venue
A • D • D Gallery
22 Park Place
Hudson, New York 12534
(518) 822-9763

dates
March 26 to April 24, 2005

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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