What is the project about?
This winter I was accepted to do an installation for the American Academy of Arts and Letters. My new piece, Taxonomy 23 forms of encounter (memory, afterimages, histories): Displacement is my largest art installation to date, custom designed for the Academy’s historical building in upper Manhattan. The sculpture is 12 feet high, and is an extremely detailed, mixed media composition that requires months of hard work on the part of a whole team of experienced artists to be completed.The piece is conceived as an extension of the Taxonomy project, a series I have been making for the last decade. In this latest elaboration, T-23 collects, even as it reconstructs, impressions of a space—taking into consideration the building’s architecture, historical roots, shifting spatial perspectives, and photographic / digital reinterpretations — making this ‘taxonomic’ collection tangible through mixed media. The materials used are large photographic papers, transparent fabrics, inks, wood and clay materials, cameras and projectors.
Who we are
I am a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist, and together with my wife, abstract painter, Marilyn Gold, I founded and run a framing business called Handmade Frames. I continually work with talented artists as collaborators and conspirators, giving younger artists an opportunity to do what they are passionate about and to be an integral part of my work. Whether I am employing sculptural, photographic or other mediums, my process rests on the belief that my artwork is an ‘author-less’ creation. I displace the construction and interpretation of my work to the realms of chance, memory, and the shifting relationships between a viewer and the piece. Please help co-construct this project; we invite you to be part of the collaborative fingerprint we leave in the Academy’s long and rich cultural history.
