Double X
March 15 - April 19, 2008
MARCH Gallery, New York
View Release: Six Points by Jeffrey K. Miller
(left-to-right): Twice Over (2008), * (2007)
(left-to-right): *(2007), Chroma Blue / Chroma Green (2007), tzzt (2007)
(left-to-right): tzzt (2007), Fighting the Flames (2006)
(left-to-right): Black Death (2006), Fighting the Flames (2006)
Black Death, 2006
Video, 00:02:50
View (15MB .MOV)
Description: A video reenactment of the Black Death that links the then-emergent Renaissance grid with the virtual grids that form the foundations of 3-D rendering space. Situated along this representational axis are hundreds of characters in period dress – all played by the artist.
Fighting the Flames, 2006
Video, 00:06:00
Fighting the Flames takes its title from a popular spectacle of early-20th Century Coney Island, in which a building was daily set ablaze and extinguished by a fleet of firemen.
Chroma Blue / Chroma Green, 2007
Two framed, archival pigment prints
12 x 19 inches each
Description: Two near-identical photographs of 10 Downing Street’s exterior, taken on the day of Gordon Brown’s ascension to British Prime Ministership.
5'2", 2007
Shadow, acrylic on masonite, spotlight
18 x 62 inches
Description: An amusement-park prop of Napoleon, excerpted from Jacques-Louis David’s 1812 painting, Napoleon in His Study, and measuring 5-foot, 2-inches, the believed height of the emperor.
Twice Over, 2008
Tyler Coburn and Benjamin Farnsworth
Digital clock and neon
Dimensions variable
View Documentation (12MB .MOV)
Schedule:
08:00:00pm Open Set / Midnight GMT
12:00:00am Empty Set
12:45:00am End Cycle
Homage to Red, Homage to Blue, Homage to Yellow, 2008
Frames mats, archival pigment prints
11 x 11 inches
10x8.5x11xtuché, 2008
Acrylic plastic, inkjet prints, water
Dimensions variable
