Material (2022)
Initially conceived for the exhibition ‘Small Site Specific Sculptures’ at But, Also Gallery Washington DC, Material (2022) consists of 100 pieces of painted sheet metal – formed and printed re-creations of U.S. dollar bills - scattered across a kitchen table and spilling onto the floor. The bills are dispersed randomly and in groupings that, like Robert Morris’s ‘Scatter Piece’ (1969), form little ‘still lifes’ while also resisting tableau. The materials demonstrate activity along the lines of Richard Serra’s ‘Verb List’ (1968) (to fold, to roll, to crumple…) but are occasionally made to meet more absurdly practical physical demands (one wobbly table leg is propped up by a wad of bills, one or more bills on the tabletop show evidence of ‘bite’ marks). The kitchen table is a site where physical, conceptual and economic realities often converge and just as often end up a big mess, so it seemed an apt location for this piece.
