First day of classes at KU today. I’m terribly excited to begin teaching my Installation Art class. Our first project is going to be about scale – everything from theoretical issues of size + scale to the practical skills of learning to use scale models. In honor of this first day, I’d like to share one of my favorite artists with everyone.

Her name is Katrin Sigurdardottir. She hails from Iceland and works in sculptural installations. Enjoy!

The Year of the Rope, 1

Not exactly sure what the name of the diptych is going to be yet, but this is the name of the original performance on which it’s based. The process requires that we number and individually paint each of 10800 squares drawn on a 30 x 40 canvas. It’s somewhat tedious work, but enjoyable at the same time. I’ve always enjoyed numbers…

Click here to see the digital sketch of the painting.

And this one will take a long time.

A diptych, this painting touches on a lot of aspects of our work, including both the history of performance and its live element, The Cover Artists, factory work + labor, and the relationship between digital and analog.

I hope to post various iterations as the paintings progress, but for now, here is the digital sketch of the LHS canvas. Both canvases measure 30 X 40 inches and are each comprised of 10,800 1/3 inch squares that will be individually painted.

Yesterday, 26 years after the idea was conceived, Denver’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) gave final approval to the artists’ original vision…

Part of the FaCe Book project: 100 friends, Line01.jpg

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