Concentrations 51: Mark Handforth

Start date: Friday, March 23, 2007
Event is ongoing: Until Sunday, September 23, 2007

Mark Handforth’s large-scale sculptures combine discarded industrial objects and furniture from the urban landscape with an inventive and playful sense of light, color, and form. Following a hurricane, the artist roamed the streets of Miami collecting the broken remains of the city. He proceeded to drag the bent signs, benches, and street lamps back to his studio to use as raw material for his giant assemblages or readymades. Eluding the categories of object, design, or furniture, Handforth’s sculptures bring new meaning to the texts and objects that map out the routines of our everyday lives and invite the viewer to reconsider the ways we engage with the built environment—what Ed Ruscha once called the “unreported facts” all around us.

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