Untitled (Within and Beyond the Frame), 2005

Untitled (Within and Beyond the Frame)

Installation: dimensions variable

Silver and black hand-cut vinyl on wall

2005

“Dimensionality,” YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, ON

The title of this work refers to the 1972 installation by Daniel Buren in the John Weber Gallery in New York. Buren’s piece is a collection of striped canvases hung from a laundry line throughout the gallery space and out the window. The paintings could be seen from the street below, hung like striped linens, terminating at the façade of the building across the street.

I love Buren’s piece not only for its whimsy: it demonstrates how we can begin to perceive and understand space through repetition. I imagined what this piece would look like as a drawing in space. My version is a diagram of the work from two vantage points: one from the dramatic entry to the exhibition space and another from an oblique angle.