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CAROLINE TAYLOR AT THE MILL!
Come by the Mill Gallery on Friday from 7-9 to check out the work and MEET THE ARTIST!
Expect refreshments, live music, & fantastic company.
Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Machine, Man vs. Pandora: Age-old Conflicts Dealt With Here:
A while back, I posted on Roxy Paine— a sculptor whose work seems to blur the man-made and natural worlds into one strange hybrid. His installation on the rooftop of the Met this past summer was an abstraction of fallen branches created with stainless steel industrial piping— an “abstraction” which provokes us to consider the relationships between man, nature, and machine. He presents objects of nature as “abstract”, shiny, industrial, so we can’t help but notice the irony: the industrial machine, responsible for so much of our environment’s destruction, now recreates it. While his stainless steel branches remind us of a lightning storm, or those static-electricity globes they used to sell at Radio Shack, the works below— his SCUMAKS— vaguely recall the glowing vegetation on Pandora. They are created with an Auto Sculpture Maker (yes, a machine) which spits out the plastic blobs onto a conveyor belt. Each unique creation retains a certain personality to the effect that it wouldn’t seem inappropriate to give them each a Power Ranger name. ”Zach”, “Billy”, and “Kimberly” (below) were included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and are three examples of the heavily-collected SCUMAKS. No 3D glasses required.
For more info on Roxy Paine, click here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/design/24roof.html
or read a book:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=roxy+paine&x=0&y=0
In fifteen words or less, Roxy Paine’s wild-wood tangles of stainless steel reconcile the natural and manmade worlds. In theory, it’s a bit like glitzing up your Christmas tree with a lot of tinsel, but Paine’s informing idea is a good one: he takes the roles of “resource” and “product” and reverses them, manufacturing nature from man-made ingredients in an environment where it is intrinsically the opposite.
He has just taken down his rooftop installation from the Met (that’s THE Met) and is putting together a lil something permanent for the Smithsonian. Oh, and he’s brainstorming for an exhibition at the Mill Gallery…
(Although he made us promise that if he brings his trees to the Mill, we won’t turn them into lumber…)
Caroline Taylor— a young artist from NYC. She’s kind of a minimalist’s answer to Italian Futurism (perhaps Mondrian and Boccioni’s lovechild?) Hope to see her on the Mill Gallery walls this spring.
Cool remix of Alice in Wonderland— this guy has taken only sounds and images from the movie to create a pretty dancey montage. There’s more on youtube, including an awesome mix of Sword and the Stone. Imagine this projected on the wall of a euro disco…
