If you've been over to jenbandinipaintings.com recently, you've seen that I added some new work. The short title for this is Box in a Bag, but the full title is Box in a Bag: the First Year in New York, 2006-2007. They are an edition varie of twelve, consisting of prints, stickers, photos, objects, and artifacts from a year of my life contained in wooden boxes in screen printed linen bags. I began making them last summer during a very dark time, a time when all I wanted was to instill meaning back into my work. After a year of trolling the galleries of New York, searching for something that inspired me, and not finding much, I turned to museums and the library where I work, which owns a later edition of Duchamp's Boite en Valise, a mini-museum of the artist's work. For my box, I curated a collection of objects created specifically for the box, which reference the major events and themes of my first year living in New York. Interestingly, this blog also chronicled this time in words, so the box is somewhat a visual representation of escape to new york.
