One week remains to see my work at Pratt Manhattan Gallery as part of the show "Nectar: War Upon the Bees." Through February 11.
https://www.pratt.edu/events/single/?id=52214
Left: Smells Like Money (Hungry Spirits), 2015; Right: Spent Flower, 2015
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One week remains to see my work at Pratt Manhattan Gallery as part of the show "Nectar: War Upon the Bees." Through February 11.
https://www.pratt.edu/events/single/?id=52214
Left: Smells Like Money (Hungry Spirits), 2015; Right: Spent Flower, 2015
Painterly schematic for a timing circuit with dead components and other unintended consequences.
I am pleased to announce that my latest body of work, "Pollination," will open on September 12 at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 31 Mercer Street, NYC. The show addresses many facets of pollination as a fertile exchange, including bees, commerce, human relationships, spirituality and technology. Works include large-scale sculpture, kinetic sculpture, works on paper and perfume. A public reception will be hosted at the gallery on September 12 from 6 - 8pm. The show runs through October 24.
For more information, please sign up for my mailing list or contact Ronald Feldman Fine Arts: (212) 226-3232.
I've recently started an experiment with my bees that involves a wood frame and wax foundation in the shape of the United States (lower 48). In two weeks, they've made a lot of progress and show a knack for US geography without any prompting on my part. California and the Pacific NW are extremely popular and apparently too small, as the bees have built burr comb to make the west coast bigger. They have built-up the Rocky Mountains as the high point of their map; and constructed a very large island off the coast of the Northeast. Perhaps an enlargement of overcrowded Manhattan? Otherwise, there's not much happening on the East coast. They've made some progress on the northern section of the Appalachian mountains, maybe a Catskills retreat for Manhattan bees to get away. Florida gets zero attention because the peninsula is too small for bees to make it worth their effort. The Southeast, Midwest and Texas are basically flat but above sea level (if you imagine the wood frame to be their ocean). Nearly all of the nectar and pollen are stored in the bread basket of our nation. Good job little geography bees!
Below are images from the package installation, two days before this video was taken.
Photos by Sarah Loy, 2015.