v6 Early Reconstructions and Small Projects, 1994–97

Glen Seator: Making Things Moving Places

v6 / Early Reconstructions and Small Projects, 1994-97

This is a project from 1995, and the main work is titled Entrance. Simple title. It’s at the Neuberger Museum, a building that was designed by Philip Johnson in 1969. There was a New York Times critic whose best line was that the Neuberger Museum appears to have been carved from frozen liver. This brown brick was used on the floors and the walls. There are sheetrock panels on the walls, which were installed for hanging pictures, but the entire building, inside and out, is the same glazed brown brick.

I suppose I’ve always had a fear of buildings, or I did as a child. I wanted to make a sculpture that would be an exorcism or catharsis, that would concretize what where you are is doing to you. It was a big breakthrough to make something that cold. It embodied everything in my allergy to sculpture and architecture, and it also created a shift for me, an involvement with building that had been more of an ambivalence before. The process of making these works is something that could be another talk. For a year, the preparator was walking around with a brown brick in his hands, going to brick yards and trying to find it. I called Mr. Belden of Belden Brick in Ohio, and he said, „Sure, we’ll ship out a couple of pallets to you.“ So we had our bricks. Virtually the materials were the same. The work is in fact built; it’s not faux. You could see it as a sculpture, and you could also see it as an addition to the building.

[Entrance, 1994-95]

v6 / Early Reconstructions and Small Projects, 1994-97
Lay-flat softcover binding with a stitched book block and reinforced spine
Page dimensions: 19 x 26 cm (7.5 x 10.25 in.)
136 pages
9 works / 111 color reproductions of sources from the archive

cat 101 Entrance, 1994-95
cat 102 Untitled (benches), 1994-95
cat 103 Moving Parts (Wallraising #7) 1990-94, 1994-95
cat 104 Untitled (Balloon Frame), 1995
cat 112 Facsimile, 1996
cat 110 Planned Puddle #4, 1992-96, 1996
cat 113 Autoclave #3, 1995-96
cat 114 Autoclave #4, 1995-96
cat 115 Untitled (Wallraising #10), 1990-97, 1997

Shown above:

v6 / pages 12-13; 20-21; 22-23; 24-25; 28-29; 36-37; 38-39; 46-47; 48-49; 68-69, 74-75; 88-89; 90-91; 110-111; 128-129

works / cat 101 Entrance, 1994-95; cat 102 Untitled (benches), 1994-95; cat 103 Moving Parts (Wallraising #7) 1990-94, 1994-95; cat 104 Untitled (Balloon Frame), 1995; cat 112 Facsimile, 1996; cat 115 Untitled (Wallraising #10), 1990-97, 1997

sources / v6: 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 57, 58, 63,64, 74, 75, 76, 77, 94, 95, 110, 111