Phoebe Washburn
dal 16/9/2005 al 22/10/2005
Segnalato da
16/9/2005
Phoebe Washburn
Kantor/ Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles
'It Makes For My Billionaire Status' includes live plants and weeds fastened amongst found scraps of wood and 2x4s. The installation is built using organizational and categorical systems that the artist sets for herself at the beginning of the building process.
It Makes For My Billionaire Status
Kantor / Feuer Gallery is pleased to announce a new
installation by New York-based artist, Phoebe Washburn. The exhibition opens
September 17th and will run through October 22nd, 2005. This will be the
first exhibition in the new gallery. Phoebe Washburn¹s solo exhibition will
run concurrently with her exhibition at the Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA.
'It Makes For My Billionaire Status' is an installation that includes live
plants and weeds fastened amongst found scraps of wood and 2x4s. The
installation is built using organizational and categorical systems that the
artist sets for herself at the beginning of the building process. The
systems develop names, have their own duties, and spawn new systems leading
to a controlled but sprawling fractal of debris.
Washburn's previous installations have been constructed out of large
quantities of a single discarded material, such as cardboard or scrap-wood,
that are then painted on one side with ³mis-tints,² or rejected commercial
house paint. Starting with anything that the architectural system can be
braced onto, her discarded material is built up and produces intricate
worlds. These are detailed with the appearance of tidal waves or cities
built into mountains. As the growing material fills a space, it often
absorbs the debris of its own fabrication or other found elements existing
in the exhibition space.
Washburn lives and works in New York. Born in 1973, Washburn graduated with
a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2002. Past solo exhibitions include
Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, The
Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
Greensboro, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, and Kunsthalle St Gallen
in Switzerland. She has received numerous grants including the Marie Walsh
Studio award in 2002 and the Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 2005. Her
exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, The New
Yorker and The Village Voice.
Opening reception September 17th from 6:00m
Kantor/ Feuer Gallery
7025 Melrose Avenue - Los Angeles