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In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four
hills and a cloud.
-Excerpt from Wallace Stevens, Of the Surface of Things
Sometimes the simplest of objects can hold the heaviest of feelings. Many of the works in the exhibition begin with a commonplace object – a tray of ice, a lawnmower, a recliner– that for the artist have become placeholders or markers of trauma. Through the physical act of making, King works through his relationship to these objects by arranging, rebuilding, or modifying them until they express the hard to articulate feelings and memories associated with them. This often takes the form of fully enclosed mechanical systems.
In Ice Tray, one encounters a standard ice tray on a wood table, resting on stacked milk crates, the tray is empty except for a single cube that is perpetually frozen. All alone. The ice tray is a machined-aluminum...More
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In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four
hills and a cloud.
-Excerpt from Wallace Stevens, Of the Surface of Things
Sometimes the simplest of objects can hold the heaviest of feelings. Many of the works in the exhibition begin with a commonplace object – a tray of ice, a lawnmower, a recliner– that for the artist have become placeholders or markers of trauma. Through the physical act of making, King works through his relationship to these objects by arranging, rebuilding, or modifying them until they express the hard to articulate feelings and memories associated with them. This often takes the form of fully enclosed mechanical systems.
In Ice Tray, one encounters a standard ice tray on a wood table, resting on stacked milk crates, the tray is empty except for a single cube that is perpetually frozen. All alone. The ice tray is a machined-aluminum...More
