Permutations Of Working Together
September 4-24, 2021
Site responsive installations Permutations of Working Together highlights non-linear conversations through the art making process. Artists-in-residence Victoria Fuller and Sam Schwindt were invited to create site-responsive installations. The idea was to create visual forms that bear traces of compelling, productive, and infinite processes where viewers, like the artists, find themselves in a durational, experimental process of chartering uncertainty, where forms may seem fixed and their associations generating endless permutations.
Event Dates for Permutations of Working Together:
August 13th - September 24th, 2021
Exhibition dates: September 4th, 5-6 pm:
3D4D Conversations with Collector’s Circle
September 24th: Closing Reception
3D4D Artist Residency Journal for Permutations of Working Together
September 2021
Process photos (above) courtesy of the artists
Day 1-6: Made sketchbook drawings to determine project design and measurements and gather materials (different colored garden hoses, rope, duct tape, screws, drills, measuring tape, pencil, flanges, copper fittings and faucets, metal strapping, vinyl gear ties).
Day 7-11: Started drawing on wall with rope taking the place of the hose set the location for the hose, using duct tape to hold it on the wall (which is easier and quicker to work with than the garden hose), then traced around the rope onto the wall with a pencil as a guide of where to place the garden hose.
Day 12-21: Installed flanges, faucets and measured and cut the yellow hose (longer than the final length to make sure there was enough when it was finally cut). Once the final length was determined the brass female fittings were installed in the end, so that it could be attached to faucets at both ends. The green hose was installed next, in the same manner, then the brown ones and finally the orange ones. There was a lot of measuring and redoing the hose placement, to get both sides of the symmetrical design even since things did not match up with the original drawing and placement of the hose needed to be redone and re-measured quite frequently. The whole process took twice as long as anticipated.
Day 22-24: Sam And Victoria worked collaboratively on a third piece. He added leather boots and leather scrap pieces, an LED light and aluminum wire and Victoria experimented using different colored extension cords, a broom, a watering can, artificial plants, garden hose, a construction light and a blender. Victoria’s assistant Spencer found a bird’s nest and they added that to the mix. They titled it “Haphazard Summer.”
About Victoria Fuller
Victoria Fuller is a Chicago sculptor, painter, natural science illustrator, and curator. She creates works with appropriated objects and nature themed art work. Fuller has been honored with fellowships from the Colorado Council for the Arts and Humanities and the Illinois Arts Council with appearances in galleries, museums, and public spaces nationally and internationally.
About Samuel Schwindt
Samuel Schwindt’s work plays with the dueling concepts of intimacy and detachment.He sculpts abstractions and contortions with light-activated materials, conveying different stories ranging from the uncanny to the queer. He is a narrator to metonyms and metaphors, such as water and ice, skins, abstracted identities, and reflections of the complicated ego. Schwindt is from Indianapolis, Indiana, and based now in Chicago IL. He received his BFA in studio art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019.