Monuments
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Monuments to Everyman, 2021 Installation View
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Monuments to Everyman, 2021
I embarked on this project to replace the "heroes" we’ve historically been offered, high up on marble columns, with more personalized, idiosyncratic monuments. Each column begins with containers emptied of my meds, supplements, cremes, beverages, mints—from the prosaic to the profound, they mark the passage of time and represent life itself. They’re then topped with either generic figures used for architectural models, or 3-D printed selfies. Finally, plaster fills the containers to overflowing, transforming the everyday into Art, subsuming the personal with the universal, and creating a new kind of Monument to Everyman.
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Monuments to Everyman, 2021 Installation View, Detail
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Monuments to Everyman, 2021 Installation View, Detail
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Monuments to Everyman (Pellegrino, Diet Coke), 2021
Pellegrino - 14 1/2 x 16 x 5 1/2"
Diet Coke - 10 1/2 x 14 x 7" -
Monuments to Everyman (Pellegrino), Detail, 2021
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Monuments to Everyman (Diet Coke), Detail, 2021
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Monument to Everyman (Diet Coke) Along the Schuylkill
Digital collage 2022 -
Monuments to Everyman (Twin Towers), Detail, 2021
9 x 19 x 5 1/2" each -
Monuments to Everyman (Twin Towers), Detail, 2021
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Monuments to Everyman (Twin Towers), Detail, 2021
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Monuments to Everyman (Stateside), 2021
13 1/2 x 19 x 10" -
Monument to Everyman (Twin Tower) at City Hall, 2021
Digital Collage -
Monuments to Everyman (Stateside), Detail 2021
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Monuments to Everyman (Stateside), Detail 2021
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Monuments to Everyman, Installation View 2021
7 x 13 x 7"
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My Nelson's Column, 2021
Mixed media in bell Jar
In 2015 I participated in an artist residency at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. It triggered emotional reflections about my dual Israeli & American identity, and the realization that my parents, born to Jewish, Eastern European emigres in British Palestine, grew up under the influence of the Crown-- high tea and English piano teachers on the one hand, underground resistance and nation-building on the other.
My Nelson’s Column evolved from a subsequent series of work about Empire, monuments, and heroes; Except my column is not made of marble and bronze, but rather from the building blocks of my own life-- vessels that once held pills and cremes, now overflowing with plaster, becoming Art with a capital A, like a Rodin or a Tom Sachs. It is surmounted by a 3-D printed selfie, making light of a mythic narrative while simultaneously trying to find my place in it, both geographically and artistically. -
