Ian Burns at VOLTA NY
We are pleased to be presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Ian Burns at the inaugural VOLTA New York, opening this Thursday.
Burns’ work has engaged with subjects as diverse as the war in Iraq, TV culture, colonialism, and art history. Using plain wood and primitive electronics, and often incorporating household objects and other assorted miscellanea, the artist creates absurdly convoluted mechanisms whose purpose is to produce a simple moving image on a screen, via a live video feed.
Ian will be presenting three new sculptural pieces at VOLTA New York that all feature common domestic objects including clothes drying racks, ironing boards, chairs, and other furniture in dramatically reassembled sculptural forms. The works incorporate their own flat panel screens, which display the moving imagery captured by small video cameras as the kinetic elements of the sculptures unfold. ‘Outpost’ conjures a scene of a flag shrouded in mist from an assemblage of tray tables and crutches. ‘People in High Places’ features a switching triptych of imagery - a plane traversing the sky, a misty mountaintop, and a skull - generated from a stack of clothes racks, a satellite dish, and a model of Air Force One. And a third new work continues the artist’s series of ice landscape pieces, creating a sublime glacial vista from a folding chair, snow shovel and plastic bag.
All of the works are for sale, one is unique and two are in an edition of five, and we will also have available editioned photographic work by the artist.
Thursday - Sunday, March 27-30th, 1 p.m. - 9 p.m
VIP Preview, Thursday, March 27th, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Shuttle service every 20 mins to and from The Armory Show
Burns’ work has engaged with subjects as diverse as the war in Iraq, TV culture, colonialism, and art history. Using plain wood and primitive electronics, and often incorporating household objects and other assorted miscellanea, the artist creates absurdly convoluted mechanisms whose purpose is to produce a simple moving image on a screen, via a live video feed.
Ian will be presenting three new sculptural pieces at VOLTA New York that all feature common domestic objects including clothes drying racks, ironing boards, chairs, and other furniture in dramatically reassembled sculptural forms. The works incorporate their own flat panel screens, which display the moving imagery captured by small video cameras as the kinetic elements of the sculptures unfold. ‘Outpost’ conjures a scene of a flag shrouded in mist from an assemblage of tray tables and crutches. ‘People in High Places’ features a switching triptych of imagery - a plane traversing the sky, a misty mountaintop, and a skull - generated from a stack of clothes racks, a satellite dish, and a model of Air Force One. And a third new work continues the artist’s series of ice landscape pieces, creating a sublime glacial vista from a folding chair, snow shovel and plastic bag.
All of the works are for sale, one is unique and two are in an edition of five, and we will also have available editioned photographic work by the artist.
Thursday - Sunday, March 27-30th, 1 p.m. - 9 p.m
VIP Preview, Thursday, March 27th, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Shuttle service every 20 mins to and from The Armory Show
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