A lifelong love of drawing and curiousity for looking into the private lives fo strangers has led my explorations of yearbooks & online photo sites.
My performance work centers on contextual audience based installations. Without the participants the work could not exist. There is often an element of emotional catharsis. Be it the unburdening of a secret pain, desire to give love or the gift of a moment of peace, it is this recognition of the connection and commonality of all people that resonates for me. It may be said that the true subject of this work is the human heart and that the time at which the piece is created is only the beginning of it's full existence.
Spoon Popkin received her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and has studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Glasgow School of Art and the Chautauqua Institute for Performing Arts. She has had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Kunstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria. She has had solo exhibitions at Goucher College (Baltimore, MD), the Kunstlerhaus (Salzburg, Austria), RGB Gallery (New York City), The Lee Nagrin Workshop (NY, NY), The Garfield Artworks (Pittsburgh, PA), The Ground Floor Gallery, Fells Point Creative Alliance (Baltimore, MD) and The American Institute of Architects Gallery (Baltimore, MD), and the International Festival of Women in the Arts (Glasgow, Scotland) among others. She has had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Kunstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria and was a finalist for The Bellagio Center. She has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the CityArts Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts.