«07757001122» reads a string of digits in
white neon hanging on the gallery wall alongside photographs of an Icelandic glacier.
Not exact matches
Though not named, other connections are suggested: to Robert Ryman, in an all -
white painting executed on slices of Wonder Bread; to Eva Hesse's 1966
Hang Up, in a painting from which a loop of stiffened string extends; and to Bruce Nauman's 1967
neon spiral proclaiming «the true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths,» in a canvas called Grandiosity and Depression (1988 - 90) that bears, in snaking letters, a quote from Alice Miller.
It all begins with a
white neon O,
hanging above our heads like the shape the lips make before an exclamation.
Instead of human - machine interactions and a viewing pace hinged on proximity, here the dramatic encounter of two megaphones from opposite side of a
hanging rail gradually approaching each other singing a duet of female and male voices and causing a pile of
neon tubes to flare and extinguish until the two megaphones come to a stand - off midway, exploding into a thundering abstraction and dazzlingly
white light as if the harmony is pixelated into fragments of destruction.
Among the more unexpected choices are shaped canvases by Thomas Downing, a
neon sculpture by Keith Sonnier, a cascading graphite wall hanging by Michelle Stuart, and Rafael Ferrer's striking Neon Corner (1970), consisting of a metal pipe leaning in a corner, with a circular white neon shape at the b
neon sculpture by Keith Sonnier, a cascading graphite wall
hanging by Michelle Stuart, and Rafael Ferrer's striking
Neon Corner (1970), consisting of a metal pipe leaning in a corner, with a circular white neon shape at the b
Neon Corner (1970), consisting of a metal pipe leaning in a corner, with a circular
white neon shape at the b
neon shape at the base.
A
white neon sign of the phone number
hung in the gallery space.
The title referred to then three - year - old Isis, whom she was thinking about while she made the works — fourteen paintings, two black and
white wall drawings,
hanging Plexiglas panels, a video, and a figurative
neon - tube sculpture.
Eight monochrome panels, in varying shades of cloud blue and each trimmed in gold leaf, are
hung beneath a canopy of brilliantly radiating
neon white light.