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31/5/2000

Site-Specific Installations

Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present its annual, end-of-season, site-specific installations series. This year's participating artists are Matt Freedman, Janet Echelman, Linda Herritt, and Howard Gross. Opening receptions will be held at the gallery for Matt Freeman on Thursday June 1, Janet Echelman, Thursday June 8, Linda Herritt, Friday June 16, and Howard Gross, Tuesday June 27, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Matt Freedman's installation is titled WELCOME HOME A MURAL AND (VERY SHORT) WRITING PROJECT. Freedman says that brass bands dot his childhood memories like shiny buttons. "The most persistent brass band in my head however, was the one I imagined waiting to surprise me in front of my house every day as I walked home from school. Besides the band, of course, was everyone I knew, all waiting to welcome me home with songs and cheers and general adulation. The band never appeared, but I always entertained the possibility that a wild celebration in my honor was awaiting me as I made the last turn off of Woodlawn onto 48th Street."

Janet Echelman, artist-in-residence at Harvard University, is known for her epic cross-cultural collaborations with craftsmen in India, Lithuania, and Bali. This time Echelman turns her focus to the American sewing industry and industrial trucking tarp-manufacturers to create GRAVITY'S ANGEL, a site-specific work which flows from the gallery into an airspace hidden from the street. In GRAVITY'S ANGEL, Echelman presses three-dimensionality into planes of fabric which exit the gallery windows to highlight the way that wind, weight, and gravity interact and change a flexible membrane or skin. Echelman's use of materials reminds us of both domestic and industrial uses of the site, recalling associations of the flow of fabric over the body, the patterns of dress-makers, and the rhythm of urban windows hung with laundry lines.

Linda Herritt's NATURAL ACTS is a landscape installation confusing the "Romantic" tradition with sex. The piece postulates body and land as two scales of the same nature. The installation is modeled on the idea of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, a military command center built into the core of a hollowed out mountain, and the highly theatrical "Great Picture" exhibitions organized by nineteenth century Romantic landscape painters of the West. Based on the contour lines from a topographic map of the Rocky Mountains, two peaks dangle from the gallery ceiling, undergoing, at irregular intervals, various geological and meteorological transformations. For a more intimate and individualized experience, each peak contains an interior space accessible by a single viewer.

Howard Gross presents NOTES ON A STRING, a string installation created for the space by the artist. A photo documentation of the installation will be included as well. NOTES ON A STRINGis one of four projects the artist has been developing for twenty-five years. These projects often involve other people as subjects, participants, and observers. In this project, Howard Gross began with a spool of white thread. When friends mentioned that they were travelling to a distant location, he would cut off a piece of string and give it to them to install somewhere that they considered of interest. He would also request that they return a written description of their installation and a photo if possible. In addition, they were also asked to define the particular circumstances of the location. Samples of these are on exhibit at the gallery along with the installation (Using string from the original spool).
Requests for string to be installed can also be left at the gallery and those that interest the artist will be answered.

Matt Freedman, June 1 to 7
Janet Echelman, June 8 to 14
Linda Herritt June 16 to 24
Howard Gross, June 27 to July 1

Gallery hours for the month of June is from Monday through Saturday 11 to 6:00 p.m. For further information, please contact Florence Lynch or Angelina N. Ebreo at 967-7584.

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