Here and There
Pace London
Spring 2013

Photography: Gordon R. Christmas, courtesy Pace Gallery

With Here and There, a two-part exhibition at Pace in London and New York, I explored both a local and global view of the natural world.

The New York presentation of Here and There concentrated on the geography of Manhattan and New York State (Here), while the London exhibition explored natural phenomena within but also beyond London, extending to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Arctic (There).

Both exhibits started with a sectional drawing that maps the terrain above and below sea level intersecting both cities latitudinally and, for New York City, longitudinally as well. I was interested in using a very traditional, almost cliché, material— white marble— and a very mechanized process to reveal in a series of sculptures cross sections of the earth’s crust, creating circular pieces for the latitudes and linear ones for the longitudinal sections.

My focus was on the major waterways of both cities, and for There I chose to include a series based on the disappearance of some of our largest bodies of freshwater and of the arctic ice cap.

In both exhibits I wanted to ground us in a sense of our place and venture out and explore aspects of the world, such as the estuary of the Lena River or the Danube River, thus connecting us to a larger mapping of the world.

Related Press:

• Kino, Carol. Maya Lin’s New Memorial is a City. The New York Times (April 25, 2013)