I have all of the work together for my show coming up at the Hammer Museum.
Here's a preview:This is a detail of an image whose frame is partially filled with dirt and glitter.
This one I took a meat cleaver to.
Since the installation at the Hammer deals with the text of a novella about a deteriorating family relationship , I tried to impose upon these images of an empty room something like a psychological wallpaper. I've been interested in how wallpaper is used to ascribe values to an environment in order to provided a daily reminder of class-specific values. I was trying to do something similar without using a repeating pattern, to give a sense of how the characters in my novella react within their space.
And then there's discomfort within fortunate circumstances:
This one is about 7 feet tall.
The second and third pictures are courtesy of the Hammer Museum and were taken by Brian Forrest.
The first picture comes courtesy of Circus Gallery.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
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