Clifford Owens Exhibition
On Stellar Rays
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Owens is well known for his Studio Visit series, in which he engages visiting artists or arts professionals in one-on-one acts relating to the visitor's work. Studio Visits originated during a Skowhegan residency in Maine, where William Pope.L was one of the artists to visit Owens' studio. Owens commonly uses the body as a conduit for conversation, exposing the underlying dynamics between two individuals through prescribed physical interactions. The studio visit with Pope.L began with Owens' empty, white studio, buckets of mud, and pails of water. Owens and Pope.L proceeded to cover the walls with mud, each mud-slinging and smearing in turn. The performance was documented on a roll of black and white film, from which all 36 photographs will be on view, unedited and in sequence. As with all of Owens' work, the installation goes beyond documentation and takes on a strong formal component. The first image captures the white studio, and as more mud covers the walls, and sequentially gradates to darker shades.
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Schedule
from November 02, 2008 to December 14, 2008