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“Project
Series 31: Katie Grinnan: The Rise and Fall” Opens at
the Pomona College Museum of Art
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“Project Series 31: Katie Grinnan: The Rise and Fall,” an
exhibition of sculpture and video, will be on view from
November 5 through December 17 at The Pomona College Museum
of Art. An opening reception will be held at the Museum from
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, November 5. Grinnan will present
an artist lecture on Wednesday, November 8, at 4:15 p.m. in
the Museum.
An interest in space has always been at the forefront of
Katie Grinnan’s work. Her sculptures involve the collision
of physical, photographic, psychological, public, private,
and political space. Grinnan uses photographs as material
for sculpture, and deconstructs and complicates both mediums
by collapsing, folding, and mirroring photographic images
into and around wooden and metallic forms, merging interior
and exterior form and space. Grinnan constructs her
sculptures from panels of Sintra—a thin, hard, plastic
material—upon which she attaches large photographs, then
anchors them with a variety of other materials like rebar,
cement, wood, etc.
Grinnan recently was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship
and a 2006 Pollock-Krasner Award. She was included in the
2004 Whitney Biennial and the important survey exhibition
“Snapshot” at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Her work is in the
public collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles.
This exhibition includes five loosely related works of art:
the book Rubble Division; two videos—Rise and Fall and
Rubble Division Interstate that document different
components of Grinnan’s project; and two interconnected
sculptures—Tower Story and Crane.
The book, Rubble Division, documents a three-part project of
the same name spanning 2005 through 2006. Rubble Division
emphasizes movement, transformation, renewal, and ruin.
Consistent with this idea, the piece exists in multiple
forms and perspectives proliferating its own mythology
sculpturally, through video, and through language.
In the first stage of the project, Grinnan was commissioned
by the Aspen Art Museum to create a float for the Fourth of
July Parade in 2005. The float divided ruined and built
space, partitioned the sounds of the band Cacophonous
Sarcophagus, and manipulated the spectators’ experiences so
that one side of the street’s perception would be different
than the other. The second stage, titled Inverse Parade,
reversed the constructs of a typical parade, with the panels
of the float fragmented and dispersed along the side of the
road and the spectators moving through space in a 15-person
van at the High Desert Test Site in May 2006.
The third phase of the project, Rubble Division Interstate,
was part of the exhibition “Interstate: The American Road
Trip,” curated by Andrea Zittel of the High Desert Test Site
and Allyson Baker and Robyn Donahue of Socrates Sculpture
Park in New York. The panels from Inverse Parade were
reconfigured into a roadworthy, high velocity, nomadic
sculpture that was broken down and reassembled daily. The
Rubble Division, a seven-person army including Grinnan, two
musicians (The Meat Bees), and several friends embarked on a
journey across country beginning at Joshua Tree and ending
at Socrates Sculpture Park.
The book Rubble Division compresses all the components of
the project into one moment, acting as a photograph of the
time period. The videos complement Grinnan’s project—Rise
and Fall depicts the breaking down and building up process,
while Rubble Division Interstate conveys the scope of the
interstate journey itself. Tower Story and Crane represent
examples of Grinnan’s earlier investigations into memory,
perception, time, and space. These two sculptures were some
of the first that Grinnan made that began to explore issues
of breaking down and building up, and processes of
destruction and reconstruction.
“Project Series 31: Katie Grinnan: The Rise and Fall” is the
thirty-first exhibition in the Project Series. Organized by
Museum Curator Rebecca McGrew, the Project Series presents
Southern California artists in focused exhibitions. The
purpose of the series is to bring to the Pomona College
campus art that is experimental; that introduces new forms,
techniques, or concepts. During each exhibition,
participating artists spend time on campus working with
faculty and students in relevant disciplines. The Project
Series is supported in part by the Pasadena Art Alliance and
Pomona College Museum of Art Advisory Committee member Sarah
Miller Meigs.
The Pomona College Museum of Art is located at 330 N.
College Avenue, Claremont. The Museum is open to the public
free of charge Tuesday through Friday, from noon to 5 p.m.,
and Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. For more
information, call (909) 621-8283 or visit the museum’s
website at www.pomona.edu/museum <http://www.pomona.edu/museum>
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The Pomona College Museum of Art collects, preserves,
exhibits, and interprets works of art. The Museum houses a
substantial permanent collection as well as serving as a
gallery for the display of temporary exhibitions. Important
holdings include the Kress Collection of 15th- and
16th-century Italian panel paintings; more than 5,000
examples of Pre-Columbian to 20th-century American Indian
art and artifacts, including basketry, ceramics, and
beadwork; and a large collection of American and European
prints, drawings, and photographs, including works by
Francisco de Goya, José Clemente Orozco, and Rico Lebrun.
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