ARTWORK > BENIGN NEGLECT

I work extensively with domestic cast-off material to make painting, collage, and installation-based work that typically deals with the ways that humans appropriate, represent, and assign meaning to other living organisms. At 67 Ludlow, I deployed a collection of vintage planters to point to the strange logic of a tradition that includes displaying plants in handheld vessels which are, themselves, made to look like animals. Rather than communicating anything about authentic nature, these planters--masquerading as animals--begin to demonstrate the ways that objects mediate and condition our preferences and attitudes about ourselves, nature, and the home. Though this particular collection comes to the LES from Central PA, it extends beyond the local to demonstrate the influence that mass-production has with the unique culture of any particular place.

Kitchen Table Ziggurat
vintage planters, plants, oil cloth, furniture, and led lights
8' x 8' x 5'
2016
Kitchen Table Ziggurat
vintage planters, plants, oil cloth, furniture, and led lights
8' x 8' x 5'
2016
Kitchen Table Ziggurat, detail
vintage planters, plants, oil cloth, furniture, and led lights
8' x 8' x 5'
2016
Kitchen Table Ziggurat
vintage planters, plants, oil cloth, furniture, and led lights
8' x 8' x 5'
2016
Chair
altered chair, soil, plants, and led lights
9' x 3' x 3'
2016
Chair, detail
altered chair, soil, plants, and led lights
9' x 3' x 3'
2016
Waterfowl
vintage planters, plants, bookshelf, books, and led lights
7' x 4' x 1'
2016
Planter Painting
wall pocket, soil, plant, and oilcloth on panel
32" x 20.5" x 4"
2016

This work was created for a two-person exhibition of the same title at 67 Ludlow, a literal underground gallery in Manhattan's LES, in collaboration with artist Genevieve Irwin and curator Selina Yunqing Lin in summer 2016.