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Article: Spencer Finch at Postmasters.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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This was a breakthrough exhibition for conceptually minded Spencer Finch, whose quirky works incorporate science-related themes. Finch's drawings, paintings and sculptures were grouped around the theme of "up"--works involving skies, stars and jet streams, for instance, but also studies of water stains on the artist's ceiling and an attempt to capture, in a drawing, the smell inside a flying Airbus 340. When you entered the gallery, you first saw a square piece of green AstroTurf on the floor, upon which were scattered several red apples. Every five minutes, an apple thudded to the floor from an overhead apparatus, to make a vivid red-and-green sculpture that had a ...