Squares.
Bikes.
Paper Products.
The Cell.
Installation piece, Davis CA 2011
Parts.
Installation piece, Davis CA 2011
I Painted Boredom.
Installation Piece, Davis CA 2011
Mere Objects.
Twelve ceramic boxes, each labeled with a part of a woman’s body. It is a representation of physical presence. Second collection of ceramic boxes. These boxes represent mental presence. With ceramic glaze paint. Photos by Ari Polsky.
The series of photographs were taken to document the performance. It aims to create a narrative about the struggle of being a women in a society obsessed with a very narrow idea of how a woman should appear. Starting with the building of the body and the construction of ideas that have taken hold in the female figures mind. Making her believe that she is, or should be nothing more than the body. But ultimately she destroys this, starting with the ideas harbored in her mind, and then destroying the body itself. It ends with the figure alone with the rubble, contemplating this new found liberation.
The series of photographs were taken to document the performance. It aims to create a narrative about the struggle of being a women in a society obsessed with a very narrow idea of how a woman should appear. Starting with the building of the body and the construction of ideas that have taken hold in the female figures mind. Making her believe that she is, or should be nothing more than the body. But ultimately she destroys this, starting with the ideas harbored in her mind, and then destroying the body itself. It ends with the figure alone with the rubble, contemplating this new found liberation.
Cut Grass Sale
Spring, Davis CA, 2010. After David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale, Winter, Manhattan New York, 1983. Photos taken by Samuel Kass.
In the Winter of 1983 David Hammons did a performance art piece called "Bliz-aard Ball Sale" in downtown Manhattan. Hammons sat among street vendors and sold snowballs, priced according to size, durning a snow storm. Making a statement on capitalism and it's influence on art. The idea that anything becomes a marketable product in the art world.
The artist recreated the performance piece adapted to fit Davis, California in the Spring. She walked over to the Saturday morning farmers market and, sitting about 25 feet away from a large field of grass sold bundles of lawn clippings priced according to size.
In the Winter of 1983 David Hammons did a performance art piece called "Bliz-aard Ball Sale" in downtown Manhattan. Hammons sat among street vendors and sold snowballs, priced according to size, durning a snow storm. Making a statement on capitalism and it's influence on art. The idea that anything becomes a marketable product in the art world.
The artist recreated the performance piece adapted to fit Davis, California in the Spring. She walked over to the Saturday morning farmers market and, sitting about 25 feet away from a large field of grass sold bundles of lawn clippings priced according to size.
