The Little Things (Exhibition)
The Little Things was a two-artist exhibition with Neal Breton curated by Morgan Hamilton for The Delaware Contemporary in 2018.
With the exception of Excersices in Sharing (Finger) & (Practice Makes Perfect), all of the pieces included in the exhibition were installed per the curator’s requested direction — having someone else play with your things is an important exercise in and of itself. Gallery visitors were invited to touch the objects I have created.
Thank you, Morgan.
Works included:
Exercises in Sharing (Finger)
Hundreds of thimbles arranged via thrown darts at the height of sensual body parts.
Exercises in Sharing (Practice Makes Perfect)
Ongoing series of rose-tinted cast resin brass mouthpieces equivalent to the number of people I have kissed, arranged at the height of my lips.
Current count: 52.
Exercises in Sharing (Taking Care of the Sharp Parts)
silver-soldered tweezers
Exercises in Sharing (Open & Close)
silver-soldered spoons
Exercises in Sharing (We Hurt Each Other in Small Ways)
silver-soldered throwing knives
Exercises in Sharing (Holding Together)
brass & found hardware
Exercises in Sharing (I am Listening)
ongoing series of altered audio cables; steel cable, found hardware, textiles
You Feel Very, Very Far Away (Cell Phone Towers Disguise the Distance)
Installed on the fourth floor of The Pajama Factory in Williamsport, PA.
Materials:
rotary telephone, long distance extension cable, telephone desk (also known as a gossip bench), variable space.
July 2017
Junk Mouthpieces
Installed in the seven-story grain elevator shaft of the Maxon Mills exhibition space at The Wassaic Project, in Wassaic, NY.
Collaborative installation with Erik Pedersen.
A variety of second-hand brass instruments and cases collected in and around Tallahassee, FL, rope, lumber, hardware, vintage stage light, looping audio of field recordings from the Music Masters basement and samples from Kermit Schafer's All Time Great Bloopers Volume 1 vinyl record (duration 17 min.), screen printed repair tags
Listen to the audio.
May - September 2017
I am Here and You are Distant
Installed in the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts
Materials:
lumber, MDF siding, hardware, one hundred screen printed shingles, two hundred screen printed bricks, silver mylar, tinsel, assorted gift wrap, vintage rotating flood lamp, blue Christmas lights, vintage luggage, crates, cardboard boxes, vintage plastic deer, shattered shatterproof ornaments, assorted trinkets, motion-activated 1973 Lionel Cannonball train set, my mother's collection of twenty heirloom music boxes, audio (made in collaboration with Jordan Smith) composed of music box recordings, electric guitar, and various field recordings, vintage electric fireplace, 1958 Philco Golden Television, 1991 Television, electronics, vase of white lilies created from screen printed duplicates of my mother's death certificate
Viewer-participants were invited to ascend the ladder to peer into the attic. The movement of their torsos entering the attic triggered motion sensors that controlled a 1973 Cannonball train set that encircled the space and audio tracks. A small video camera was hidden amongst the things in the attic and transmitted video to the televisions on the ground floor. The resulting images on the television were a live video feed from the point of view of the things in the attic. When no viewer was in the attic, the image was static — as soon as a viewer entered the attic, the attic was brought to life.
May - June 2015
Heartstring Diagram
Installed in The Working Method Contemporary gallery when it was moved into a renovated library of a middle school.
Materials:
hardware, drywall, lumber, rope, bass drum and pedal, lighting
A rope runs through a series of screw eyes and a pulley and is affixed to a wooden appendage that controls a bass drum pedal. By tugging the hanging rope, the participant-viewer beats a hidden bass drum.
2014
Light Hearted, Heavy Hearts (Previously: A Red Room)
Installed in the back of The Working Method Contemporary when it was still present in Railroad Square in Tallahassee, FL.
January 2013
Materials:
mylar balloons, helium, fishing weights, streamers, table, two chairs, two cups, synthetic flowers, red light bulbs, looping audio.