All year round
Doylestown, PA
February 16th, 2020
Tag: shadows and light
City of Lights, City of Shadows
Lower Manhattan
January 12th, 2020
Them and Us
Jarvis Rockwell || Figures from the artist’s massive collection 
ERRE’s iconic sculpture Toy-an Horse, a 33-foot wooden Trojan horse first installed at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in 1997, depicted the United States and Mexico as a single creature with two heads facing opposite directions 
Twenty-two years later, the artist was exhibiting the now charred and disembodied heads nestled together, suggesting the ongoing, but damaged, connections between the tow countries that ERRE calls home 
Cassils || Inextinguishable Fire, 2015 || Single-channel video
Fourteen Encapsulated Breaths, 2017 || Hand-blown glass, each unique
ERRE || THEM AND US / ELLOS Y NOSOTROS, 2019 || Aluminum light boxes with coloured lamps 
Just us
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
September 1st, 2019
Windows 10
On a Steel Surface
Richard Serra’s gigantic Torqued Ellipses found their ideal home in this gallery that used to be a railway depot when Dia:Beacon was still a Nabisco box printing factory.
July 15th, 2019
Globes and Antlers
Hunting on a molecular level
The Roundhouse, Beacon N.Y.
July 14th, 2019
The Astronomers Monument @Griffith_Observatory
Astronomers Monument is a product of the great economic depression of the 1930s, when New Deal initiatives created federally-funded work programs to employ skilled workers at a time when they would otherwise remain idle and without income. One of the first of these programs, the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), began in December 1933. Soon thereafter, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Park Commission, PWAP commissioned a sculpture project on the grounds of the new Observatory (which was under construction).
Using a design by local artist Archibald Garner and materials donated by the Womens’ Auxiliary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Garner and five other artists sculpted and cast the concrete monument and figures. Each artist was responsible for sculpting one astronomer; one of the artists, George Stanley, was also the creator of the famous “Oscar” statuette. The other artists involved were Arnold Forester, Djey el Djey, Gordon Newell, Roger Noble Burnham.
The six astronomers featured on the monument are among the most influential and important in history. The six figures represent the Greek astronomer Hipparchus (about 125 B.C.), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Isaac Newton (1642-1727), and John Herschel (1738-1822). Albert Einstein was considered for inclusion, but planers ultimately decided it would be inappropriate to feature someone still alive (the monument was completed in 1934; Einstein died in 1955). [sources: The Living New Deal & Griffith Observatory]
May 10th, 2019
1:28 p.m. shadows
Newseum, Washington, D.C.
March 23rd, 2019
Triangles of Light
Brooklyn Museum
February 16th, 2019
A Blessed Ghost
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
That slid into my soul.
The silly buckets on the deck,
That had so long remained,
I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
And when I awoke, it rained.
My lips were wet, my throat was cold,
My garments all were dank;
Sure I had drunken in my dreams,
And still my body drank.
I moved, and could not feel my limbs:
I was so light—almost
I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost.
– Excerpt from The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner,
a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Listen to the reading by Deborah Warner
September 16th, 2018 – Aboard the Schooner Pioneer
A concrete plan
for mapping Manhattan.
Urban Cartographers @ Midtown Manhattan
February 20th, 2018
The Humble Fabulist 