Working at the intersection of art installation and performance, Claude Wampler engages and experiments with liveness and the art object, concealment and revelation, the performance of the spectator, and the productivity of failure. Using video, painting, photography, lighting, sound, sculpture, costume, and texts (basically any means necessary) to explore the possibilities and the value of grafting performance technique onto visual expression and vice versa, Wampler explores the exact location of the line drawn between the consumption of the live and the consumption of the recorded, the presence and present-absence, the seen, partially-seen, and the unseen and investigates how far an object can go before it becomes an actual performance within itself and more importantly, what part does the audience plays in that judgment. Wampler creates with her work an experience of immediacy/excess in which the viewer leaves with a sense of mystery or magic, forcing them to consider their potential misperception, an exercise that continually freshens and perpetuates the experience of initially viewing the work.

This latest piece is part of a new body of work by Claude Wampler that represents a shift in her art making practice, turning from the reliance on ephmerality of action to materiality. Having worked with almost every media available to an artist, Wampler now utilizes the more classic and rudimentary materials to construct a formal art object. This unique artist, well known for her use of art objects as a ruse to penetrate the less obvious realms of temporality, the abstraction of value and the consumer’s role in the production of worth, has made the bold move to pure sculptural representation to unburden the art of consumption. This is the third in a series of large-scale mixed media sculptures that are suggestive, seductive, violent, visually stunning and meticulously constructed.

For untitled sculpture (LARGE-SCALE PERFECT THICK&DEEPLY GROOVED CORTICALLY FOLDED BRAIN LEASHED BY LONG CURVED SPINE TO IMMENSE&VOLUPTUOUS SPHERICAL HUMAN FEMALE ASS) Wampler collaborated with a group of female Neurobiologists at MIT to accurately render the physical sculpture but to also, more importantly, decipher the delusion of gender and the mythological "Perfect Woman" as a genetically generated reality.