Christy
Gast
Out of
Place
April
5th - May
12th, 2012
Opening
Reception,
April 5th,
2012 6 - 9 PM
Gallery
Diet is
pleased to
present Out
of Place, featuring sculptures by Christy
Gast. This is
the artists
second solo
show with the
gallery.
This new body
of work
investigates
the collision
that occurs
when two
notions
regarding
studio
practice meet:
Virginia
Woolfs A
Room of Ones
Own, which
locates
creation
within a
physical
space, and
Daniel Burens manifesto The
Function of
the Studio,
which frees
the artist
from its
confines. The
resulting
group of
burlap
sculptures,
double-sized
duplications
of a years
worth of
sculptural
assemblage,
reflects on
the artists
studio as the
site of that
collision,
treating the
conceptual and
physical space
of creation as
an
archaeological
site.
The exhibition
title, Out
of Place,
refers to the
notion of
existing
between
polarities:
here and
there, object
and idea,
interior and
exterior,
figure and
abstraction,
past and
present. By
manipulating
burlap,
typically used
as a container
for materials
of potential
(roots, dry
legumes,
soil), Gast
replicates the
folkloric
objects,
wooden planks
and textiles
she used to
create a
series of
assemblages.
The
assemblages,
which she
thought of as
untitled
signifiers,
referred to
places outside
of the studio
where she
gathered the
materials or
formal
suggestions
for the
individual
works: Lake
Okeechobee,
the Salton
Sea,
Teufelsberg.
The burlap
doubled
doubles,
containers for
or skins of
the studio
practice, are
unruly
interlocutors
in the
gallery,
sprawling and
dripping
through the
space. Like
most of her
practice, this
exhibition
works through
notions of
cultural
landscape in
both practical
and romantic
senses, or
political and
art historical
manifestations.
Gast's work
has been
exhibited at
museums and
galleries
internationally,
including
MoMA/P.S.1
Contemporary
Art Center,
Performa,
Artists Space
and Harris
Lieberman
Gallery in New
York; Miami
Art Museum,
the de la Cruz
Collection,
Gallery Diet,
and the Bass
Museum of Art
in Miami; Los
Angeles
Contemporary
Exhibitions
and High
Desert Test
Sites in
California,
The Fabric
Workshop and
Museum in
Philadelphia,
Cabaret
Voltaire in
Zurich and
Centro
Cultural
Matucana 100
in Santiago,
Chile. A
forthcoming
book, Source, will
be published
by [NAME]
Publications
in 2012.
Date:
From 05-Apr-12 (All day) through 12-May-12 (All day)Location:
Gallery Diet Miami, FLContact:
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