To Locate Again: to establish or lay out in a new place

Finished installing my installation, To Locate Again: to establish or lay out in a new place, today.  It's a great site to install.  The gallery has full windows on two sides and is visible straight off the elevator.  The elevator is human operated like days long gone by!  The landmark building detail is quite a contrast to my brightly colored forms, which seem to inhabit more than the space as they reflect everywhere through the windows.

The installation responds to a theme that curators Glenn and Deborah Doerring have been highlighting this year:  "Integration =Form + Concept: Context".

Form:  Finestra as museum display case.  The artist redeploys artifact based drawings by relocating elements to other physical contexts.

Concept: Numbers accompanying the elements set an expectation of meaningful classification, which disordering the numbers tends to upend.

Context:  The artist questions our relationship to museum display and to interpretation by containing the viewers who breach the space as well as the redeployed element, challenging us to engage how context and objects integrate into interpretations presented to viewers.

Where/When:  Finestra Art Space, 410 S. Michigan Ave, #516, Chicago, Il.  Open Fri/Sat from 2 to 6 pm.  (to enter the gallery).  Finestra Art Space is in the Fine Arts Building, and the installation can be seen during building hours.   The reception is on Second Fridays at the Fine Arts Building -- August 14, 2009, from 5 to 9 pm.