Towner art center, debut exhibition. These images are from the first floor gallery. Don't have any of the artist's names (sorry), though the title of the show is "Lost Horizons". above: hand driers like the ones typically found in wc's. Speakers mounted above each one turn on when the drier is activated, playing recorded conversations apparently taken from interviews with people on the streets of London. One of these the interview turned into freestyle rapping ( a good way to answer questions).
work for a living turns into work or a living
plexi display holding plaster casts of socks, many of them child-size
Saw this show at Samson Projects when I was last in Boston, now that I'm here again for a few weeks was reminded of it. "The title, Debris of Life and Mind, was taken from a Wallace Stevens poem. I wanted the conversation between painting and sculpture to take a different turn. I had done this earlier by examining the convention of wall-based work and turning the assumptions that we have about the wall into a question: if something is going to exist on the wall, how does this happen? I wanted to reflect more on the work’s physical placement in an architectural setting and how that placement in space determines meaning. I also wanted to play with things that have a certain weight and that cause pressure. The original idea was to make these works freestanding, but I soon realized that the bases would overwhelm the pieces. This led me to take one side of the base, a two-foot square piece of plywood, and use it to prop the piece against the wall. A plywood support and a compressed sphere coated with plaster cloth combine to meet the back of the piece against the wall, creating support that is both functional and sculptural. It’s still a conversation about painting and sculpture, but the conversation is now taking place in an architectural space." (from SP website) It's always pretty amazing to think about how much territory is still open for exploration, just taking, for instance, how the floor meets the wall, -even after Tuttle's, McCracken's, Serra's and innumberable others' forays into the question.
