Carlin Wing is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from CalArts in 2008 and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She has been a visiting faculty member in the art departments of Harvard, Vanderbilt, and Watkins College of Art and Design. While teaching at Harvard, she also organized “Bizarre Animals,” the one-night art takeover at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and put up a solo show, Ceilings Where I Sleep: May 2005-May 2010, at Anthony Greaney.
Wing is also a former professional squash player, and has documented this little-known sport over the last few years with a series entitled Hitting Walls. For “Making Dollars”, Wing will exhibit her Glass Court photographs, including a large-scale photograph and a number of deteriorated webgrabs—images that Wing pulled from the internet and scaled so that the size of the court in each image is approximately the size of a regulation squash ball. In these photographs, the courts bear the names and logos of the financial companies sponsoring the matches, and they are also situated in front of political and cultural powerhouses, such as the Field Museum in Chicago, Symphony Hall in Boston, the Great Pyramids in Egypt, and London’s Tower Bridge.
The video above is an excerpt from her 2008 video Building Observations, which documents the construction of a glass court in New York's Grand Central Terminal for the Bear Stearns Tournament of Champions. The event was held in January 2008, while Bear Stearns filed for bankruptcy in March of that year and was soon absorbed by JP Morgan. The 2009 event became the JP Morgan Tournament of Champions.