sink, coiled stoneware with glaze •
2019, University of Minnesota Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (NCECA)
sink recalls the horizontal plumbing of Endless Plumb (Plugged), 2014. Instead of the obstructions that closed both end of that artwork, sink renders a double curve – the “punt” or “kick-up” inside a bottle that is just slightly budding toward the continuous surface of a Klein bottle. sink taps into ambiguity, disorder, entropy, & the uncanny like a culvert, after the culverts in some of Robert Gober’s sculptures, though sink turns back on itself inside. sink draws on the “unaccountable cone” of the “cassock” in Moby-Dick. In tension in space, sink bursts from the wall like an extruded architectural feature. sink goes further with its horizontal extension in a tradition, after Eva Hesse & Richard Serra, of defiance of gravity, depiction of flow, & combination of sculpture & painting. sink turns fully round & horizontal the truncated parabola of Ellen Carey’s photographs. sink holds hidden contents, passages, & surfaces that reveal themselves upon bodily movement on the part of the beholder. A single example is exhibited from a series of nine individual artworks. In addition to those already named, Ernest Chaplet, Pierre Soulages, Michel Muraour, Sadashi Inuzuka, & John Utgaard are prominent inspirations.