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Catherine Burce
Portfolio Artist Statement   Untitled, 2009 Wood, plaster, drywall, paint 9"x9"x6"   Untitled, 2009 Wood, plaster, drywall, paint 24"x24"x17"  The current works were initially born out of ideas about illusions of containment and permanence in the built world. Construction materials are generally flimsy and imprecise, but they are used as a language, cobbled together (sometimes skillfully, sometimes clumsily) into phrases and sentences that we all believe as truth in the buildings around us. Layouts of spaces, especially in urban environments, create bizarre perceptions of our own and other people's personal boundaries. We think we are alone in our apartment when only five inches of drywall, wood, and mostly air separate us from our neighbor, who also believes he is alone.
My aim is to upend the ideas of both materiality and space, using common building
products in uncommon ways to subtly question the surfaces on which they hang, taking
a tiny glimpse into the secret life of buildings. |