Beige Negative
Beige Negative
Goodyear Gallery
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
January 20 - February 8, 2018
Beige Negative is a modular installation within the body of work, Arm Armature. This work spirals out from my obsession with support structures - from posing stands used in early portrait photography to hold subjects still for long exposures to museum armatures that display ancient fragments. I make sculptural replicas of armatures that exist in the world; I pose my hands in gestures that mimic my sculptures; I return full circle to make sculptures based on the photos of my arms. This process repeats round and round. As I work with the photos and sculptures like a puzzle or Rubik’s cube, the moving parts engage through a game of call and response. To heighten and highlight my playful approach Beige Negative takes its display inspiration from table games like ping pong and foosball, and board games like chess and checkers. The work is designed to be installed modularly so that the sculptures and photographs can be positioned in various configurations, that shift and change from one installation to the next, or over the course of an exhibition.