December 30, 2007

Sculpture, Performance, and Video by Eric Drury

 

 

December 30, 2007  3:30 - 6:00 pm
205 Housatonic St., Lenox, MA 01240
tea, scones, champagne, and cherries jubilee
rsvp appreciated: scott@galleryboreas.com or (917) 743 6548

 

Eric Drury presents a new suspended paper sculpture at Gallery Boreas in Lenox. Uniquely patterned, intricate, hand cut, and hand glued, Drury’s work has won praise and criticism* in New York, Brooklyn, Milan, and at home in Pittsfield. The patterns of the paper and the overall visual effect offer artistic tribute to Islamic traditions, which are part of the artist’s ancestral heritage.

A critic* in New York last year referred to Drury as a “bad boy snowflake artist” (in a review that, well, we didn’t like). In homage to the bad boy spirit, Drury’s new work will stoke some bad boy behaviors as he introduces performance and video to his resume. Would he be so bad as to set a match to his own creation?

If the sculpture does not sell before 5:30 pm on December 30, Drury will perform and document the public burning of the sculpture. The art will no longer be offered as a sculpture, but as the video documentation. The price for the art will not change with the transfer to the video medium, nor will the inherent meaning and elegance of the art; a video as visually poetic as the original sculpture will survive.

Eric Drury is a Pittsfield-based artist who graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

Gallery Boreas is an international migratory contemporary arts promoter. It participates in art fairs and festivals around the world and hosts gallery exhibits and events at its base in Pittsfield and Lenox.

* Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City, January 30, 2006 http://artfagcity.com/?s=galleryboreas

practice performance documentation: Dec 30, 2007