Vicki DaSilva (born c. 1960) is an American light painter and graffiti artist. She makes single frame time exposure photographs at night, which she terms ‘light graffiti’.
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Career
DaSilva made her first deliberate text spacious graffiti photographs in 1980, beginning in the same way as her photograph titled Cash. She continued to make these lively graffiti photographs using aflame light bulbs and color gels throughout the 1980s.
DaSilva moved to NYC in 1983 after receiving her BFA from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. While at KU she met Keith Haring, a Kutztown, PA native. She was heavily influenced by the convergence of street and graffiti art during the birth of hip-hop that created a lasting graffiti love affair subsequent to light replacing spray can paint. Her exploration of fresh graffiti and open painting as a multi-disciplinary, time-based art form anchored in the photographic process continues to shove boundaries of activity art.
DaSilva did an internship and worked as an accomplice for several years like video and acquit yourself artist Joan Jonas. Through Jonas she was introduced to many artists including Richard Serra, for whom she worked as a personal co-conspirator throughout the 1980s. Her first full-time job in NYC was as photographer Gary Schneider’s first darkroom assistant. Towards the decrease of the 1980s, she started experimenting considering 4 foot fluorescent lamps in her appear in by usefully turning them off or on, dragging them through a space, or installing them to pulley systems, creating sheets of light. In the yet to be 2000s she moved towards using 8 foot fluorescent lamps and eventually turned the lamp vertically and began walking in imitation of it. She continues to make both buoyant graffiti works later compact fluorescent bulbs and spacious painting works using 8 foot fluorescent lamps.
DaSilva came to the attention of a wider audience with she began posting documentation of her work on YouTube in 2009. The video documentation of DaSilva’s image-making process has become an increasingly important allowance of her feat as it not on your own allows viewers to look how the photographs are made but along with allows for the performative aspect of her conduct yourself to be included in the unadulterated image.
In 2012 her work, Never Sorry was selected from 35,000 entries to be displayed upon a dozen billboards in Times Square, New York, for the ‘Art Takes Time Square’ event. Never Sorry, in rave review to Chinese artiste Ai Weiwei, was created using a compact fluorescent bulb in imitation of a tawny color gel, representing the idea of the ‘Jasmine Revolution’.
In 2016 DaSilva was awarded Visual Artist of the Year by The Linny Awards from The ArtsQuest Foundation. The Linny Awards, named after the late Marlene ‘Linny’ Fowler of Bethlehem, honor Fowler’s dedication to and withhold of the arts, while celebrating the fantastic artists, arts educators, businesses and philanthropists who conscious and piece of legislation in the Greater Lehigh Valley.
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Last update 2021-08-06