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Date
Summer 2018
Abstract
photographs of 2018 installation of "The Overgrown Garden" by artist Anna Kell as exhibited at the Spartanburg Art Museum.
Rights
Copyright 2018, Anna Kell
Creative Commons License
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Visual Work Type
installation
Type
Exhibition
Exhibition Type
Invitational
Medium
gallery white latex paint on found objects
Measurements
20' x 20' x 12'
Statement
This recent installation foregrounds an analog between our cultural, decorative conventions and the idea of untenable growth. Though there are no actual plants here, I imagine this piece as a kind of abandoned homestead of the future over which grows an aggressive, escaped "garden" of thoroughly floral domestic cast-offs. The negative spaces of the patterns on the couches, armchairs, rugs, and textiles are all painted with matching gallery white paint, resulting in an ethereally camouflaged space that confuses the indoors with the outdoors, while also establishing a unified visual "ground" that allows better visibility of the decorative forms.
Venue
Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
Department
Art & Art History
Recommended Citation
Kell, Anna, "Off the Wall" (2018). Faculty Exhibitions. 18.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/art-faculty-exhibitions/18
Keywords
installation, contemporary art, interior decoration, domestic cast-offs, discards, found objects, painting