All photos by courtesy of Storefront Bushwick
Without a doubt one of the most interesting art shows on view in Bushwick right now is no more. The huge plexi monolith at Storefront Bushwick cracked. This site-specific installation by Adam Parker Smith had to be abruptly uninstalled one week before the planned ending of the show. “I was at the gallery yesterday to meet a group of students […], when I noticed huge cracks forming on the monolith,” the gallery owner Deborah Brown emailed us. “I could hear the glass starting to crack and the fissures were spreading. It was alarming because the piece is 9′ high, and it was dangerous,” Deborah continued.
Deborah evaluated the situation together with Adam Parker Smith and decided to take down the futuristic monolith this morning.
2001: A Space Odyssey meets California Air and Light Minimalism was one of the two pieces at Adam Parker Smith’s solo show at Storefront Bushwick. The piece has been attracting crowds of people into the tiny Bushwick art space that once used to serve as a tax office.
However, there is also something good about the cracked piece – Storefront Bushwick has installed three new pieces by Adam Parker Smith and the show will continue until February 3, 2013.
Adam Parker Smith “Untitled (face 2)”
Adam Parker Smith: “Plunge” (new piece in the show)
Storefront Bushwick will be open in its regular weekend hours 1-6PM.
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okay.. this show was SO great.. seriously. Loved it. LOVED IT loved it.
but now….. a post with “CRACKED” written across a photo of the sculpture? With a quote suggesting that there could have been a DISASTER .. hurting a group of students.. if the piece wasn’t taken down?! I feel Deborah is doing herself and the artist a disservice by (okay .. I’m being an alarmist .. taking a cue from the quote) ..well.. sounding the alarm.. I mean.. the new work is actually JUST as exciting (I may be a lil obsessed with ‘Plunge’ already ) Storefront Bushwick would have benefited (ie a NEW POST) just as well by announcing it as a rotating show ..or just hinting at the need of it’s removal in a way that doesn’t suggest that the very excellent Adam Parker Smith takes unwanted risks (for future show opportunities) while it also actually even belies confidence in Deborah’s curatorial practices..
or maybe it’s just a funny aside about process.. materials.. etc..
I could not pass up a chance to state the unease I felt with the carelessness of this post..
Hi Concerned Citizen,
thanks for your comment, but I disagree with your concerns. I don’t think that Deborah’s quote suggests any disaster in progress. But it is true that the piece could have hurt somebody if it wasn’t taken down on time. It was a 9 foot tall plexi thing…
Also I think that trying to suggest some sort of a rotating show would be a lie. I believe that everybody who has ever put up an art show understands that these kinds of things simply happen from time to time, and the best way to face them is honesty.
-Katarina
I agree with concerned citizen! I think it was unnecessary to publish this article and the tone of it is histrionic. Especially writing “Cracked” across the picture of Adam’s sculpture. I think it was too dramatic to use an example of school children at risk, and it left a bad taste in my mouth to read this article. I usually enjoy Bushwick Daily, and as a person interested in the arts, I really felt this was a small town way to deal with an issue, Bushwick we are better than this! I also love the “Plunge” piece. Great work, Adam Parker Smith!