User:Peterpaulpaul/Dawn Kasper

Dawn Kasper (born in Fairfax, Virginia 1977) is a Los Angeles based performance artist.

Education and Work
Kasper received a B.F.A in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999 and was accepted into graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles directly after, receiving an M.F.A in New Genres in 2003.

While at UCLA Kasper studied with with Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Catherine Opie, John Baldessari and Jason Rhoades after graduating she was represented by Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles for 3 years. Then picked up by Circus Gallery and had her first solo show in 2007 titled Life and Death.

From 2001 - 2007 Dawn Kasper recreated death scene the project was titled 'The Evil Series" or "Death Scenes" The work was in part, inspired by Weegee's crime scene photography and the B horror film genre.

In 2010 Kasper created Music for Hoarders, originally performed at Honor Fraser Gallery, then recreated in 2012 at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.

In 2012 she created No Person May Carry A Fish Into A Bar, work based on exploring the question, "what is a crime". The exhibit ran from July 14-August 25 at Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Kasper participated in the 2012 Whitney Bienniel with "This Could be Something if I Let It", in which she lived and worked in the gallery space, calling it an "itinerate studio". Each day for the duration of the exhibit (three months), Kasper had studio visits, made work, and interacted with the public, wearing away the difference between public and private, artist and visitor.