SCULPTURES

Wire—Other Side Series

I started the Other Side series shortly after my last solo exhibition at Lennon Weinberg Gallery in May ’07. I had started using steel cable a year before. I think of the cable as both a link and a line. Before that pieces were attached either with webbing or with plastic ties to aluminum pipe. What started as a symbolic link has now become structural as well. I have pared down the sculptural to steel cable, turnbuckles to maintain the tension, and often aluminum pipe. The last element allows me to project into space while maintaining some degree of autonomy. The pieces that don’t have the pipe are more site oriented. But all the Other Side sculptures use spray paint—most specifically—where the wire is attached to the wall.

The spray paint heightens and directs along the wall plane. I am pleased to have heard painters call them paintings, sculptors sculpture; I often think of them as drawings in space. Existing in a middle ground, between two spaces seems somehow accurate to me.

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