Lana Z Caplan
Lana Z Caplan is a multimedia artist who has done extensive work with historic photographic processes, video, film and interactive media installations. Her work has been exhibited and screened in solo and group exhibitions in cities around the world in cities such as Beijing, New York, San Francisco, San Juan, Edinburgh, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Boston, Manitoba, New Delphi, Tel Aviv, Valparaiso, and Barcelona.
Caplan’s various technical approaches in her work are unified by her thematic concerns, which revolve exploring the cultural effects of environmental change, challenges and gaps in cross-cultural communication, and the construction and deconstruction of narrative form and the immateriality of the post-internet digital image. Interaction with the audience is often an important component in the completion of the work. She has utilized motion sensors and interactive computer software to control video playback, used sound installations and wallpapered galleries with images to fabricate environments for experiential works.
Caplan’s work is represented in the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Boston Anthenaeum, the William Benton Museum, and Simmons College.
After Adams 2, 2020, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 15x20"> Inquire Training Wheels, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 24x32"> Inquire After Adams, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 24x32"> Inquire Chumash Basket at the Mission Museum, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 24x32"> Inquire After Weston, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 24x32"> Inquire Sphinx Head at the Dunes Center, Guadalupe, CA, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 32x24"> Inquire Hitchhikers, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 24x32"> Inquire Aerial Crawlers, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 24x32"> Inquire Sphinx Torso, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 24x32"> Inquire Aerial Campers, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 10.5x20"> Inquire American Family #2, 2018, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 24x32"> Inquire Shift, 2011, HD video, color, sound, (edition of 3), 48 minutes> Inquire Weeping, 2013, archival inkjet print (edition of 3), 19x13"> Inquire The Loveliest Mountain of China (still), 2014, 3 channel video, 48 minutes (edition of 3)> Inquire The Loveliest Mountain of China (still), 2014, 3 channel video, 48 minutes (edition of 3)> Inquire Red Wishes, 2013, archival inkjet print (edition of 3), 13x19"> Inquire Shangri-La, 2013, archival inkjet print (edition of 3), 13x19"> Inquire Tree-lined, 2013, archival inkjet print (edition of 3), 13x19"> Inquire Welcome to Suzhou, 2006, interactive video installation, 1 minute> Inquire Portrait, 2010, video installation, 3:30 minutes> Inquire play and repeat, 2014, color HD video, 16:9, 3 minutes> Inquire HedonHeathen1, 2013, color HD video, 16:9, 2 minutes> Inquire Site of Public Execution by Burning at the Stake . . ., 2007, sepia toned silver print (edition of 3), 22x21"> Inquire
Lana Z Caplan
Lana Z Caplan is a multimedia artist who has done extensive work with historic photographic processes, video, film and interactive media installations. Her work has been exhibited and screened in solo and group exhibitions in cities around the world in cities such as Beijing, New York, San Francisco, San Juan, Edinburgh, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Boston, Manitoba, New Delphi, Tel Aviv, Valparaiso, and Barcelona.
Caplan’s various technical approaches in her work are unified by her thematic concerns, which revolve exploring the cultural effects of environmental change, challenges and gaps in cross-cultural communication, and the construction and deconstruction of narrative form and the immateriality of the post-internet digital image. Interaction with the audience is often an important component in the completion of the work. She has utilized motion sensors and interactive computer software to control video playback, used sound installations and wallpapered galleries with images to fabricate environments for experiential works.
Caplan’s work is represented in the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Boston Anthenaeum, the William Benton Museum, and Simmons College.