Previous Exhibitions
January 16 - February 14 2007 Lee Walton: When I Get There
(Sponsored by the Digital Technology and Cultural Club)
"Often regarded as an Experientialist, Lee Walton's primary concern is the creation of new experiences, either for himself or for others. Walton's work takes many forms- from drawings on paper, game/system based structures, video, web-based performances, public projects, theatrical orchestrations and more. At the core all of these projects are geared towards creating experiences of heightened awareness resulting in new perspectives, relationships and appreciation. Recently, Walton has been exploring many questions, from the idea of city inhabitants as planned, predictable and repetitious architectural elements to more formal concerns relating to compositions in space.
After a two-year affiliation with the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, Walton has received many accolades from Museum funded projects (Reykjavik Art Museum of Iceland, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art), public commissions (Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park) national and international exhibition venues (Kraushaar Gallery of NY, Island #6, China, Clubs Project Inc., Australia) and collections (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Lee Walton holds a MFA in visual arts from the California College of the Arts. His drawings are represented by Kraushaar Gallery in NY. Walton currently lives and works in both Brooklyn and San Francisco."
Statement
Lee Walton was invited to exhibit his work by the WSU-TC Digital Technology and Culture Club.
Before he arrived, he asked that students collaboratively select an object that would inspire the creation of the artwork in the exhibition.Two classes of students participated in the selection process and chose a ball of multi-colored yarn and a roll of sod.
When Lee arrived on Monday, January 15th, he was presented with two boxes, one containing the sod and the other the yarn. Instead of choosing one box or the other, Lee developed a system to select the box and therefore the object.
Five people would bowl two games each. The final scores would be added. If the number was even, the smaller of the boxes would be opened, if it was odd, the larger would be opened.
The sum of the ten games was 984 and thus, the smaller of the boxes was opened revealing the ball of yarn.
Object Exchange
Participants were asked to arrive at the exhibition opening with an object that was selected with the sincere intention of inspiring a fellow participant to do something.A “White Elephant” exchange took place and everyone received an object.
The objects will remained in the exhibition space for 3 weeks.
After 3 weeks, participants took their object from the exhibition space and did something that was in some way inspired by the object.They documented their action with one digital photograph and short text about the activity.
This documentation was collected and published as a book.
Images from the exhibition:
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