Images from Actions for Urban Spaces

Here's some long overdue images from the exhibtion I was just in. I've been really bad about updating...

Action for Urban Spaces at Art in General curated by Nina Horisaki-Christens, including work from John Hawke, Virginia Poundstone, and myself:

Installation view of my work
left: Dead End installation photos and concrete bomb
right: Two Tons of "Take That!" (on wheels) documentary sculpture and video stills

Concrete bomb retrieved from abandoned segment of Smith St, Newburgh, NY, 2006, 2009

This is a new conception of how to display Dead End in a gallery setting. It doesn't seem right to install the bombs indoors as if they've fallen from the sky. Instead, I decided to present the bomb as a sort of archaeological relic, alongside photographs documenting the original outdoor installation.

Vitrine containing wheel fragments crushed beneath two tons of concrete, 2005

Conceptually, this is similar to the concrete bomb on the pedestal. Parts of the original project (in this case the broken wheel fragments) are collected and presented in a gallery space as relics. I've begun to think of them as documentary sculptures.

Unfortunately I don't have any good pictures of John Hawke's or Virginia Poundstone's projects. There are some photos from opening night on Art in General's Flickr photostream.