Pink Project |
The Garden |
Green Piece; Lawn |
 “Green Piece; Lawn,” School House Center Gallery, Provincetown size variable, 2000 |  “Green Piece; Lawn,” Historical Materialism size variable, 2003 |  “Green Piece; Lawn” PPOW Gallery size variable, 2007 |  “Green Piece; Lawn” (detail), PPOW Gallery size variable, 2007 |  “Green Piece; Lawn” PPOW Gallery size variable, 2007 |  “Green Piece; Lawn” Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty Monserrat Collage of Art, Beverly, MA size variable, 2008 |  “Green Piece; Lawn” Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty Monserrat Collage of Art, Beverly, MA size variable, 2008 |  “Green Piece; Lawn” (detail from above), Garbage Picker! The Contemporary Artist as Chiffonier(e) Affirmation Arts, NYC size variable, 2008 |  “Green Piece; Lawn” (detail), Garbage Picker! The Contemporary Artist as Chiffonier(e) Affirmation Arts, NYC size variable, 2008 |  “Green Piece; Sarcophagus”, PPOW Gallery 40" x 83" x 58", 2009 photo by Andy Wainwright |  “Green Piece; Sarcophagus” (detail), 2009 photo by Andy Wainwright |  “Green Piece; Sarcophagus,” PPOW Gallery, Pulse Miami 40" x 83" x 58", 2009 |
Artist Statement
“Lawn” is made up of found green plastic objects laid out in patches of greens resembling a suburban lawn. Green is a color that represents nature. It is interesting to see what is mass produced in green plastic and how, once again, color is used as a marketing tool. Almost anything you can imagine that has a relationship to nature, good or bad, can probably be found in green plastic: fly swatters, a turtle shaped sandbox/pool, real and
toy Army junk, yard tolls and furniture, Astroturf, weed killer, dinosaurs and monsters, bug spray, plastic plants, etc. We think of the lawn as a natural phenomenon, but really, it is a man-made thing. It is said that the lawn is the biggest agricultural crop in the country. “Lawn” pushes that artificiality to an extreme, finding the horrible beauty in formal squares of discarded trash, each object carrying the weight of its individual meaning, as crucial and profuse as a blade of grass.
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