This June, on exhibit in the gallery windows, Annie Asebrook’s light installation, “Demodulator”. See this installation in the gallery windows at dark, overnight, thru June 30.
Thank you everyone who came out for the sidewalk art opening to celebrate Annie’s mesmerizing installation. Event photos by Sean Su with Purple Photo Co.
Artist Statement
I like to find patterns in multitudes. The repeated patterns of nature -- found in leaves, pine cones, ferns -- hold my fascination. So do the massive redundancies of modern industrial life, conjuring images of large piles of batteries, or light bulbs, or tires. There's a strange paradox to these mounds; on the one hand, each unit's individuality is rendered anonymous, and yet, if you look closely enough, one soon realizes that each unit is, however slightly, unique. At the same time, each individual piece does give up its singularity to the collective aesthetic that derives its power from numbers.
One object that's fascinated me for a long time is the toilet paper core (the cardboard tube at the center of a toilet paper role), a common, cheap, mass produced cylinder that happens to create an exquisite line and fits well into a pattern. When experimenting with the cores, I realized that when a lot of them were stacked together, they could cast a series of small shadow circles when light was shone through them. Then, when placing architectural paper over the cores things got more interesting - the light became diffused and created optical illusions with the cores (sometimes they looked two-dimensional, other times like oval eggs, etc.). Using light with color created pixilation. And moving light created dancing pixels. Just a handful of mundane objects - the cores, paper clips, and paper - when assembled and imbued with light, were transformed into an aesthetic that both transcended and affirmed its individual parts.
Special thanks to Wes Pac tubing in Belvidere, Illinois for providing me with 6,000 toilet paper cores and the following extra paper clipping hands: Daniel Cantor, Olive Cantor, Taal Hasak-Lowy, Ariel Hasak-Lowy, Noam Hasak-Lowy, and Emily Grayson.
-Annie Asebrook
To see more of Asebrook’s installations, follow her on Instagram at @annieasebrook
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1100 Florence Gallery (1100florence.com)
Once a Polish Meat Shop, then a cabinet shop, this storefront now houses art and events, with easy street access and plenty of sunlight! Located on the corner of Greenleaf and Florence at 1100 Florence Ave., Evanston, IL 60202
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