Category Archives: installation

Roxy Paine at the Met

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Roxy Paine is a) an awesome name, and b) a creator of a hell of a museum topper. Maelstorm, pictured above and below, is a steel thing that totally captivated me on this grey day when I made it up to the roof of the Met before it started raining.

It’s quite a tangle, and the silver surface reflects the sky and some of the green of Central Park. For such a large, invase, twisted sculpture, it is remarkable harmonious in its setting. The intertwined limbs sprawling out might seem chaotic, and they did, but in fact they suited the space and setting marvelously. This is the most recent in a series of Dendroid tree-like sculptures. He tries to merge varying sizes of piping together in a replication of natural growth patterns. The repetition of organic patterns in monochramatic and abstract forms reminds me of what I like best in Tara Donovan’s work (like her 2007 wall installation at the Met).

Maelstorm will be up through November 29, 2009, so you still have a chance to see it before it gets taken down. I have to say, it fills the space a hundred times better than previous works that have been up (Jeff Koon’s comes to mind.)

Art Under the Bridge, the Video

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It’s been a while since I made a video, so I was really excited to capture some of the projects at the Art Under the Bridge Festival this past weekend. It was a sunny Fall day, and a lot of people came out to stroll around. There was so much to see and do I’m afraid I don’t give much information about individual projects. You can see a list of all the projects on the Dumbo Arts Center website. There was a lot of creativity and fun in the air, so I hope you get a sense of what it was like in this Ravels in Motion production.

Dumbo Art Festival

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Starting today, the DUMBO Arts Under the Bridge Festival is kicking off in–you guessed it–DUMBO. Artists contribute temporary site specific installations and transform the area. Many artists also open their studios to the public. Normally I would just wander around and see what their is to see, but I’m doing something a little bit more tomorrow afternoon.

I agreed to help lead an art walk. Unlike a place like Chelsea, here we’ll just have to see what there is to see. But that should be a lot of fun. It supposed to be wonderful weather all weekend so, if you feel like some serendipitous artsy wandering, come out.