Kennebunkport

Nicholas Krushenick

1980

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A black and white photograph showing a young Black girl, turned slightly toward the camera, standing in front of a sculpture of a Pieta theme.
A four-sided, metal-framed architectural structure with walls of two-sheet Plexiglas. The frame is rectangular with a raised pitch; there is no roof or cover. The front wall contains an open doorway, through which visitors may enter. Rows of narrow shelves line the walls of the structure. Evenly spaced upon the shelves are small "bricks" of Lucite, within which are suspended bits and pieces of small everyday objects. The shelves are lit so as to make the individual bricks glow. Soil is mounded around the structure's outer perimeter to about a two-foot width. There are shards of crockery and other detritus in the dirt. One hears a soundtrack of recorded voices, mostly one-at-a-time.
Untitled (Wire Dress), Gregory Warmack, wire mesh
A geometric pattern familiar from many global traditions--whether textiles like American quilts, Persian carpets, Laotian appliques, and Bhutanese kira or tiled walls and floors or woodwork, Amighi has here harnessed patterns into a metal-and-shadow sculpture. The tightly tessellated pattern gradually disintegrates both in its shadow and in its form. Work includes a light in addition to the metal and fiberglass mesh sculpture.