"MountainMuseum" Studio, New York City 2008-Present
What started as tracking lessons in order to see the landscape differently has resulted in a series of art installations that stage an unlikely encounter between pre-Enlightenment Cabinets of Curiosity, Goethe’s writings on morphology, Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau, and the dazzle paint and anti-range finding camouflage schemes of World Wars I and II (so-called ‘dazzle painting’.) Mountain Museum is an installation in my studio in New York City covering seven walls. Complex figure-ground relationships continually change supporting a symbolic ecology indoors that mimics the constant movement outdoors.
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P1020729 "Mountain Museum", Installation Detail, Variable Sizes, Ceiling is 9.5 feet high, Archival Digital Photography, Acrylic Paint, 2008-9, NY
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1020785, Detail, "Slight Disturbances" Installation, Variable Sizes, Ceiling is 9.5 feet high, Archival Digital Photography, Acrylic Paint, 2008-9, NY
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1020793 "Mountain Museum", Installation Detail, Variable Sizes, Ceiling is 9.5 feet high, Archival Digital Photography, Acrylic Paint, 2008-9, NY
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1020931, Detail, "Slight Disturbances" Installation, Variable Sizes, Ceiling is 9.5 feet high, Archival Digital Photography, Acrylic Paint, 2008-9, NY
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1020911"Mountain Museum", Installation Detail, Variable Sizes, Ceiling is 9.5 feet high, Archival Digital Photography, Acrylic Paint, 2008-9, NY
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