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.