Hotels, 1973
Collage of Photos and Gouache on Paper, Exhibition Announcement for West Broadway Gallery, 8.5" x 11"
Hotels, 1973
Acrylic on Masonite, wood, cellulose compound, mirror, fluorescent light, sand, fabric, paper, metal, sound (jungle birds)
Each unit approx. 5’8” x 5’8” x 1’2”
Hotel Pacifica,1972 and Bird Hotel, 1973
Acrylic on Masonite, wood, cellulose compound, mirror, fluorescent light, sand, fabric, paper, metal, sound (jungle birds)
Each unit approx. 5’8” x 5’8” x 1’2”
Bird Hotel and Dark Hotel, 1973
Acrylic on Masonite, wood, cellulose compound, mirror, fluorescent light, sand, fabric, paper, metal, sound (jungle birds)
Each unit approx. 5’8” x 5’8” x 1’2”
Hotel Pacifica,1972
Acrylic on Masonite, wood, cellulose compound, mirror, fluorescent light, sand, fabric, paper, metal
Approx. 5’8” x 5’8” x 1’2”
Egyptian Hotel, 1972
Acrylic paint, mirror, Masonite, wood, sand
Approx. 5’8” x 5’8” x 1’2”
Bird Hotel, 1973
Acrylic paint, graphite, wood, Masonite, mirror, sand
Approx. 5’8” x 5’8” x 1’2”
By the early 1970s, I was making painted “hotel” facades that I thought of as shaped canvases, which did not hang on the wall but were self-supporting. I showed the hotels at my first one-woman show in 1973 at a co-op gallery in SoHo. The hotels were installed like a tropical village with bird calls and hot lights. I derived the scale of the work, which I use to this day, from my own body: the first hotel was sixty-eight inches tall and the top of the front door came to my eye level.
