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Parting Favors - 2007
Parting Favors, 2007. Three-day installation at Arthaus Miami, a White Box NYC group exhibition in Miami Beach, FL.
Parting Favors, 2007. Hand-pinched, raw clay structures roaming through existing architecture.
Parting Favors, 2007. The site was in and outside a borrowed villa, 2 blocks from Lincoln Road.
Parting Favors, 2007. Raw clay grids held action figures and mardi gras beads.
Parting Favors, 2007. Fellow artist Rebeca Gillings, with professors Brian Hively and Judy King, were exceptional hosts - offering raw clay and navigating through Art Basel Miami madness.
Parting Favors, 2007. Action figure, pinched raw clay and wrought iron railing.
Parting Favors, 2007. Pinched raw clay, wrought iron railing. Art fair traffic increased during the week, as did visitor anxiety.
Parting Favors, 2007. Pinched raw clay, wrought iron railing. The fragile forms continued to fracture and change throughout the week.
Parting Favors, 2007. The work traveled onto varnished wood floors.
Parting Favors, 2007. Pinched raw clay grids clustered and lurched through the domestic space.
Parting Favors, 2007. Every mark of the hand was recorded.
Parting Favors, 2007. The work crept around the corner and into the next room.
Parting Favors, 2007. Forms could just barely support their own weight.
Parting Favors, 2007. The process echoes the work of a Victorian lady's hand: focused, rhythmic, repetitive, ultimately debilitating.
Parting Favors, 2007. With parts of the house still under renovation, discarded construction materials were found and consumed by the work.
Parting Favors, 2007. Raw clay grids held plastic miniatures and other things expelled from various personal collections of objects.
Parting Favors, 2007. Through the process of drying and shrinkage, parts of the raw clay scaffolding collapsed.
Parting Favors, 2007. Plastic egg donated by Roy Foo, bisqued hat by Rebeca Gillings.
Parting Favors, 2007. Porcelain stool found in and borrowed from the living room.
Parting Favors, 2007. Pinched raw clay, discarded metal and plastic.
Parting Favors, 2007. Pinched raw clay, dried fruit, action figures, discarded wood.
Parting Favors, 2007. Pinched raw clay, action figures, dental cast.
Parting Favors, 2007. Pinched raw clay, wooden fruit, drowned cellphone, ceramic shell, acrylic toque, plastic alarm clock and discarded wood.
Parting Favors, 2007. Once purged from the collections of their original owners, all objects were finally discarded at the end of the exhibition.
Parting Favors, 2007. Ceramic tile fireplace. Single bulb was the only light source during evening openings.
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