22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches each (57.2 x 57.2 cm each)
(Inventory #30794)
22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches each (57.2 x 57.2 cm each)
(Inventory #30794)
In 2014, Amy Stacey Curtis presented “Matter,” her eight solo-biennial exhibit of interactive installation. “Matter” consisted of nine participatory works installed over 24,000 square feet of Parsonsfield, Maine’s Robinson Mill. Each of the nine installations was accompanied by instructions where the audience was challenged to activate, perpetuate, and/or complete Curtis’ concepts in specific ways.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Curtis made 18 drawings, rendering the outlines of all the matter in her home, including herself (any object at least 1/8″ [including individual food items, i.e. each pea, cracker, ice cube, etc]). The objects are organized by their room/location at their time of drawing. The drawings on view represent 104,564 objects in 18 spaces.
For further info on the entire “Matter” project, click here:
https://www.amystaceycurtis.com/matter2014.html
Amy Stacey Curtis (born 1970, Beverly, Massachusetts) is an installation artist focusing on participatory works. The Maine Arts Commission’s 2005 and 2017 Individual Artist Fellow For Visual Art and the recipient of numerous grants including those from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Curtis has exhibited interactive art internationally.
Curtis initiates each of her works which are then perpetuated and resolved by audience. For each installation, Curtis instigates a desired vision through provided guidance. Then, by relinquishing these concepts to her collaborative audience, her work sometimes proceeds in unanticipated ways. These uncontrollable unknowns are likewise crucial components of her work.
From 1998 to 2016, Curtis completed an 18-year project, 9 solo-biennial exhibits of large-in-scope, interactive art in 9 vast mill spaces throughout Maine. In the end, Curtis mounted 81 participatory installations while cleaning by hand each historic space (averaging 25,000 square feet). Each solo biennial was a 22-month process exploring a different, predetermined theme, inviting audience to activate each exhibit’s 9 unique works.
After Curtis’s 18-year project was finished, she had been working toward new interactive projects for 5 weeks in her studio, when she was debilitated by a neurological illness. After 2 psychiatric wards, the start of severe movement and speech disorder, and 15 months of unknowns, it was finally determined that Curtis’s brain had been attacked by untreated Lyme Disease.
Since the start of her disability in March 2017, Curtis has been moving forward and exhibiting new interactive concepts with help from assistants, curators, and the arts community. Curtis works from Lyman, Maine.
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