Color My World (excerpt), 2015

The video, "Color My World", first appeared in Kaplow's solo exhibition, Near and Far, at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2015. The video was presented on a flat screen monitor hung at child's height on the wall. It was filmed in the Minneapolis IKEA showroom and in the artist’s studio, bringing together trance-like shifting color fields with a frenetic consumer space. (This video has no sound.)

Gravity (excerpt), 2015

This video was presented as part of Kaplow's solo exhibition, Near and Far, at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2015. The video of ink flowing backwards was projected onto the surface of a large table structure that appeared to balance precariously on two legs. Underneath the table, there is a life-sized ink painting of a Chinese Art Deco carpet much like one in the artist’s childhood home. (This video has no sound.)

Close To Home - Pink Subway, 2014

Shot in the subways of Beijing, this video slowly moves from the distancing of blur to the intensity of momentary eye contact between the artist’s camera, the artist, and strangers.

Close To Home - FaceTime, 2014

This video, filmed at the Beijing Apple Store, focuses on an enormous fake iPhone displaying what was then new FaceTime video calling. The implication of intimate human connection is betrayed by the actors’ mannered performances.

Group - A Training Process, 2003

How do we become part of a group, or the bigger world? The process may involve comfort and connection, but it also reveals tensions and distortions. This video examines Whiteness and unconscious learned behaviors. The video was conceived by Kaplow and made in collaboration with members of Body Cartography Dance Company.

Group - A Conversation, 2005

This is an imagined conversation between two positions on either side of a power struggle. Gradually, which voice is whose becomes increasingly hard to determine. This piece asks, How do we talk across lines of power and marginalization?