see wall shake

Last night I went out to Boston to attend the opening of artist Tim Murdoch's sculpture exhibition "See Wall." I've known Tim for a while, he teaches at Clark, but I had yet to actually see any of his work. I went to the opening with our mutual friend fellow artist Marguerite White.

The opening took place in South Boston at the FPCA Gallery on Summer Street. Tim Incorporated industrial bed springs as bases and then tops them with mirrors. These are all connected to motors that cause the mirror to shake and vibrate, creating a buzzing noise. When the mirrors did begin to shake it creating an unsettling experience causing you to do a double take to make sure you saw what you thought you saw. The mirrors were activate by a motion detector that caught pedestrian movement on the street above.

The other art in the gallery was annoying. The artists that was exhibiting with Tim's sculptural installation used large digital prints of extreme closeups of colored sand. Boring! No matter how large you can make a picture, it doesn't make it any more interesting. Also, the sand color was digitally enhanced and looked like it came from those tacky sand bottles people keep in their bathrooms. Plus the presentation was very sloppy with bulletin board style tacks holding up the paper to the wall.

Check out some more pictures of Tim's installation below: