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Images from the Transitory Art Opening:
Background It all started on an ordinary morning in March 2006 in the subway. I gazed into the space around me and was surrounded by the repetetive advertising campaigns, I wondered what people would do if they saw something real on the walls, something tactile, created, hand-touched, and left... and so the idea grew. The more than a hundred paintings are all from the same original canvas, painted in 2003. The painting embodied a monumental entirety, but it also held many moments-- and paintings-- within it. So over one long weekend, I cut over a hundred 4x6" selections, leaving a skeleton of the original piece, still preserved. My greatest hope was that someone would be randomly stopped by a the presence of a painting. I knew that most of the paintings would be lost, trashed, fragments of memory, and this was also part of my intent-- to create something precious and send it out into the world.
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More than a Hundred Paintings left in the Subway, from Solstice to Solstice A year passed between the subway installation and a regathering of what was left. Of the nine people who contacted me, willing to lend back their paintings for an exhibition, four were able to track them down for the December 2007 exhibit. The exhibition, installed in the basement of a church space in Greenpoint was an occasion to regather fragments: painting, words, and memory. The Brooklyn-based group Friend's Academy, performed during the opening.
Feel free to browse images of the installations, from Installation#1, 6/21/06, marking the Summer Solstice...
as installed in the subway...
...to Installation #101, 12/21/06 at 7:22PM, marking the Winter Solstice
as installed in the subway
to see all of the paintings, click here.
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