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Structure Fragments (2005–2007)

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Prairie Gehry is a full-scale section of Frank Gehry’s bandshell in Chicago for the 2006 Armory Art Show in New York, Prairie Gehry.

Prairie Gehry

2006 | Foamcore | 12 x 6.5 x 10 feet

 

This series consists of life-size fragments of notable structures that are displaced and cropped by their intersection with the existing structures of the room in which they are presented.

 
 
A kinetic prairie grass sculpture by Jeff Carter emerges from the base of the sculpture.Prarie Gehry 2Jeff Carter | Dimensions variable

A kinetic prairie grass sculpture by Jeff Carter emerges from the base of the sculpture.

Prarie Gehry 2

Jeff Carter | Dimensions variable

 
 

Torch was shown in Psychoideology: Spirituality, Politics and Identity in Search of a New Paradigm at Roebling Hall, New York in 2006.

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Torch

2006 | foamcore | 69 x 69 x 96 inches

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Torch

2006 | foamcore | 69 x 69 x 96 inches

 
Pilier Sud2005 | Foamcore |156 x 336 x 384 inches

Pilier Sud

2005 | Foamcore |156 x 336 x 384 inches

Pilier Sud (detail)2005 | Foamcore | 156 x 336 x 384 inches

Pilier Sud (detail)

2005 | Foamcore | 156 x 336 x 384 inches

“Almost a counter to this study of the tourist’s casual gaze is Pilier Sud, 2005, a full-scale model in white foamcore of a lower section of the Eiffel Tower. It is a detail made monumental, a highly specific rendering of something that must have been photographed millions of times but is rarely examined so intently.”

–James Yood, Artforum

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