Gallery (2012)
Single-channel video, stereo.
Digital and digitized photos, archive film, text, animation, sound.
In addition to the work in my 2012 solo show at the South Bend Museum of Art, I was asked to provide a composition for the foyer of the museum's administrative offices, in effect extending the exhibition to another location. I had a number of sketches at hand riffing on Richter, Mondrian, Hockney, and Nauman, and worked these into Gallery, a composition that can play with or without sound. Two of the sketches soon provided material for Ready, Set; Messsenger; and Maquette. As it turns out, Gallery recalls for me my first years at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio. I travelled by train from my home in Hutchinson, Kansas, stopping over in Chicago where I would spend hours at the Art Institute. At the time, I remember thinking that painting and other visual art operated in vocabularies I loved but would never possess. Now I begin to understand that for me music was simply a doorway to all art – I was already in the room.