Ultima
Drama, 2003
Photograph from a performance
29” x 47”
“I am posing (with my back to the viewer) with an elaborate hairdo in front of
a wall sculpture, which is made of hair, titled Left Brain, Right Brain. I created
an imaginary map of thoughts, like the thoughts could travel in the air outside
your head to communicate beauty and horror, and personal drama without a face,
voice or words.”
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Bottom
Lines, 2002
Photograph in Plexiglas
29” x 47”
“This work was part of an installation called Shrine of My Vanity, where I explore my relationship to my body parts and the abstract ideas we have about how we look, vice vs. virtue.”
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Born in Iceland, Arnardottir received an MFA from the School of
Visual Arts in 1996. She currently lives and works in New York
City and has exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe, the
United States and Canada. The American-Scandinavian Society honored
her with a Cultural Award in 2001 and she has received various
grants from the Icelandic Ministry of Culture. She teaches regularly
at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Articles on her work have been
published in Art in America, New York Times Magazine and Another
Magazine. 
