June 12 - July 22
Nuts is the ongoing project of Scott Wolniak,
which he considers to be an unlimited edition.
With labor-intensive care, the artist crafts painted plaster replicas of
common shelled nuts. Based on a joke
about value in art, coupled with the surrealist notion that all things can
transform in the mind's eye, Wolniak takes great
care to produce accurate renderings of these rather dumb models. The pieces can function in a variety of
contexts, including art galleries, domestic spaces, or here, in this box! For Clutch, the plaster nuts have been
mounted like bobble-heads, onto small springs.
The nuts are looked down upon, and seem to be quivering or in
orbit with one-another. Clutch has also
been equipped with a bamboo floor as an additional piece of this installation.
Scott Wolniak is a multidisciplinary studio artist based in Chicago. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Chicago Reader, New City, and the Houston Chronicle, among others and is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Joan Flasch Book Art Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and many private collections. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago.
See more at http://scottwolniak.com/
Scott Wolniak is a multidisciplinary studio artist based in Chicago. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Chicago Reader, New City, and the Houston Chronicle, among others and is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Joan Flasch Book Art Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and many private collections. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago.
See more at http://scottwolniak.com/