Untitled (centerline)
2014
Gallery wall paint in a high gloss sheen
1/8” x 134’ (dimensions are variable, in photos above it circumnavigates a 27’ x 40’ gallery)
With this work I am calling attention to the centerline, a somewhat arbitrary height often used to level the centers of 2D artworks. Most viewers would not question this abstract mean by which 2D art’s placement is defined, however once you know it is there you start to perceive how it and other systems of display contribute to a hierarchical way of seeing the limited few ‘important’ objects over countless others that might be residing in a given museological space. By bring to focus the constructed nature of such spaces there is an inference that someone is doing the constructing, bringing attention to the labor involved.