Carolyn Sortor

Carolyn Sortor is an artist, curator, and writer. While her core medium is video, her practice also incorporates other media and strategies including relational projects and curation. She has a B.F.A. purchased from Ben Britt (bill of sale here) and is currently working on an artificial M.F.A.
Her work has been shown at the Dallas Museum of Art and in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Austin, and elsewhere and broadcast on Current TV, and in 2013 she received a Dallas Observer"Mastermind" award.
In 2012 Sortor directed the first Expanded Cinema, a program of 14 new video art works created especially for the 193 x 999-foot LED display wrapping the Omni Dallas Hotel, with audio simulcast on KXT radio. In 2011 she instigated the OccuLibrary, creating aesthetically-informed reincarnations of the libraries destroyed when Occupy camps across the U.S. were evicted, one incarnation being the2012 Co- Re-Creating Spaces exhibition. In The Wedding Project in 2011, she and husband were married and their 150 guest-participants dressed as brides or wore white, forming a human screen onto which one of two videos she created for the event was projected.
Other works have included her mildly notorious Matthew Barney parody/homage, Creamistress 6: "The Centered Polenta," and Grace at Camp Casey, on Cindy Sheehan's protest vigil outside President G.W. Bush's ranch, which aired in a 6-month rotation on Current TV. She also co-curated the first The Program at Conduit Gallery, Dallas, comprising over fifty recent media-based works by over forty internationally-known artists.
Before coming out as an artist, she had a twenty-year career as a transactional lawyer; she has also authored A ShakeFest for Book Clubs, among other writings. Her resume is here, and her main website is c-cyte.com
CHAOS is on view through August 12 - Tuesday through Saturday, 12-5pm
Ro2 Art Downtown - 110 North Akard
Ro2 Art's annual small works show features intimately scaled artwork by over 100 artists.
Her work has been shown at the Dallas Museum of Art and in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Austin, and elsewhere and broadcast on Current TV, and in 2013 she received a Dallas Observer"Mastermind" award.
In 2012 Sortor directed the first Expanded Cinema, a program of 14 new video art works created especially for the 193 x 999-foot LED display wrapping the Omni Dallas Hotel, with audio simulcast on KXT radio. In 2011 she instigated the OccuLibrary, creating aesthetically-informed reincarnations of the libraries destroyed when Occupy camps across the U.S. were evicted, one incarnation being the2012 Co- Re-Creating Spaces exhibition. In The Wedding Project in 2011, she and husband were married and their 150 guest-participants dressed as brides or wore white, forming a human screen onto which one of two videos she created for the event was projected.
Other works have included her mildly notorious Matthew Barney parody/homage, Creamistress 6: "The Centered Polenta," and Grace at Camp Casey, on Cindy Sheehan's protest vigil outside President G.W. Bush's ranch, which aired in a 6-month rotation on Current TV. She also co-curated the first The Program at Conduit Gallery, Dallas, comprising over fifty recent media-based works by over forty internationally-known artists.
Before coming out as an artist, she had a twenty-year career as a transactional lawyer; she has also authored A ShakeFest for Book Clubs, among other writings. Her resume is here, and her main website is c-cyte.com
CHAOS is on view through August 12 - Tuesday through Saturday, 12-5pm
Ro2 Art Downtown - 110 North Akard
Ro2 Art's annual small works show features intimately scaled artwork by over 100 artists.