hold your horses
Installation views from hold your horses, 2019 solo exhibition at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
hold your horses, 2019, three-channel video installation rear projected on gallery windows, dimensions variable, variable loop.
This 3-channel video installation reimagined the Fine Arts Work Center’s gallery as a barn/club. I invited Provincetown DJ Lizzy Pitch to play international disco, so that as a viewer approached, they could hear the music thumping inside. LED strips lighted the entryway, which led to put the cart before the in the main space.
put the cart before the, 2019, single-channel video installation with architectural glass samples, rotating display stands, guest DJ, disco music, LED strip entranceway.
A puppet show video storyboard for a Western set against luxury high rises on Manhattan’s West Side projects through spinning architectural glass samples. Guest DJ (Lizzy Pitch) plays international ‘80s disco. The spinning glass turns the video into a disco ball. This all leads to a dance party.
In 2019 I started working with archival images of the West Side Cowboys to make storyboard images for an imagined Western set against the West Side of Manhattan. In the process, I replaced the faces of the cowboys with those of classic Hollywood film stars, casting Grace Kelly, Barbara Stanwyck, Elizabeth Taylor, Katy Jurado, Elsa Cardenas (and Rachel Weisz) in speculative scenes. I made a puppet storyboard video with printed cutouts of the photoshopped archival images (as well as contemporary NYC horses) set against projected renderings of Hudson Yards. For put the cart before the, I projected the storyboard video through architectural glass samples on rotating display stands.