Wild Wild West
With allusions to a native mythology of the United States, "The Wild, Wild West" is a gallery-sized installation of drawings, paintings and found objects, with an audio accompaniment, that explores the familiar, popular imagery of the Old West, suggesting that notions of good and evil themselves become ambivalent in such a culture: neither man nor beast is spared or beyond the strife; and the hand that holds the weapons is the body that falls.
Created between 2001 and 2003, different stages of the installation have been seen at galleries in Connecticut, New York and London, England. The artist's original studies - works of art in themselves from which the large installation was developed (much as sets and costumes from designs for the stage) - are also shown, in pastel on Arches or Reeve paper, in various sizes as "Drawings From The Wild, Wild West."
