Meridith Pingree

Meridith Pingree, Magic Curtain (2011), at Freight + Volume 7/2011

I'm making a short list of 2011 favorites and top of the list is Meridith's Magic Curtain, but I saw it the day before I went to Istanbul and never posted it, so... HERE IT IS!!


strings of sparkly beads... insanely labor-intensive... together the strings creating a pattern - but a shifting pattern - as the individual 'wipers' slowly rotate, lifting/dropping sections of bike chain, which lift and lower the strings of beads... slo-mo curtain raise and drop, like an ocean swell.


ethereal


Meridith Pingree

... as seen on James Kalm!

Meridith Pingree

Meridith Pingree

Meridith Pingree is included in a show opening THIS THURSDAY 6/23 at F+V.


Meridith Pingree Studio


Meridith Pingree

Her kinetic sculptures are fantastic... this show will include a new one called Magic Curtain.


Meridith Pingree

NOBODY ELSE IS DOING THIS FREAKY STUFF. she is seriously under-the-radar.


Meridith Pingree

Meridith Pingree

Meridith Pingree, Blue Curtain, at Camel Art Space.

A chain along the hall of nine slowly spinning 'wipers'(?) lifting a glistening blue chain up and down, in an out-of-sync jerky looping rythm.


a brain node of the creep chain

NOBODY ELSE IS DOING THIS FREAKY STUFF. the only artists that remotely come to mind are Jon Kessler techy things, but more-so Lee Bontecou... because of a similar attraction/repulsion organic/industrial creep vibe.


spider shadows with lifting and dropping oil blue chain.

VIDEOS


Curator Rod Malin with work by Tom Moody.

Meridith Pingree

Meridith Pingree at NURTUREart... today is LAST day!

Screen patchwork wormhole twisting and distorting space. The buildings look like they are being warped into another dimension.

That green spider she showed last year had a similar odd, mechanical, sinister vibe. Like it!

Meridith Pingree

Meridith Pingree, in Recess, at Crossing Art... closes May 30th.

Meridith's piece is a suspended clicking wriggle machine, activated at each joint by motion sensors... it's like a struggling insect caught in an invisible web, and also the spider. The moves are twisty slow and jerky... it's creepy alive.


Waffle drawing... click it to enlarge. Martha Friedman's show was full of waffles... Eric Gelber has published a review at artcritical.com.

PLUS: Kai Vierstra is in this same show at Crossing Art.