Hillary Mushkin is a Los Angeles based artist focused on landscape, myth and US national identity. Her works on paper and media art play with the gap between American ideologies of bounty, comfort and security and our increasingly militarized society. It can be humorous and absurd, while tackling serious issues. Her projects have recently been exhibited at the Freud Museum (London), the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), and White Columns (New York).
“With a political aim, Hillary Mushkin creates works that take the form of a waking dream. Mushkin examines how the virtual begins to impinge upon reality by simulating a zone of indeterminacy where all forms of visual input are stripped of status and made indistinguishable from one another. The dissolution of hierarchy between the real and mediated signals entry into a liminal state, and function to question the role technology plays in mediating personal desire. Her viewers are challenged to contemplate where the real ends and media-driven fantasy begins within the framework of contemporary culture.” – Kristina Newhouse, catalog essay, Pomona College Museum of Art