LAYER UPON LAYER:




connection



collaborations



unexpected collaboration



participatory



reluctant participant







planned obsolescence





The first participation/installation that I did was in May 1983 at the FutureWorld Expo in Los Angeles. (This was also my first public art exhibit. And I failed to send out press releases. And I didn't document it either. I just wanted to do it.) There was a lunch I had to miss. My husband was a partner at Jones Day and one of the wives asked me why, "I was just painting." I wasn't I was asking you to do something and think about it. I had a booth. It was about future art. I called it "art in the future." It was free. Anyone could participate. I installed a 3 panel screen. The frames were wrapped in canvas. People could work on both sides. It was blank. I had markers, spray paint, pastel, and acrylic paint. The first person to make a mark was an architect. The more marks the more that were made--drawings, signatures, works. I would mask off places and paint some blank. Near the end of the third day I removed what I had masked off.







already there



found objects



found sounds



situations







Mostly I talked to people about art. My second cousin--Ellen--came by with her son. I had not told her I would be there. She was about 8 years older. Years before when I was very young, I though she looked a lot like Jane Fonda. She was very pretty. Several years later she killed herself. Why. No answer. She never seemed unhappy, but she took a handgun and went into a closet in her house and shot herself. Her mother is now died. Her father died years before.







Did Buckminster Fuller wander by and make his mark? Maybe. He did wander by. Does it make any difference. The project does not exist anymore. I destroyed it in the 90s. I did not take any photographs. I don't have any of Ellen either. Now that's sad.







relations









experimental spaces





exploring





expected? how?









unplanned collaborations and connections





different media







the performative exchange across visual, verbal and experiential disciplines









institutions



situations





behavior







ephemeral





unexpected collaborations















questioning boundaries...







ignoring boundaries















modes of critical writing that challenge conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity and the boundaries between the rational and subjective







exploring performative exchange across visual, verbal and experiential disciplines.



















exchange



medium of exchange







I'm I still playing by myself? I'm I creating places and spaces in hopes that someone will want to play with me?







Is the best art the most expensive?







Is it art? Not the right question. Do it. It is! And try not sound like a commercial.













art + artist= artist + art



play, think, create, produce, rework, think, react...question, play.









interactive





popular?



index







markets







FREE











Labels. re-label. No labels









high and low









The moon is moving away.







technology is not science















humor



Pluto is now a dwarf planet, but still a dog.









Networks





Our nearest galaxy is racing towards us.







Are we racing towards something, anything?





What is a pin? What does it do? What can it do?







Critical writing that challenges conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity and the boundaries between the rational and subjective.









Traditional and Experimental. Mixed and transformed. Crossing boundaries. Making Connections. Curiosity and humor about the world as Looking out and looking inward.









Cross media, interactive and multimedia--video, photography, painting, prints, artist's books, site specific installation, performance.







Work is not driven by sales or exhibitions, but investigations and interest.









concepts...do not have to be lifeless









emotions can express concepts





BUT...and...











Art is play.







Will you play with me?











Do you want to play?







Networks are explored. The ordinary is examined and presented in different different contexts. Roles are reversed. Roles are mixed.













Objects found. Looked at differently.









The art and poetry projects cross lines and boundaries. They do not fall into nice neat categories. Projects are ephemeral and about connections. Different types of connection. In 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbirds I connect the black balloons. They are cells. THEY ARE PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE. They structures that are created would last for more than a year! But they are popped and tossed. They are time based. The time frame was set by the institutions that allowed me the space.



These individual units are connected and re-connected into temporary shapes. Time and place always vary. Every installation is site specific.















Washing lines out of paper.













Offerings is an Altar to Connectedness.









The limo is womb-like.

The limo is free.

The limo is a white box.



The limo is intimate.



The limo is experimental. Limo is power. Limo is celebrity. Limo is money. Limo is American. Limo is elegant. Limo is tacky.







Private and public.







Fragments that take on new meanings. Deliberate re-ordering. And chance re-orders them.







Artifacts. Remnants and remains. Ghosts. artifacts.





Mixing the subjective and the objective.













Looking for space. Looking, Creating space. Experimenting with space, place and time.









mass media







hegemony







stars







fundamental disequilibriums examined





alternative art







Artist, art historian, behavioral scientist and economist