2007 Dis/Integration

Dis/integration
curated by Twylene Moyer
April 10 – September 22, 2007

opening reception: Friday, April 13 

Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22201
(703) 248-6800

www.arlingtonartscenter.org

I am participating an outdoor sculpture exhibition, Disintegration, located at Arlington Arts Center, curated by Twylene Moyer, managing editor of Sculpture magazine. I am pleased to be exhibiting along with Cory Wagner and Michele Kong, as well as the Spring Solo exhibitions indoors at AAC .

I’m working on a site-specific dirt drawing/painting that will evolve and disintegrate over the 6-month course of the exhibition.  Here’s a little blurb about my project….

Dis/Integration
an evolving dirt drawing installation

This work makes use of area clays, dug from different sites and transported to Arlington where they will become integrated with the ground here and with each other.  The red is from Mt. Rainier, MD;  the gold is from Hyattsville, MD;  the white is from Stancills Mine in Perryville, MD.  The purple and raspberry clays are from the Ft. Lincoln neighborhood in Northeast Washington, DC.

As the large chunks weather, clay washes down from the pedestals into the drawing below.  A slight grade coaxes everything down hill.  Metal bands separate colors and direct flow.  This piece is an amplified, self-conscious version of what occurs naturally at construction sites or anywhere clay is unearthed.  The different colors of clay run together on the ground, drying, cracking and re-hydrating with the changes in weather, creating a drawing that will evolve over the course of the exhibition.