Maintaining Pleasure, 2010

Islip Art Museum Carriage House, East Islip NY

“Maintaining Pleasure,” a tableau of rounded, stacked platforms and a shortened yellow wall was designed to draw attention to spaces of absence and incompletion. The mop and brown clod sculptures on the floor suggest the installation has transformed the gallery into a site of perpetual mess and maintenance.

 

Dimensions: 4 ½’ x 11’ x 17’ / 4 ½’ x 16 ¾’ x 4’

Materials: Foam panels, foam board, wood, paint, stain

Installation by Kirsten Reynolds.
Stacked fake wood scraps in the installation by Kirsten Reynolds.
Two circular platforms stacked together in the installation by Kirsten Reynolds.
Small brown sculptures on the floor.
Sculpture of a "Mop," leaning against the gallery wall by a pile of fake wood.
Installation by Kirsten Reynolds.
Stacked fake wood scraps in the installation by Kirsten Reynolds.
Two circular platforms stacked together in the installation by Kirsten Reynolds.
Small brown sculptures on the floor.
Sculpture of a "Mop," leaning against the gallery wall by a pile of fake wood.
Maintaining Pleasure, 2010
Islip Art Museum Carriage House, East Islip NY

“Maintaining Pleasure,” a tableau of rounded, stacked platforms and a shortened yellow wall was designed to draw attention to spaces of absence and incompletion. The mop and brown clod sculptures on the floor suggest the installation has transformed the gallery into a site of perpetual mess and maintenance.

 

Dimensions: 4 ½’ x 11’ x 17’ / 4 ½’ x 16 ¾’ x 4’

Materials: Foam panels, foam board, wood, paint, stain

Funding for this site made possible in part by the NH State Council on the Arts