Residuals

For nearly six decades Michelle Stuart has made an impact on the contemporary art world. Ranging from earth-works to artist’s books, her investigations – often hinging on the photographic image – consider both the physicality of materials and the cultural and scientific issues not generally included in the vocabulary of art. Thank you to Michelle Stuart for passing along the image of  Niagara Gorge Path Relocated   which she made here in 1975; it can be seen through the lens of the invented appliance by Allen C Topolski (titled Something Good to Have Around ). These Fragments Against Time, 2018 Wall: 130 archival inkjet photographs; Table: laminated wood, metal 88 3/8 x 147 1/2 inch.    Table: 24 x 22 x 96 inches https://www.michellestuartstudio.com/ Here on Slab #10  S omething Good to Have Around,  found objects and materials, 2016 and  A Pedestal Not Unlike Myself   mixed and found materials, 2002

Mary Miss installed Blind Spot on the Artpark grounds in 1976 when she did the Residency here. Miss often employed an architectural vernacular in asserting the remains of a particular place. In Ladder for a Beech Tree  (below) she took “ the visitor outside the new [then current] central complex [and ] into contact with the surrounding landscape of the earlier place" - to some extent, setting precedence for the installation here today. http://marymiss.com/projects/ladder-for-a-beech-tree-2/   Here on Slab #7   Mary's Ladder , found object, 2020 and Tharp , wood and found materials, 1989