Circling the Square: Words from END OF DAY [electronic resource].

Hesse Flatow 2021

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Gordon Hall’s version of this oddly gendered furniture item is riddled with tiny nails, a laboriously achieved decorative feature that resembles reptilian skin, silvery and shifting in the sunlight. Here it stands, drained of use but suggestive of function, stiff but body-like, in the gallery. These tensions in the clothes valet point to a sense of animacy that threads through the enigmatic works in Hall’s exhibition, which shares the clothes valet’s name: END OF DAY. While most of the works hover on the edge of domestic function—a table, a chair, a bench, folded linens—they veer in unexpected directions. The leg of a table becomes the foot of a bird; the line on the floor becomes the seam of some jeans; a letter becomes a step; a symbol becomes a seat. Both recognizable and opaque, the works’ forms have been drawn from the world in a variety of ways, at times retaining the materiality of their sources while elsewhere being remade in pigmented cast concrete or resurfaced with graphite or colored pencil. A shim from a past work is repoured in solid brass, shifting from an unassuming object of support to a sliver of reflected light. These alterations in form and surface hint at imaginative potentials for use, conjuring altered relationships between objects and bodies…
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Performance Art
Sculpture

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Gordon Hall
Mira Dayal
Roya Amirsoleymani
Math Bass
Nicole Eisenman
Rami George
David J. Getsy
Danny Giles
Jason Hendrik Hansma
Corin Hewitt
Kahlil Robert Irving
Andrew Kachel
Katherine Lennard
Nancy Lupo
John Neff
Sidony O’neal
X Zhu-Nowell
Jenny Gorman
Jacob Jackmauh