Meridith Pingree physically tracks human behavior and traffic patterns using quasi-scientific, homespun, reactive sculptures. Using sensors to pick up on people's energy and movement throughout a space, her work exists as amplifications of this subtle energy, creating unconventional, complex portraits of people and spaces. For example: kinetic links of a centipede-like creature respond individually to create a live mutating curve. Robotic, rainbow colored gel pens selectively record human traffic patterns. Personalities captured by subtle head movements are frozen in rapid-prototyped sculptures.

Meridith Pingree is a New York based artist known for her quirky reactive sculptures. She is a graduate of Skowhegan and holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been shown at the Bronx Museum, Smack Mellon, Triple Candie, and James Nicholson Gallery among others. She has upcoming shows at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and a solo show at the gallery at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, the Brooklyn Rail, Vellum Magazine, and numerous art blogs. She was recently nominated for a Rockefeller New Media Fellowship.