Ward Shelley/Lee Boroson
dal 9/1/2004 al 7/2/2004
Segnalato da
9/1/2004
Ward Shelley/Lee Boroson
Pierogi 2000, New York
Shelley: we have mice. His daily activity will be to make and add pieces to the exhibition from within the wall hollows and continue to improve his living conditions. On view in the gallery will be a multiple-channel video, a growing flat file of work made during the show, and episodes of sculptural interventions from within the walls. Other 'mouse droppings' will appear around the neighborhood. Boroson's two projects look at objects that can be seen as direct signifiers for the actions upon them. In the star project, the artist has taken images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (a photographic map of the universe) and removed all of the 'space', leaving the objects to float in a true void
Gallery 1:
Ward Shelley, we have mice
Prosperity and development have made things harder for Williamsburg's hand-to-mouth residents. In need of a new, reliable strategy for survival, Ward Shelley has chosen the mouse for his mentor: Shelley will live inside the walls of Pierogi Gallery for the length of this exhibition.
Using the mouse as a model, he will become an unseen full-time resident of the gallery architecture, working, sleeping, and eating inside the walls; in effect saying, ''I'm here but, I won't eat much.'' The artist will be visible on video camera but will evade direct contact with the gallery staff and the public, only coming out for occasional nocturnal expeditions to forage for food, materials, and mating opportunities. In order to ease his financial burdens, Shelley will sublet his studio.
His daily activity will be to make and add pieces to the exhibition from within the wall hollows and continue to improve his living conditions. On view in the gallery will be a multiple-channel video, a growing flat file of work made during the show, and episodes of sculptural interventions from within the walls. Other ''mouse droppings'' will appear around the neighborhood.
Ward Shelley lives and works as an artist in Brooklyn, New York. He specializes in large projects that freely mix sculpture and performance. Utilizing eclectic influences and a variety of media, Shelley's installations defy classification. Over the last five years, Shelley has concentrated on bizarre, functioning architectural pieces in which he lives and works during the exhibition which is monitored with live surveillance video equipment.
Among works from the last five years familiar to New Yorkers are the interactive video-environment ''the Cube'', the Mir 2 Project, and the Voyage Platform. Shelley also works with the collaborative artist group BBS.
On view in gallery 2:
Lee Boroson
Contrails and clusters
My interest is to isolate individual guidelines of perception. In this body of work, I examine how we define an object and how through the object we can understand its original context. What are the forces that act on a body? To what extent can a presence exist without the space around it? (Boroson, 2003)
Boroson's two projects look at objects that can be seen as direct signifiers for the actions upon them. In the star project, Boroson has taken images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (a photographic map of the universe) and removed all of the ''space,'' leaving the objects to float in a true void. He's then allowed the stars, galaxies, asteroids, etc. to re-cluster in the middle of each image. In his recent installations of clouds, constructed of thousands of hollow glass spheres, the forms that are shaped by atmospheric and meteorological conditions crystallize, as if time has slowed down, into a form that resembles bubbles about to pop. These works are based on his study of the space in-between actions, individuals and events. Boroson is interested in the non-event, the non-thing, from boundary to boundary.
Image: Ward Shelley
Opening, saturday, 10 january, 7-9 pm
Pierogi 2000
177 North 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211