Richard Wentworth: motes to self Charlotte Poseneske: Early Works Peter Freeman, 140 Grand Street Both shows run through May 31 What's on view: A series of sparse Ab / Ex-looking minimal drawings and paintings from the 1950s and 1960s (Charlotte Poseneske); photographs of fences, grates,
urban detritus made strange pinned up on the walls, and lined up on long work tables (Richard Wentworth)
Not exact matches
Reflecting on Hammons's mid-1970s sculptures
made with grease, bones, hair and rubbish, curator Lowery S. Sims wrote in Art As a Verb (1988): «[He] confronts our commodity - predicated notion of the dear, the beautiful, and transforms our perception of and reception to the humble
detritus of our
urban society.»
Made of components that are ubiquitously Japanese, comprised of the packaging material and other
detritus of
urban Tokyo, they are placed leaning against the walls and columns of the gallery space at varying intervals and heights.
In contrast, the «stone» Caesar starts with is
made in a huge rectangular mold, which he filled with
detritus scavenged from industrial dumps and
urban garbage heaps: PVC pipes, shredded tires, carpet padding, fiberglass insulation, aluminum straps, broken glass and splintered plywood.
Susan Smith's timeless constructions, on view at Junior Projects through February 27, fuse the
detritus of
urban demolition with a Minimalist aesthetic,
making order out of chaos and wittily evoking the Modern masters of De Stjil and later monochromists, such as Robert Ryman and Brice Marden.
Construction and art materials,
urban detritus, domestic items, and even the occasional animal
make their way into New York - based artist Alex Hubbard's dynamic videos.
The image is
made up of «hand painted posters and commercial notices mixing contemporary
urban detritus with the tradition of Chinese calligraphy,» according to the benefit catalogue.
In a constantly shifting flat plane, building and art materials,
urban detritus, and domestic items
make their way into Alex Hubbard's two new videos, EAT YOUR FRIENDS and BOTTOM OF THE TOP, and now on to his paintings too.
It also coincided with Assemblage art - artwork
made out of fragments of «found» objects such as household debris,
urban detritus - indeed any (usually recognizable) materials, large or small.