Carson Davis Brown’s “Mass” project puts site-specific, color-based installations in big box stores and other “places of mass” without permission. These visual disruptions take otherwise disparate objects and groups them into temporary sculptures. The project has taken the artist to stores across the U.S. A primary charge for the project is to make passers-by more aware of their environment by recontextualizing the items around them.
“At an intersection between Street Art and Land Art, installations are made without permission, using found materials within the retail landscape,” The works are made, photographed, then left to be experienced by passersby and ultimately dissembled by location staff. Mass works are also initially exhibited in a consumer landscape. Printed, framed and exhibited in-stores all without permission.”
The installations are typically disassembled by store employees soon after construction. Yet, that’s only the first part of the works’ lives. “Carefully photographing these sculptures of ephemera before they are eroded by store employees is as important as erecting them,” the artist adds.
The artist is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he’s the documentarian and media director at Cabin-Time.
Kim Yun Soo is a Korean multi media artist whose work spans from mixed media sculpture and installations to photography, but perhaps her most compelling work is an ongoing series of PVC footprints, dramatically transformed into surreal mountainscapes. Since 1999, Soo has been collecting the fingerprints and footprints of her close friends and acquaintances, recording their unique shapes and spirals and giving them a new dimension inspired by the natural world. Many of her works resemble a wave, where a single footprint ripples out into stacked shapes and contours, forming a sort of topographical map of their owner that she arranges in simple displays.
What do you get when you cross a roller coaster with a picnic table? Probably something that resembles