Stephanie Taylor "Pork Shank Stew"
Marc Jancou Contemporary
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Stephanie Taylor’s work draws from an archive of linguistic twists – puns, rhymes, and otherwise – as the basis of invented narratives that are realized as works in sculpture, print, video, and audio. Language is the cornerstone of Taylor’s exhibitions, which she composes based on select words that reference the specific location of the exhibition. These words are then broken apart into syllables, which Taylor derives rhymes from, and strings the resulting words together to create a story. The visual works take their cue from these often absurd and humorous tales.
The title of the exhibition, Pork Shank Stew, is a phonetic extrapolation of “Marc Jancou,” in which the name of the gallery is pronounced in a heavy Boston accent. Set in Boston, the story features a street vendor who rises at dawn with his dog, Wiffles, and sells Boston’s traditional street food, pork shank stew. He also sells honey, and uses it in his unusually sweet stew recipe, which includes poi from Hawaii in addition to fawn. He survives mostly on gin and legumes, perhaps a stone fruit on a good day, and shad row on wedding days only. The exhibition includes cast bronze, aluminum, and papier-mâché sculptures, as well as sketches, prints, video, and an audio work, which is performed by Arlys Alford and the Laura Steenberge Brass Group.
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from October 28, 2010 to December 04, 2010