Ruby Green

For the rest of September i will have this piece in an auction benefiting Ruby Green Contemporary Art Center in Nashville. Several years ago i had a show there and they, not to mention all of Nashville, could not have been nicer. The premise of this benefit show is each artist was sent a clear plexi box and was asked to create work that fit inside. I cut strips of duct tape and applied them to the interior of the box, so that you can see both the silvery side and the sticky side facing you. This is exciting me in thinking about work that is contingent on a specific space. The plexi box is not part of the piece, the tape is the piece, however the form could not exist without the box. It makes me think of the Richard Serra piece where he flung molten metal into a corner, making a site-specific piece that was a solid object but could not be moved. There are lots of things i've been thinking about space (the space around/between art objects) that i will have to write about soon.

piles

SO i have been, in my strive to make free-standing sculpture, making a lot of mound-shaped objects. It seems this simple form is all i can really get a grasp on. Which led me to thinking, you know, sculptures really are just piles, just stacks of things. Obviously that's a preoblematic notion, but hey, it's all i had.


In these first couple i was just cutting the mounds out of foam (the other is a papier mache cut-out), thinking how simple, elegant, or cartoony the shape could be. And i like the idea of a 2-D shape that is maybe a stand-in for an actual pile. Much like a cardboard cut-out of a person. And this acually transitions nicely into the next work i will be doing, which i will talk about soon.


This floor piece is a little promising, not necessarily in itself but for future pieces. I have been meaning to do this for a while. Basically in order to change my idea of (or reliance on?) gravity, i started a piece on the fllor like i would have on the wall. For a while my wall pieces have been droopy, sagging, and in general showing the effect of gravity. I started thinking what if i did that manually, like spreading the materials further and further out laterally, and see what happens when i try to go UP. Well the up didn't happen to much, but i am looking forward to doing more of these. Also kind of funny that the placement of shapes references piling up, but it's running along the floor. That's kind of reminding me of someone...i guess a lot of different artists...