tL. A. Angelmaker's installation, entitled Bad Penny: For Museum Purchase Only, January 1996, Part I of XII, examines the way in which objects of art circulate through public and private institutions. The installation includes a display of objects that were deaccessioned from museum collections. In it, auction catalogs are presented on sculptural bases, each illustrating these objects. Also included is a renaissance-style table loaned by a private antique dealer for the duration of the exhibition.    
   

The actual object and the illustrated objects are offered for sale back to the institutions that deaccessioned them through letters, printed on gallery stationery, displayed in the gallery. Responses from the museums are displayed as they are received.

 

The artist provides information concerning his most recent exhibition: Sensaround, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, NYC, July 2-September 19, 1998. My last exhibition was a group show that explored the five senses. I exhibited a project entitled Text: Thill, Robert, "MTV Looks For a Piece of the Art World," Flash Art (International) 30, no. 194 (May-June 1997): 50. Read by James Traub. A closed magazine encased in plexiglas as speakers extend from the ceiling like spotlights and project a voice reading the Flash Art review toward the magazine. The audible text, which operates as a kind of "art-criticism-on-tape," is intended to illuminate the object, highlighting art writing as subject matter.

 
   
current projects | past projects | press archive | membership | store | about us | map | submissions | search