Spiraling Westward
I am back in Massachusetts purging and sorting as we prepare for Dan and Stella’s West Coast migration, but if I were in the Bay Area this week I would attend Joseph Smolinski’s opening at Swarm Gallery in Oakland on May 15. Am very curious to hear other people’s responses to Taking Back the Jetty (2009).
Almost exactly a year ago, Smolinski’s Tree Turbine debuted in the Badlands exhibition at Mass MoCA and I interviewed him for The Art Agenda. In the podcast, Smolinski talks about the work’s origins, and the process of working with students, curators and a fabrication team to realize his vision.
Tags: Environmental Art, Massachusetts, Oakland, Sculpture, Visual Art