After Party
1708 Gallery, Richmond VA
Spring 2014
The exhibition "After Party" featured several large wheat pasted pieces. The installation took place over three days with the help of students and friends from Virginia Commonwealth University.
For this show I was thinking about the role of monuments and what they tell about us. The back space of the gallery features the two large installations, on the left wall is "Vanishing Landscape". The isometric perspective of the drawings that make up the wheat pasted prints allowed for the construction of a seemingly endless landscape, but one defined not by a horizon line, but by the objects left behind. On the opposite wall the piece "Monument (Rebuilder)" was a heap of cast offs, debris, high and low objects. In setting out the installation of this piece I thought of it as a kind of Stonehenge built by some group of post-apocalyptic survivors, making a monument to their time that said both "we were here" and "we did this to ourselves." This was not the first installation completed with help, but it is the first where the participants played a role in the story, in effective we were those survivors building that monument.
1708 Gallery, Richmond VA
Spring 2014
The exhibition "After Party" featured several large wheat pasted pieces. The installation took place over three days with the help of students and friends from Virginia Commonwealth University.
For this show I was thinking about the role of monuments and what they tell about us. The back space of the gallery features the two large installations, on the left wall is "Vanishing Landscape". The isometric perspective of the drawings that make up the wheat pasted prints allowed for the construction of a seemingly endless landscape, but one defined not by a horizon line, but by the objects left behind. On the opposite wall the piece "Monument (Rebuilder)" was a heap of cast offs, debris, high and low objects. In setting out the installation of this piece I thought of it as a kind of Stonehenge built by some group of post-apocalyptic survivors, making a monument to their time that said both "we were here" and "we did this to ourselves." This was not the first installation completed with help, but it is the first where the participants played a role in the story, in effective we were those survivors building that monument.
Related Drawings
The installations pieces also serve as sites to display smaller drawings and prints. Framed within the larger landscapes of the installations, they become stoping points and ciphers embedded with in the dominating large scale pieces.
The installations pieces also serve as sites to display smaller drawings and prints. Framed within the larger landscapes of the installations, they become stoping points and ciphers embedded with in the dominating large scale pieces.
Deinstallation and Paper Making Workshop
This exhibition marked the very first paper making workshop for the installations. Over the course of a day the exhibition was removed and the scraps pulped using a standard blender. A demonstration was held in the gallery on recycled paper making using basic papermaking tools: moulds and deckles built with wood and window screen, plastic tote bins for vats, and interfacing for felts. The paper was donated to 1708 for use in their programming.
This exhibition marked the very first paper making workshop for the installations. Over the course of a day the exhibition was removed and the scraps pulped using a standard blender. A demonstration was held in the gallery on recycled paper making using basic papermaking tools: moulds and deckles built with wood and window screen, plastic tote bins for vats, and interfacing for felts. The paper was donated to 1708 for use in their programming.
