Index Code:

ART-OAT-UPSON

Orgin:

USA

Field Notes:

Found furniture house fragments and latex impressions replay a lived environment as haunting structure

Defining Moment:

The re created childhood home elements where cabinets mattresses and walls form an unstable architecture of memory

Kaari Upson

(

1970–2021

)

kah-ree up-son

Upson built a world where personal myth becomes spatial — drawings, sculptures, and installations mapping unstable identities.

Her works clarify psyche as built environment.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Kaari Upson’s work, this approach appears where accumulation and repetition generate psychic residue.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Kaari Upson’s work, this approach appears where accumulation and repetition generate psychic residue.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Kaari Upson

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

In Dialogue

Kaari Upson

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue