A.K. Burns "pregnant patron penny pot"

Callicoon Fine Art

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Callicoon Fine Arts presents pregnant patron penny pot, A.K. Burns’ first one-person exhibition.

pregnant patron penny pot unites a series of sculptures with wall-mounted works comprised of colored fabric, inset with photographic reprints. The freestanding three-dimensional works are clad in Formica evoking figurative sculpture through the intimate scale of the body. Using a paired-down geometric vocabulary of delineation to form openings—the line, the edge and frame imply what is in, what is out, what passes through and what passes us by. These works congeal as skin and surface, the flesh-toned faux-marble aspires to and usurps the most solidly traditional of sculptural and architectural materials.

The sculptures converse with the series of image-on-fabric pieces while standing firm in material contrast, opening an associative space between production, reproduction and labor. The fabric works are scaled to the digital and printed page, reflecting the economy of easy handling and exchange. The images were sourced from The New York Public Library Picture Collection and are hung limply from the wall like flaccid picture planes wedged in place with pennies dug into the surface of the drywall. The reprints include a reproduction of Kurt Seligmann’s L’untrameable, a chair constructed from a figure in bondage, a prehistoric fertility stone carving, an archeological dig, hands shaping a pot on a spinning wheel, laborers on strike, a large stone monument, among other images.

The penny secured images form a unique kind of soft sculptural relief held in place by our smallest monetary unit, linking sculpture, the logic of built forms, to a larger cultural symbology, full of value and signification - the pregnant patron penny pot.

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Schedule

from March 03, 2012 to April 15, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-03-03 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

A.K. Burns

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