Drawing
Rooms, 2001
Lennon-Weinberg, Inc.
100 ft. of
the sweet everyday, 2001
cyanotype
on paper mounted on wall, plastic shopping bags, helium balloons
100' X 5'
installation views, Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York
Photographs:copyright 2001, Paul Warchol Photography, Inc.
This exhibition
presents works on paper by three artists -- two painters and a sculptor (Denyse
Thomasos, Carl Palazzolo, and Robin Hill)-- who have long been associated
with the Lennon, Weinberg Gallery. Using the room divisions of our space,
each artist's work occupies it's own environment. ...A single new work by
Robin Hill will occupy the third and final room. She has made a large cyanotype
measuring five feet high and running a hundred feet around the perimeter of
the room. Hill "draws" with light by placing objects on chemically-sensitized
paper which yields an image after exposure and development. An exchange between
two and three dimensions is central to her work and occurs at several stages
of the process. White plastic grocery bags have been unfolded and bunched
up in a row down the length of the paper. The cyanotype process records their
shadows as a flattened record of their shapes on the two-dimensional surface
of the paper. That flat sheet takes on a third dimension again as it wraps
around and describes the volume of the room.
press release for Drawing Rooms, Lennon-Weinberg, Inc., 2001
"Hill is not content
to merely depict, rather the entire space is utilized and transformed to elevate
to these forms. Though the subject matter consists of a radical view of plastic
bags, content is defined by using that view to challenge how we see and engage
the world. In short, Hill seems to ask two things of us: Appreciate these
simple and disposable forms, actual or depicted, for the beauty they contain.
Then, extend that appreciation to an understanding, a way of seeing the world
at large. "
Abstract Art Online, January 2001
