With Shingles (2011), for
example, Carl Andre's floor - based metal works meet their working - class counterpart, as copper plates are exchanged for patterns of overlapping asphalt roofing tiles; Siding (2011), meanwhile, replaces Donald Judd's shiny metal cubes with the work's namesake — and very plebeian — exterior vinyl wallcovering found on many a tract house; and by simply lifting a marble countertop off the bathroom sink and onto the wall, Counter (2012) proves that even the slightest of gestures, such as a change of orientation and context, can render foreign something
familiar — the
everyday as convincing art object.
«They surround us
everyday in a variety of contexts, and a great
example that we are all very
familiar with is the diurnal cycle, day and night temperature changes.