Banks Violette

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Banks Violette
Born1973
New Gothic Art

Banks Violette (born 1973) is an artist based in Ithaca, New York.[1]

Biography

Violette was born in

School of the Visual Arts in New York earning at BFA in 1998, and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University
in 2000.

Work

I'm interested in a visual language that's over-determined, exhausted, or just over-burdened by meaning. The heavy-handed one-to-one of 'black-equals-wrong' is incredibly interesting to me -- less as something that has a meaning in itself, but more in how those visual codes can somehow become reanimated. That's constant throughout my work. All those images are like zombies -- they're stripped of vitality, yet sometimes they get life back in them ... and. like zombies, usually something goes wrong when they wake up again.

— Banks Violette[2]

Violette's work has shown internationally at galleries and museums including the

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
in Salzburg.

Øystein Aarseth, guitarist of the black metal band Mayhem by Varg Vikernes of the band Burzum.[3]

For Steven Parrino / FTW (Dark Matter), 2006, oil enamel on canvas, 59 x 134 inches (149.86 x 340.36 cm)

In 2006, Violette curated a group show titled, War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You), which included fellow heavy-metal nihilistic artists. The show included a black rhombus painting entitled For Steven Parrino / FTW (Dark Matter) made by Violette, in collaboration with Gardar Eide Einarsson, and dedicated to the influential dead artist Steven Parrino.[4]

Violette continues to make work, frequently using collaboration as a springboard for his new installations. Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) provided the soundtrack for Violette's 2007 double show at Team Gallery and Gladstone Gallery in New York City.[5]

Violette's work has been described, by Francesca Gavin, as

New Gothic Art.[6]

References

  1. ^ "An Artist Returns From the Edge (Published 2017)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-06-16.
  2. ^ Francesca Gavin, "The Art of Fear", Dazed & Confused, volume 2, issue 66, October 2008, p. 157.
  3. ^ Artnet Magazine
  4. ^ War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You), Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York NY, June 29 – September 2, 2006. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  5. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (June 25, 2007). "Renouncing the Dark Arts". New York. Retrieved June 5, 2010.
  6. ^ Francesca Gavin, "The Art of Fear", Dazed & Confused, volume 2, issue 66, October 2008, p. 155.

Further reading

External links
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