A Clean Sweep exhibition by Lucien Smith of brooms and Polaroids can be seen at The Suzanne Geiss Company. Motivated by the transformations of downtown New York during the reign of former mayor Rudolf Giuliani, Smith has assumed the task of documenting the relics of a bygone New York. The main gallery host a legion of freestanding brooms that inspire contradictory allusions. When grouped together, they are magicked into an anthropomorphized army. On the other hand, they recall the daily dirt and purge of the city. Sense-of-place readymades, the brooms were collected by Smith and his friends off the streets as they walked to the studio each morning.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:44:27 +0000
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