DOVE BRADSHAW

"Six Continents and Angles"
(see checklist below)

June 3- July 2, 2005

Six Continents

"Six Continents", 2003, is exhibiting first in this gallery. It was prompted by a long-standing desire to make sculptures that change their shape. The two interactive elements are salt and water. Six kinds of salt were gathered from various locales* and poured into mounds. Their different natures result from the mineral deposits in each locale: Africa, gray; Antarctica, ivory; Australia, white; Eurasia, brown; North America, green; and South America, pink. Above each mound a calibrated dropping funnel is suspended.

This process evolved from paintings surfaced with silver and chemically treated to further prompt a reaction from humidity. The translation into sculpture combined two volatile materials placed outdoors to weather. The resulting Indeterminacy stones from 1995 combined the ephemeral mineral pyrite with more stable marble. A year later, funnels were suspended indoors to steadily water limestone, granulated salt mounds and crystallized salt boulders. Six Continents will show next at the Solway Jones Gallery in Los Angeles in October 15th to November 14th, 2005 and a permanent site at the Palazzo Durini, Bolognano is scheduled to open in August, 2006.

Angles

Conversely the paintings evolved from sculpture. In an outdoor work a copper prism was positioned atop a limestone cube, one of its points touching an edge. Situated outdoors to weather, a vertical stain developed over time. The paintings consist of a smaller equilateral triangle placed within a larger one. The inner triangle is similarly a one-quarter reduction positioned with one of its points touching an edge.

These white on white paintings were executed horizontally and in the morning for ideal light. An exploration of paint, plaster, wax and the interaction of the support elements– pencil, gesso, linen and wood, account for their variety. Some are quickly done while others are layered over a period of months. In the course of the past five years the work in this series branched into two projects calling for variable hangings: one in which paintings exist individually; the second in which they cohere as a group. Angles, exhibited here, consists of twelve paintings. They are shown in the twelve positions in which one side of either the inner or outer triangle is aligned with the horizon. Chance determined how each painting was hung. However, each painting can be hung in any of the twelve positions independent of the series. When this work is shown as a unit the hanging of the paintings may be changed as long as none of the positions are repeated.

* From Egypt, McMurdo Bay, Western Australia, Ireland, Dominican Republic and Chile. The Antarctic salt was gathered with assistance from scientists funded by the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC; the Irish salt from Irish Salt Mining and Exploration, Carrickfergus, N. Ireland; and the remaining salt from Atlantic SALT, Staten Island, New York.

Relating back to their sculptural origins, the varying hangings affect the balance of the inner and outer triangles and may interplay with the surrounding architectural space indeterminately.

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CHECKLIST:

Six Continents 2003-5

Front room: starting at front window:

Six poured mounds of salt from:

Antarctica: white salt from McMurdo Bay
Eurasia: brown salt from Ireland
Africa: gray salt from Egypt
South America: pink salt from Chile
North America: green salt from Dominican Republic
Australia: white salt from Western Australia

Salt: each mound 100 lbs., 1000 ml dropping funnels, water

(A)claimed Object, 1979, framed unique silver gelatin print Documentation of a "claimed" sculpture (a hygrometer)in the Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, 1979; paper size: 4 1/4” x 6”; framed size: 11 1/8" x 12 5/8"

Angles 2003-5

Second room: from left at entryway:

This hanging presents the twelve orientations respecting the horizon:

VII, 2004, oil, cold wax medium, plaster, Jade glue, gesso on linen over wood, 21" each side
VI, 2005, oil, cold wax medium, gesso on linen over wood, 21" each side
I, 2005, plaster, gesso on linen over wood, 21" each side
VIII, 2005, Jade glue, gesso on linen, over wood, 21" each side
V, 2005, gesso, plaster on linen over wood, 21" each side
IV, 2004, gesso on linen over wood, 21" each side
X, 2005, graphite, gesso on wood, 21" each side
XII, 2004, oil, cold wax medium, gesso on linen over wood, 21" each side
III, 2003, oil, gesso on linen over wood, 21" each side
II, 2003-4, graphite, oil, cold wax medium, gesso on linen over wood, 21" each side
IX, 2005, gesso on wood, 21" each side
XI, 2005, oil, cold wax medium, gesso on linen over wood, 21" each side
2/0, 1971, framed, signed, editioned (1/24), inkjet print on archival paper site size: 3 3/8" x 2 7/8"; framed size: 11 3/16" x 9 7/8"