Meat Market:
Meat Market @ Chashama 2009
This installation examines how the relationship of Art to the viewer and gallery relates to that of the bar scene and Meat industry trade. Works are intentionally life size. This creates an intimacy with the works when “mingling” through them. Yet, they are evenly spaced and strung from cold stainless steal hooks taking the liveliness out of them. Their first impression is that of a meat locker.
Individual Meat Market Works
The works themselves are simultaneously paintings, sculptures, abstract and representational. Works are made from scraps of painted paper and canvas that has been twisted, tied and sewn together with raw canvas and cloth. Traditionally framed works are literally “killed” by being stabbed, cut and torn to create the three dimensional forms.
Individual Meat Market Works 2007
Similar to the experience of purchasing meat in the urban environment, the end product does not always represent the original form. At a bar given the description of a “meat market” implies that all the patrons are there for is to “purchase” or possibly “win” each other’s company. A commercial gallery can often have the same effect. Artists alter themselves and their work in order to become “marketable.” Here the work challenges and highlights these aspects, turning the concept into a dual meaning that can be taken both abstractly or directly.
Meat Market
Detail Image of Meat Market @ Soap Box Gallery, 2008
Own A Piece of Meat: http://www.etsy.com/shop/cmasseyart?section_id=6797434
Pieces of Meat
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Come Undone:
This is a series in progress. Combining the methods used to create the “Brooklyn: An Art Community” series and the “Meat Market” series, works are made from scraps and cuttings of paintings on both canvas and paper and woven together.
Come Undone
The works in this series are meant to hang very close together creating a large quilt-like surface. The various pieces of materials use to create them hang loosely to the sides and below.
Come Undone
