2007 November

This exhibition will include tent-like installations using materials such as paint on wallpaper, sheetrock and newspaper. While wallpaper is generally a decorative surface expressing taste, in the case of these pieces, the walls are missing. The paper replaces the architecture and defines the boundaries. Also on view will be related collage drawings.

Of the work in this show, the artist writes:

“Lately I have been using wallpaper to build structures. I am interested in combining the cultural references that the wallpaper has with unexpected elements such as found notes, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. which alter its meaning. The wallpaper pieces come from a group of paintings I call “Tent Paintings.” The “Tent Paintings” are on folded sheetrock panels that are suggestive of makeshift shelters. The wallpaper seems like an extension of these folded architectural forms, unstuck and free form.

Besides the formal qualities of the wallpaper, I am interested in suggesting a mutable delineation between being inside and outside. This shift brings a subtle change in vantage point that has the potential to radically alter one’s physical and philosophical perspective. Blurring the distinction between fiction and fact is an act of equality.”