Purple Diary
[June 28 2010]
Alex Gartenfeld’s new apartment gallery
Alex Gartenfeld’s new apartment gallery
Joe Kay and Grayson Revoir at Over Before It Started, the first show at West Street Gallery, a project space curated by Matt Moravec and me in my new apartment. We invited Grayson Revoir, Kon Trubkovich, and Daniel Turner to present works that deal with a newly inhabited space. Daniel Turner worked as a guard at the New Museum, where he was prohibited from leaning against the wall because of the marks his body would make on the clean wall. From there he began making cloud-like site-specific wall drawings using materials like the dirt on his shoe. Grayson Revoir designs structures in the mode of outdoor furniture that is treated until it assumes human qualities. The piece he contributed uses metal hardware to simultaneously puncture and decorate it, rendering it useless. With four pencil charcoal drawings, Kon Trubkovich re-makes video stills from his visit to an abandoned prison whose surveillance methods preceded closed-circuit cameras. The drawings are scattered about the gallery space to create the effect of perambulating a cell. Text Alex Gartenfeld and Photo Sam Falls
