BIOGRAPHY
In her latest New York exhibition, Jaimie Warren comes across as a force of nature, or at least pop culture, whose work brims with messy promise. [Her photographs] indicate a talent for color and tactility (to say the least) as well as for rough-edged transformation that combines aspects of the work of Cindy Sherman, Sandy Skoglund and Alex Bag while channeling the spirits of Leigh Bowery, Divine and George Grosz.
“Highbrow and Brilliant”, Approval Matrix, New York Magazine, New York, NY
Jaimie Warren is a multidisciplinary artist and Co-Director/Creator of the community arts project and fake public access tv show “Whoop Dee Doo” (est. 2006). Warren is a NYFA Fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts, and has been awarded artist residencies in New York with the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Pioneer Works, BRICworkspace, Abrons AIRspace and Yaddo. Her work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Art in America, artnet, ArtNews, and Artforum, among others. Warren is the recipient of the Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer, and is a featured artist in ART21's documentary series "New York Close Up”.
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About Whoop Dee Doo:
Whoop Dee Doo (est. 2006) is an artist-led project that creates ambitious installations and live performances as collaborations with community groups. Since 2006, Whoop Dee Doo has created over 45 large-scale commissioned projects for organizations including SFMOMA (San Francisco), The Smart Museum (Chicago), Loyal Gallery (Sweden), POP Montreal/DHC-ART (Montreal), The Contemporary (Baltimore), and Knockdown Center (Queens, NY). Whoop Dee Doo has received a Franklin Furnace Grant, an Abrons Arts Center Fellowship, and was a 2016 artist-in-residence at the High Line (NYC).