Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have collaborated together as LigoranoReese for over two decades. LigoranoReese’s body of work is multidisciplinary and includes software art, physical computing, limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations using a range of materials, traditional and digital processes. Since 2006 they’ve been installing “temporary monuments” during historic events. Sculpted entirely from ice, the sculptures disappear and vanish over a period of 16-26 hours. They melted down the word “Democracy” at the Democratic and Republican Conventions and the “Economy” in front of the New York Supreme Court Building at Foley Square in 2008; the “Middle Class” at the conventions in 2012; “The Future” during the People’s Climate March in 2014 and “The American Dream” in Cleveland and Philadelphia in 2016. Their artworks have been widely reported in the New York Times, New York Daily News, The New Yorker, FoxNews, ABCNews, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist among others and been the subject of ban attempts by the Republican National Committee. LigoranoReese’s work can be found in the permanent collections of numerous institutions, including the SFMOMA, The New York Public Library, the Whitney Museum of American Art, 21C and The Getty Institute. LigoranoReese live and work in Brooklyn, New York and have been affiliated with Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco since 2010.
