Spencer Finch, UP, 2000. Installation view
SPENCER FINCH
UP
November 18 - December 23, 2000
For his next show at Postmasters Gallery, Spencer Finch presents new work that deals with everybody's favorite direction Up. Employing a wide variety of materials and techniques "ranging from rhinestones to Tang to falling apples" the work probes some of the great mysteries of the universe: color, light, gravity, time, space, and the odor inside an airborne Airbus 340. Among the works in the exhibition are extremely specific but unconventional representations of the sky over Roswell, New Mexico and of water stains on the ceiling above the artist's bed. This exhibition marks a continuation of Finch's exploration of the gaps between objectivity and subjectivity as well as his fascination with science and its limits. In work that is alternately playful, poetic, and absurd, Finch examines what it means to see and to construct meaning in contemporary life.
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Spencer Finch UP 2000 installation view |
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Spencer Finch Forecast of Jet Stream Over North America (10.5 days ahead) 2000 watercolor on paper 27.5 x 39 inches |
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Spencer Finch The Milky Way 2000 tang on paper series of 12 13 x 18 inches |
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Spencer Finch Sky 2000 rhinestones and acrylic on aluminium panel 48 x 72 inches |
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Spencer Finch Sky (detail) 2000 rhinestones and acrylic on aluminium panel 48 x 72 inches |
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Spencer Finch Water Stain Over My Bed (4 Views) 1994 watercolor on paper series of 4 9 x 12 inches |
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Spencer Finch Smell at 35,000 (somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean 5/18/00) 2000 pastel on paper 15 x 15 inches |
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Spencer Finch Blue (Sky Over Los Alamos, New Mexico, 5/5/00, morning effect) 2000 lamps and bulbs dimensions variable |
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Spencer Finch Ceiling Above Sigmund Freud's Couch (2/21/94 morning effect) 1994 pastel on paper 22 x 30 inches |