June 23 - August 5, 2006

In the Installation Space

On Thursday, June 22 at 7pm, SuttonBeresCuller will enter a 32ft x 32ft x 12ft box in the Installation Space of Lawrimore Project.  For three weeks the artists will work in the box hermetically sealed from any human interaction beyond their own.  Spectators will be able to hear the artists building their “exhibition,” but will not be able to see what it is they are working on.  Even the gallery itself does not know what it is the artists are making.  On July 13 at 7pm, the walls come down, revealing the product(s) of their labor. The exhibition will continue for an additional three weeks after the revelation.

If These Walls… makes manifest SuttonBeresCuller’s ongoing inquiry of the nature of collaboration, site-specificity, the performative, and spectator-interactivity.  Conceived with a knowing nod to historical precedents such as Robert Morris’ Box With the Sound of its Own Making, Marcel Duchamp’s With Hidden Noise, Vito Acconci’s Seed Bed, Marina Abramovic’s The House with the Ocean View, and Tino Seghal’s This is… series, SuttonBeresCuller can now add a new inquiry to their list—the issue of ‘trust’ between a dealer and their artists.

In the White Cube

SuttonBeresCuller will also present a new series of seventeen photographs that range from elaborately staged vignettes to straight-up performance documentation.  Chronicling nearly all of the seven years the artists have been working collaboratively, these photographs provide an opportunity to view the full breadth of the artist’s practices to date. 

In the Black Box

New Evidence, a video installation by SuttonBeresCuller based on the controversial Patterson-Gimlin footage.

In the Sculpture Court

On exhibit will be two of SuttonBeresCuller’s most iconic pieces: Trailer Park, a mobile greenspace/living sculpture, and There Goes the Neighborhood, a mobile living room.

Biography

SuttonBeresCuller met at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle while pursuing degrees in sculpture. Their first collaboration was the Drive-Through Gallery in 1999.  The group went on to explore performance and multidisciplinary installations in various venues, such as Consolidated Works and Suyama Space.  Reflecting their view that art should be for everyone, they have most recently taken their show on the road, so to speak, bringing art to communities that wouldn’t normally be exposed to it in a non-threatening, non-dogmatic manner with works like Trailer Park, There Goes the Neighborhood, and perhaps their most notorious piece to date, The Island, a self-made floating sculpture the trio occupied for two days and nights in Lake Washington near the I520 bridge.  In 2005 they were honored with The Stranger Genius Award.  This will be the artist’s first exhibition in a commercial gallery.

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