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Date
9-2010
Abstract
Lamp Forest is composed of second-hand lamps collected by the artists (Anna Kell & Jonathan Clyde Frey) in Johnson City & Kingsport, Tennessee; Gainesville, Florida; Columbus, Indiana; and Dayton, Ohio. The collection is limited to include only those lamps that depict or represent a version of idealized nature. Viewed in a darkened room, the piece itself gives off the only light. The lamps are configured to feel and look like a forest, inhabited with grizzly bears, cypress knees, leopards, swans, wildflowers and whatever additional flora & fauna the lamps display.
There are multiple questions under investigation; however, the central focus is upon the way nature is represented in our cultural commodities. This collection of lamps also brings into question issues of class, taste, and aesthetics. Though these objects were found and collected in the specific locales, they extend beyond the local and demonstrate the relationship that mass-production has with the unique culture of any particular place. -- from the artist's website.
Rights
Copyright 2010, Anna Kell
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Visual Work Type
installations (visual works); assemblages (sculpture)
Type
Exhibition
Exhibition Type
Solo
Technique
assembling (additive and joining process)
Medium
found objects
Measurements
variable
Venue
2010 The Rover Soho, New York, New York.
Department
Art & Art History
Recommended Citation
Kell, Anna and Frey, Jonathan, "Lamp Forest" (2010). Faculty Exhibitions. 7.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/art-faculty-exhibitions/7