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    • Trail Signs
    • PAD (Public Art Dialogue)
    • Sign Show Slide Show
    • Clockwork Gallery
  • Curating
    • Usdan Gallery at Bennington College
    • I-70 Sign Show
    • The I-71 Project
  • Studio
    • Madras
      • + about Madras
    • Color-Word Value Index
      • + book
      • + chairs
      • + pedagogy
      • + word dualities
      • + CWVI Archive
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Clockwork Gallery

Color / Time / Chance Abstraction

Clockwork Gallery, Mehringplatz, Berlin, 2010.

Clockwork Gallery is located in one the “advert-clocktowers” found all over Berlin. Artworks occupy two sides of the kiosk. In 2010, the other sides displayed casino ads. In response, I structured a dice game (see diagram) to produce paintings that connected ideas of the “wheels” of color, chance, and time.  


Dice rolls determined how colors associated with numbers filled out sections of an abstract design. Shifting the color-number associations by 3 (or a quarter) resulted in a palette shift according to probability. The “midnight” painting had more red, white, blue, yellow, and black. The “3 a.m.” painting had more orange, green, gray, brown and purple. Each painting contains a time-code marker tossed randomly on the scanner while the works were digitized for printing.




Clockwork Gallery, installation view
Clockwork_Drawing_1200A
Clockwork_Drawing_0300a
diagram
clock_casino_WEB
dice_clock_install_A009
dice_clock_install_B008
Clockwork_Drawing_1200_v2
Clockwork_Drawing_0300_v2