Keepin' On The Paper Trail

My head and eyes remain on paper as a “go to" material, and clearly, many other very talented folks still think about its virtues too.

 

Last Saturday, I saw a cool show of Chris Gilmour’s work at the Freight and Volume Gallery in Chelsea. Gilmour maniacally recreates everyday objects out of cardboard and brown paper. I covet the grandfather’s clock, which is pretty awesome. I wish I had a bigger apartment that could showcase it properly (and a spare $27,000!)

 

 

Here’s another cool project Gilmour crafted entirely out of boxes, I believe to herald the opening of our friendly, new Red Hook neighbor, Ikea. I’m swooning over here, guys . . . over the installation, not Ikea’s opening, by the way.

 

 

 

Along a similar track, I recently became acquainted with Californian folk singer Phranc’s art work, also a series of objects created out of painted paper and cardboard.

 

 

 

We continue to explore our paper obsession in our own and various ways. Since we’ve been so busy, we haven’t had time to share images from The America’s Society Gala we produced back in June at Cipriani’s grand, old space on Wall Street. To reinforce the organization’s focus on the exchange between North, South, and Central America, we enhanced the space with décor created from 45,000 postcards of monuments, people, landscapes, flora, and fauna of the regions that comprise the Americas and Canada. An entry wall, HUGE suspended chandeliers, and even vases for the flowers, all were hand-made out of the post cards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This installation was in part inspired by the pixilated Post-it decor I had been transfixed by in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman. The America’s Society entry wall map made out of postcards was a direct response to those fabulous windows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stay tuned for images from the upcoming Museum of Arts and Design Gala that we are designing (November 12th, 2008) which explores these ideas further. You’ll see the connection immediately and I’ll continue to post other cool paper works that I find “out in the world.” It will be fun to see these items amass on David Stark Sketchbook as a movement of the times.

D.