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This
exhibition was comprised of 30 framed drawings and prints.
I chose to transform the entire gallery for this show, creating
a psychological and physical focus around the largest piece
entitled "a little patch of yellow." The piece, inspired
by a passage from
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, is a four-part
collage under glass. The physical focus was accomplished
by repainting the gallery and placing a bench opposite "a
little patch of yellow" upon which the visitor could contemplate
the isolated signature work. I designed and built the wall/bench
with a nod towards the kind of furniture found in photos
of Mondrian's studio. The wall/bench was crafted as a beautiful
object, but not as something that would draw attention away
from the work; it felt as if it were a natural part of the
environment. The transformed space reflected ideas at work
in the drawings along lines similar to those described by
Gaston Bachelard in his Poetics
of Space. The overall feel of the show was contemporary
and classical at the same time. The results inspired me
to write an article
for Hudson River Art, "Gesture Extension Play: A
Conversation Concerning the Nature of Transformation Through
Art."
Construction
by the artist
Steel fabrication by Tim Shepherd
Photography by Susannah Shepherd
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