For a Limited Time Only — Recap
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
You thought that you were alone but I caught your bullet just in time (detail), 2009, paper, graphite, phosphorescent paint, dimensions variable, installed at The Art Center Highland Park
For a Limited Time Only opened on Friday to a huge crowd at The Art Center. It was a lively event and we’re grateful to everyone who came to check out the show. Kathryn Born has written a great piece about the exhibit for ArtSlant, “Art Is Not Eternal.” You’ll see work from the other artists in the show on that site; they were a dream to work with, and it’s also time for another shout out to our curator Olga Stefan for bringing us all together.
My piece evolved to include a wall installation on the outside of the enclosure, signaling its contents to viewers. This came up following a suggestion from the gallery director and really improved the way the work sat in the space; without the wall piece the enclosure, a light-controlled gallery-within-a-gallery, had the potential to look deceptively like a sort of un-enterable boxy sculpture. It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these wall pieces; in this one the various parts are all balanced on pins or on one another, with no adhesive and no pins actually tacking them down. Here’s an image:
You thought that you were alone but I caught your bullet just in time (exterior view), 2009, paper, graphite, phosphorescent paint, dimensions variable, installed at The Art Center Highland Park
Now that the work is in place I’m going through photos of the project and moving on to make a few drawings (on flat, rectangular paper — no bone shapes) in the vein of the Becoming Formless project (think: maggots). That animation is on its way to a few upcoming shows in New York and New Jersey — updates soon!
