Sprayed Cement Doors
With this work I wanted to both "concretize" and abstract the portal elements of the inside/outside interface - reconstruct them in a physically neutral environment such as an "art viewing" space. I took found objects and re-presented them in a skin of sprayed cement that helped to separate them from their histories in much the same way (in appearance, at least) as the granular makeup of a photographic print does for a visual image.
School Doors
This work involved identical pairs of doors that had been taken out of functional context, flush mounted on opposing gallery walls and sprayed with cement, the spray overlapping onto the wall itself. The work was done as an installation.
School Doors #2 (shown at right)
Wood, glass & cement / 110x152x4 inches
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles 1980 |
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1-Panel / 1-Lite Door
Sprayed cement on found door
84x24x7 inches / wood & cement
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles 1980 |
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1-Panel / 1-Lite Door & Double-Thick Door
Installation view
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles 1980 |
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4-Door Fan
Wood doors & Sprayed cement / 76x66x66 inches
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles 1980 |
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Depression/Relief
Two pieces, each consisting of adjacent, identical pairs of doors, supported by steel armatures & covered with "skin" of rough textured, sprayed cement. Embedded into the wet cement and bolted throught the doors were angled, cold-rolled steel plates. The pieces leaned upright against the wall. The work was exhibited in 1981. For the next six years the two pieces were set out to weather in the elements. Both were destroyed at the end of 1987.
Depression/Relief #2 (shown at right)
Wood, steel & cement
"Wallworks", University of Southern California 1981 |
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