Friday, March 20, 2009

Greene Contemporary: Welcome To My World

image courtesy of the Gallery
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Billy Maker, Platform-outpost-level-system, Installation view, right wall, view 1, 2008-2009


Welcome To My World; Group Exhibiton featuring Kevin Cyr, Andrew Junge, Billy Maker, Shawn Pettersen, Jean-Pierre Roy



Worlds great and small invite the imagination to wander through diverse environments and situations. Billy Maker's work immediately drew my attention. Maker's multi-dimensional dioramas made from delicate sticks of wood inserted directly into the wall with small platforms and miniature spots of grass at times no larger than your pinky nail kept my focus. Fragile connecting structures intersecting with the shadows cast were reminiscent of high dive platforms and ancient indigenous cave cities were transformed into a contemporary or future scape. Curiously, one large shadow cast underneath loosely formed a folding gate. Intentional or not, it presented another direction to explore. Though the process of construction is delicate, the structures issue an underlying presence of strength.


Greene Contemporary
9 Clinton Street
New York, NY 10002
T (212) 228.8282
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Th-Su 12 pm - 6 pm
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