Steven Riddle, "Untitled," 2009-2012
Steven Riddle, "Pete Rose Up," 2011-2012
For this exhibition, Steven deposited his collages’ raw material in Plexiglas display lids to create a buoyant, scrappy sculpture shaped like a ziggurat. Such a move evokes Armann’s many boxes presenting quotidian scraps and detritus. Steven's recognizing these fragments as “displayable,” recalls Constantin Brancusi or Dan Flavin suddenly realizing that their support materials, whether carved wooden pedestals or fluorescent tubes, sufficed as art.
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