amithabh Bacchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Sunjay Dutt, Karishma Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit and Hema Malini.
Yass attempts to draw analogies between cinematic space, the inner self and mental space.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/02/25/stories/13250788.htm   (601 words)

  
 yass - Ask.com Web Search
Yass is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Yass Valley Shire.
Yass Hakoshima, internationally renowned performer, received his training in mime and dance in Japan and the United States.
Yass can refer to a number of things: Catherine Yass - a painter Yass, New South Wales - a town in Australia Yass Valley Council a local...
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 Channel 4 - The Turner Prize 2002
Like the earlier photo-artist Man Ray, whose famous polarised 'halo' around an image first occurred when a technician opened the darkroom door at the wrong moment, Catherine Yass discovered her signature style by accident.
Her technique in these works presents photography at its most chemical, and colour at its most relative, being created in the mind - as we know it really is - from lightwave frequencies.
Commissioned by the British Council for the recent Indian Triennial, Yass combined her particular vision of empty architectural spaces with the more traditional art of portraiture.
www.channel4.com /culture/microsites/T/turner_2002/nominees/nominees.html   (490 words)

  
 Haber's Art Reviews: Abstract Gallery-Going, Fall 2006
Yass filmed the process in color before transferring it to high-definition video, to combine the warmth of one medium with the clarity of another.
To permit passage, the water level changes, and Yass allows her point of view slowly to rise as well.
Yass does not exactly disrupt the act of contemplation.
www.haberarts.com /gorchov.htm   (2154 words)

  
 DCMS | GAC
Catherine Yass was commissioned to produce this work and "Embassy (day)".
She discovered the creative potential of working in this way simply by chance, when an incorrectly loaded film was developed.
Catherine Yass was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002.
www.gac.culture.gov.uk /search/Object.asp?object_key=11639   (96 words)

  
 Art in Review; Catherine Yass - New York Times
Their monumentality and what they tell us of nature's power and man's ability to harness it are the chief subjects of ''Lock,'' Catherine Yass's imposing two-screen film installation.
Shot from a crane high on a barge during passes through the dam's locks, the facing screens provide a fore and aft view of the journey, perfectly synched.
Yass has added little to the facing-screens convention, except a well-chosen subject.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E5DB1E3EF932A35751C1A9609C8B63   (253 words)

  
 Artpoint: Ackroyd & Harvey Catherine Yass       
The design uses imagery taken from research images in cell fusion studied by the artists during a research period at the School.
Catherine Yass undertook a year-long residency at the School to research a new body of work.
In collaboration with pathologist Dr William James she developed a photographic exploration of molecular shape recognition and explored the use of colour in scientific enquiry.
www.artpointtrust.org.uk /projects/details.asp?projects_id=5   (258 words)

  
 Yass, Catherine. (1 of 9). Oral History of British Photography
If you are a member of a licensed UK higher or further education institution you can use your Athens ID to log in and listen to this recording, or download it to your PC Duration: 12:31:32 AM Collection: Art and design interviews
Catherine Yass (CY) was born in London, Swiss Cottage in 1963.
Talk about earliest memories, birth of brother, nursery school at age 2, description of their first house and what she felt about it.
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 06-125 (Urban Landscapes)
Catherine Yass was born in London, graduated from the Slade School of Art and completed an MA at Goldsmiths College in 1990.
She was short-listed in 2002 for the Turner Prize, organized by Tate London.
In spring 2007, the Jewish Museum in New York is presenting Yass’ film Wall, shot on the Israelie/Palestine border, as part of the group exhibition Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-125.html   (1222 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Yass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Yass, NSW: Residential quality of a country town (Research paper - Ian Buchan Fell Research Project on Housing ; no. 6) by Ross King (Unknown Binding - 1972)
Yass municipal centenary history, by William Alan Bayley (Unknown Binding - 1973)
The geology of the Murrumbidgee district near Yass; (Records of the Geological survey of New South Wales) by Leslie F Harper (Unknown Binding - 1909)
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