Mieke Marple

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Mieke Marple
Born1986
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Websitemiekemarple.com

Mieke Marple (born 1986) is an American artist and writer based in Los Angeles, California.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Marple was born in Mountain View, CA, and grew up in Palo Alto in the heart of Silicon Valley. She received a BA in Fine Art from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2008.[2]

Career[edit]

Marple began her artist career as an intern at Blum & Poe and David Zwirner galleries.[2] She worked as an artist assistant for the artist Karl Haendel and partnered with Davida Nemeroff on Night Gallery in 2011.[2] While still at Night Gallery, she participated in art fairs like Frieze New York, Frieze London, Art Basel Hong Kong, and NADA Miami, and worked with artists like Sterling Ruby, Laura Owens, Samara Golden, and Josh Kline, among others.[2]

In 2014, Marple founded "Sexy Beast", a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood LA (PPLA), with Davida Nemeroff.[3][4]

Marple's art often combines new technologies, such as AR and NFTs, with more traditional practices to create emotionally evocative experiences.[5][6] Her artwork has been exhibited at MOCA Westport,[7] the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia,[8] the Seattle NFT Museum[9] and other arts galleries and platforms. Her work has been featured in The New York Times,[10]The Guardian,[11] Autre,[12] Fortune Magazine,[13] White Hot Magazine,[14] Flaunt,[15] and some others.

As a writer, Marple has published articles about arts and other topics with The Huffington Post,[16] Zyzzyva,[17] Lit Hub,[18]ARTnews,[19] Artsy [20] and other media platforms.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Coco Dolle,"Interreality Modalities: A Conversation With Artist Mieke Marple On Bridging The Digital And Traditional Worlds". autre.love. 18 November 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Meet Mieke Marple". voyagela.com. 9 October 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  3. ^ Tanja M. Laden,"Artists Band Together to Protect Women's Healthcare Rights". vice.com. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  4. ^ Tanja M. Laden,"SEXY BEAST: An Inside Look at the Planned Parenthood Benefit". bust.com. 29 September 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Interreality A New Exhbition in LA Entwining the Traditional and Digital". whitehotmagazine.com. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  6. ^ Kristina Stakor,"International Nft Exhibition 'Techno-Healing': How Much Are We Our Bodies And How Much Are Our Avatars?". mood-hr.translate.goog. 27 May 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Élan Vital". mocawestport.org. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Exhibition Outside, at Librairie Métamorphoses". avant-galerie.com. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  9. ^ ""Gen XX" Exhibition". seattlenftmuseum.com. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Art Scene Heats up in Downtown Los Angeles". nytimes.com. 14 February 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Justice (Angela Davis), Art World Tarot, 2018, by Mieke Marple". theguardian.com. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  12. ^ "Interview Of Artist & Curator Mieke Marple On Bridging The Digital & Traditional Worlds Of Art". autre.love. 18 November 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  13. ^ "How female artists are navigating the NFT space". fortune.com. 12 May 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  14. ^ Coco Dolle,"Ahead of NFT.NYC, "Excavating EX Machina" multimedia exhibition imagines the ruins of a post-decadent art and tech world". whitehotmagazine.com. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  15. ^ Annie Bush,"Interreality (In)Tangible Interactions". flaunt.com. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  16. ^ "What It's Like To Be A Young Woman In The Art World – Where Bad Behavior Is An Open Secret". huffpost.com. 13 October 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  17. ^ "The Family Issue". zyzzyva.org. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  18. ^ "Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member: Because Books Matter". lithub.com. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  19. ^ "Op-Ed: The Anna Weyant Media Circus Is a Window Into Art World Sexism and Power". artnews.com. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  20. ^ "How Making Generative Art Changed My Understanding of Self". artsy.net. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2023.