Polycarbonate

In this series, identically water-jet-cut, Polycarbonate sheets are manipulated into standing or hanging works. Each flat sheet is modified to create shape and visual tension, using stainless steel woven wire and brass, copper, or steel ferules to achieve torque/torsion. The lighting, and thus the correlative shadow component of each piece, is done specifically at installation. In a room, interior lighting creates the shadows and size of the work; the sun controls all of this when they are installed in the landscape. As hardscape the translucent works create shade and shadow and cause condensation/dew for flora.

“Freestanding sculptures whose curved surfaces and long sliced tabs offer a feminist response to the rigid minimalism of Sol Lewitt, Robert Smithson, and Donald Judd with whom they are in an artistic conversation…On the ground, and especially when sited outside, they project prominent shadows that transform their already delectable negative space into unstable drawings that shift beneath them. Erect yet rounded, sharp yet curled, they carve out a unique space for themselves in the post-minimal moment.” - Jennie Hirsh, from “Before and After Language: The Art of Madelin Coit”