Ed Osborn is an American sound artist and visual artist.
Life
Osborn was born in 1964 in
Helsinki
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, Finland.
He received a
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
degree from
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...
in 1987,
where he studied with
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Mi ...
,
and a
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.)
is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
degree from
Mills College
Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was ...
in 1993.
Osborn lives in
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...
and is an associate professor of art at
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
.
Work
Osborn is known for his installations
that integrate sculpture and sound.
Osborn has also worked with video as an art form,
and done sound performances. His installation works use objects as diverse as train sets,
rubber tubing,
wind-up music boxes
and fans to create a visual and sound environment.
His works for the gallery often have a strong conceptual aspect; in ''Audio Recordings of Great Works of Art'' Osborn made recordings of the space surrounding famous works of art, then played back only these sounds in an exhibition.
Osborn was a 2000 Artist-in-Residence at the
McColl Center for Art + Innovation.
Winter/Spring 2000: Artists-In-Residence
McColl Center
See also
* Sound art
* Installation art
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...
References
American sound artists
Brown University faculty
Living people
1964 births
American installation artists
Wesleyan University alumni
Mills College alumni
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