MATTRESS FACTORY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: GESTURES 13
An Exhibition of Small Site-Specific Works
July 24, 2009 - January 10, 2010
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Word Salad
Site-specific installation
Mixed Medium: ink, latex paint, spray paint, cut paper, digital print, and ephemera
Word Salad began as a reflection on the interactions of pedestrians in urban settings. I was inspired by the turns and intersections of the gallery stairwell to create an installation that, like a congested urban environment, leads visitors into unexpected encounters and diversions. Buildings pressed on all sides by errant quotation marks and heaps of disjointed type express their surprise as ink bioforms spread and entangle them like shadows in a comic book come to life.
Guest-curated by Katherine Talcott (Independent curator and newly-appointed Administrator for the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Percent for Art Program), the exhibit features artists Stephanie Armbruster, Jeremy Boyle, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Jonny Farringdon, Victoria Hruska & La Toya Frasier, Gary Huck, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Amanda Long, Lindsay O' Leary, Drew Pavelchak, Renee Piechocki, John Riegert, The Urban Gardener: Joan Kimmel & Lynne Weber, Patricia Villalobos Echeverria and Dror Yaron.
July 24, 2009 - January 10, 2010
www.mattress.org
Word Salad
Site-specific installation
Mixed Medium: ink, latex paint, spray paint, cut paper, digital print, and ephemera
Word Salad began as a reflection on the interactions of pedestrians in urban settings. I was inspired by the turns and intersections of the gallery stairwell to create an installation that, like a congested urban environment, leads visitors into unexpected encounters and diversions. Buildings pressed on all sides by errant quotation marks and heaps of disjointed type express their surprise as ink bioforms spread and entangle them like shadows in a comic book come to life.
Guest-curated by Katherine Talcott (Independent curator and newly-appointed Administrator for the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Percent for Art Program), the exhibit features artists Stephanie Armbruster, Jeremy Boyle, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Jonny Farringdon, Victoria Hruska & La Toya Frasier, Gary Huck, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Amanda Long, Lindsay O' Leary, Drew Pavelchak, Renee Piechocki, John Riegert, The Urban Gardener: Joan Kimmel & Lynne Weber, Patricia Villalobos Echeverria and Dror Yaron.
