DINA KELBERMAN
dinakelberman at gmail
UPCOMING
LiftedWORK
2018
Reflects
Still Life with Irritating Camera Movement and No Title Card
Wave Poem 
This Really Is Water
2017
Circle Poem
Going Poem
Earth Poem
Pool Poem
Worm Poem
Two Poem
Unidentified Assailant
2016
Snow
Annoying Poem
No No No No No
Pipe
Half Full
This time
2015
Fountains ...
Go Outside (info)
Nostalgia
Whatever This Is
November 30, 2015
2014
Nests
Thanks Newsletter
Pink, Blue, Yellow, Black, Green
Red Sun/Blue Sun/Yellow Sun
2013
Colors Movie
Halloween Movie
Dead Man's Guts
Lost Galaxy at Planet Maze
Smoke & Fire (ongoing)
Sleep Video (ongoing)
Cloud Formations (ongoing)
2012
Doors (ongoing)
True Thrush Projection
Blue Clouds
Facebook 2
Try or Let Things Go
2011
I'm Google (ongoing)
Our Findings (ongoing)
Phone Photos (ongoing)
Garfield Halloween Special
Clay
My Trip to New York
My Trip to New York Pt. 2
Plants
Facebook Albums
Me and You
2010
Getting Nailed Down
Untitled (Collage/Painting)
2009
Simpsons Gifs (ongoing)
Untitled Paintings (1-6)
Sometimes
So Many Organs
Shoot Her! A Theatrical
Interpretation of Jurassic Park
2008
Oh
The Thing Itself
Nature
COLLABORATIONS
Bubble Bath (info)BIO -
Dina Kelberman is an artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. She has shown and spoken about her work internationally. Kelberman was recently invited to create original web-based pieces for the New Museum and The Marina Abramovic Institute and was included in the Montréal International Biennial of the Contemporary Image. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Art21 and NPR.
My work is about how everyone and everything is special, and so while
specialness is not special, it is still pretty much the most exciting
thing going. Much of my work comes out of my natural tendency to spend
long hours collecting and organizing imagery from the internet,
television, and other commonplace surroundings of my everyday life. I
like to elevate the familiar and transform brief moments into infinite
stretches of time.
I gravitate towards things that are simple, colorful,
industrial, and mundane. I am interested in using materials that are
easily accessible and familiar to the everyday person – anyone can and
should make things that are perfectly natural to them and yet totally
inexplicable to someone else. Humans are definitely a failure of an
animal, but at least every single one of them is extremely weird.
I like how when things are simple enough they turn into
whatever you were already thinking about but they don’t lose themselves,
it just turns out they were always about that thing. I enjoy exercising
resourcefulness; setting up limitations and then seeing what is possible
within them.
I make work as I am compelled to make it and consider why
later, often resulting in connections I didn’t consciously set out to
realize. In close examination of the simple or the seemingly
insignificant the viewer may bring their own limitless associations.
Sometimes I think intentionality is the opposite of truth but
then again that’s art.