Inside/Outside: Shana McCaw + Brent Budsberg opening
Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg continue to explore scale, illusion, and the dialogue between interior and exterior space in an exhibition that focuses on combustion. The miniature wooden house that has been a recurring character in their narrative will make a ghostly, stripped-down appearance on the grounds of the sculpture garden as an outline of a foundation dug several inches into the cold wintry soil. During the opening, the artists will fill the trench with coals and set it alight, leaving a residue of ash in the shape of a house. This remnant will bear an uneasy resemblance to a series of burned or burning, charred and smoke-stained houses—sometimes no more than piles of rubble—captured in large-scale photographs in the gallery. McCaw and Budsberg exploit the photographic medium to create the illusion that these are images of real houses, real remains but subtle clues—scale conflicts, odd or impossible viewpoints, the miniature foundation outside—point to their fictional origin.
