reconstruction opening tonight 1900-2200 east/west project Memhardstr. 1,10178 Berlin on AlexanderplatzartistsJonathan Brilliant, Eric Hollender & Ruth Marshall (Dam Stuhltrager/ East Coast, USA) Sean Healy & Joe Thurston (galleryHOMELAND & Elizabeth Leach/ West Coast, USA) Sven Stuckenschmidt (Berlin, Germany)curators leah stuhltrager and paul middendorf
getting pretty close to resolving the form for this one, but i am getting even closer to collapsing for the day.
not only was this the first day where i really started to see the possibility of resolving the form before the opening, but an old friend from high school who is based in berlin came by the gallery and showed us a little bit of the real berlin. the real berlin included dining in a Read more...
judging by the spent latte’s up in this piece it must be the end of day two.the legs in the corner belong to paul middendorf the co-mastermind along with leah stuhltrager behind the east/west project that is hosting this installation.
one of the best things, and most noticably different things for this space is the storefront window. It has been an interesting turn after working inside so many windowless cubes for so long.the gallery also came with this readymade dan flavin installation on the celing which i have begun to integrate into the berlin piece.as Read more...
after traveling 20hours total, the best i could do was sit down a bit while i wove.
it is fall in berlin, which is pretty cool. i am pretty tired, so until the start of official work day one.
in order to maximize the amount of sticks i can fit in my wal mart duffel bags I have been taking them out of the cases and bagging them 1000 at a time in ziploc storage bags
the giant paper bag in the foreground is something else i am playing with for a future non-stir stick Read more...
this is the opening food about 10 minutes into the opening
and here is the same food 30 minutes later. In case you were wondering the menu was, meatballs, eggrolls, seven layer dip, a vegetable plate, brownies and iced tea.
notice the sweet tea on the left is completely drained, while the unsweet tea remains partially drunk,note Read more...
these are a couple of shots i took on the drive in to memphis in the town of brilliant alabama, i definitely need stop back through there if i have time and weather permits on the way back.
I managed to get the merchandise display put together and have already seen a few of the glow Read more...