Between the sheets, The Full Moon Gallery, Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, CA 1996

Housepaint on windows.

The non-profit arts organization FAR (Foundation for Art Resources) had a temporary exhibition space on the corner of 5th and Hill Streets in downtown Los Angeles. The exhibition space comprised four display windows; the building was vacant and inaccessible to the public. I was asked to make an installation.

Since the work could only be viewed from the street and there were more vehicles than pedestrians, I decided to make the window itself a surface -- easily seen from a moving vehicle. Simultaneously, I wanted the piece to relate to the architecture of the building. Traditionally, a window draws boundaries while simultaneously granting visibility. I made a five-color composition, referencing the five existing vertical bars in the window. The paint was rolled onto the glass from the inside of the display. An unpainted sliver of glass, made the building interior visible if one stood close to the work.