Saturday, May 2, 2009

April 2009 @ Mercury 20 Gallery

Here are a few photos taken on opening night at my April show with Margaret Chavigny. This photo is a view of the sugar ladders that I mounted on the wall. Trying my hand at a mini installation! The sugar I used is called Isomalt. It is a sugar beet derivative that when cooked becomes very hard like rock candy. Not only did I color some of them, but I also embedded things like barbed wire, sticks, plastic animals and money. A sugar ladder seems to be a natural metaphor for the state our world is in at this strange point in time.

View from the street looking into the gallery.

Gitty, one of my favorite biking partners came by to see the show.

My work looks like it is dancing through the crowd of people.

We finished off the night at Luka's Tap Room with some yummy fries and dancing.