This solo show on the Lower East Side at O’Flaherty’s spotlights a selection of the early sculptures that helped launch my career. The show includes my 1972 Hotel Pacifica installed among ambient jungle bird calls, as in my first solo show at West Broadway Gallery in 1973. (When I made the Hotels I thought of them as shaped canvasses, then built supports so that they could stand on their own.) I'm also exhibiting Tourist Cabin Porch (Maine), completed in 1976—one of the four pieces that I showed that same year at Holly Solomon’s pioneering SoHo gallery—and Two Stories with Porch (for Robert Cobuzio), which I rushed to finish for the 1979 Whitney Biennial. The final piece, installed around the corner on 3rd Street, is Cataract Cabin, completed in 1994. Inspired in part by Jane Bowles’s short story “Camp Cataract,” the tourist cabin is perched high on a rock, with part of the gallery ceiling removed to accommodate its height.
Photo Credit: Dylan Obser and Matthew Conradt
