The Very Thing, 2000
Group Exhibition Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS Canada
Curated by Susan Gibson-Garvey and Robin Metcalfe
Catalogue: The Very Thing
Below: 2 elements, italian marble (white and red) stone
1: 104cm x 49cm x 42cm; stone 2: 92cm x 50cm x 20cm
Red Shields: 3 elements, plaster over wire, pigment;
shield 1: 59” x 6” x 64” (150 x 15 x 163 cm);
shield 2: 61” x 59” x 17” (156 x 150 x 43 cm);
shield 3: 62” x 31” x 33” (157 x 78 x 85 cm)
Below, 1999. The object manifests an idea in material that reflects on a presence in space, a shared encounter. The work consist of two elements that are carved out of white Italian and red Italian marble. The forms remind of stone-like forms or shells, yet they do not define any of them. You have to face them as man-made objects. The larger form indicates a line that is like a water level - divided by color the objects define a change in substance that submerges the smaller form, as well as the viewer's legs, conceptually tying you to the ground with the pieces.
See also: Waterlines / Wasserlinien.
Red Shields, 1999. Three large-scale floor bound sculptures invade the space like animated creatures. They are based on the form of a shell, a sand-dollar, but their shapes are morphed into things that could be animal or mineral. They re-define your encounter by an experience with form as a thing.
see also: Red Shields and Vanessa Paschakarnis: Sculpture and Drawing.
