Lasers in a Gallery: Rita McBride?s Particulates
16 high-intensity lasers cut through the misty air of a dark garage in West Chelsea in the latest work, Particulates, by Rita McBride.
Sixteen high-intensity lasers cut through the misty air of a dark garage in West Chelsea. The latest work by artist Rita McBride feels like an inter-dimensional wormhole. It’s beautiful, legitimately dangerous, and it just took Art History to a new level.
Particulates will remain on view in New York at Dia:Chelsea, a former marble-cutting facility, through June. The building looks completely shuttered – enter through the single doorway on the right with the “Danger: Laser Radiation” sign.
Besides the lasers, materials are listed as ?site-specific particulates, ambient extraterrestrial dust, and water molecules (which I?m pretty sure is just the coolest way to say ?regular dust and mist?). I love it. Rita McBride, Particulates
Rita McBride, Particulates (and me)
Rita McBride, Particulates (detail)
The zig-zagging fence in the room is not to be ignored: It is both legally necessary AND a separate sculpture. Titled Barriers 2017, it consists of a carbon-fiber gate placed at the ?lawful distance? from the high-intensity lasers.
Rita McBride, Barriers
Particulates marks McBride?s first use of lasers as a material – inspired by a visit to Dan Flavin?s 1973 work ?Untitled (to you Heiner, with admiration and affection)” at Dia:Beacon, the art foundation’s primary exhibition space located 60 ...
Sixteen high-intensity lasers cut through the misty air of a dark garage in West Chelsea. The latest work by artist Rita McBride feels like an inter-dimensional wormhole. It’s beautiful, legitimately dangerous, and it just took Art History to a new level.
Particulates will remain on view in New York at Dia:Chelsea, a former marble-cutting facility, through June. The building looks completely shuttered – enter through the single doorway on the right with the “Danger: Laser Radiation” sign.
Besides the lasers, materials are listed as ?site-specific particulates, ambient extraterrestrial dust, and water molecules (which I?m pretty sure is just the coolest way to say ?regular dust and mist?). I love it. Rita McBride, Particulates
Rita McBride, Particulates (and me)
Rita McBride, Particulates (detail)
The zig-zagging fence in the room is not to be ignored: It is both legally necessary AND a separate sculpture. Titled Barriers 2017, it consists of a carbon-fiber gate placed at the ?lawful distance? from the high-intensity lasers.
Rita McBride, Barriers
Particulates marks McBride?s first use of lasers as a material – inspired by a visit to Dan Flavin?s 1973 work ?Untitled (to you Heiner, with admiration and affection)” at Dia:Beacon, the art foundation’s primary exhibition space located 60 ...
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