An architectural intervention at The Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center
for the exhibition Mergers & Acquisitions, curated by Stuart Horodner
December 12, 2008 - January 25, 2009
The Mergers & Acquisitions exhibition consisted of a series of "calls and responses"—a mix of modern masters borrowed from local, private collections paired with new work by emerging artists.
Completed over a period of nine days, Boundary Issues was initiated as a response to a Bingo, 1974, a Gordon Matta-Clark photograph that documented his progressive removal of wall-sections from a building. Boundary Issues was created through a series of cuts and removals of the gallery walls: first, a framed partition wall was removed exposing a "wedge" of new gallery space previously enclosed as a storage room, then, lower portions of the sheetrock walls and framing were removed below a line of the exterior grade to reveal the existing masonry foundation walls and expose this sub-terranean condition to the interior and, finally, bricks were removed from an existing, previously closed, window opening where a single piece of frameless glass was reinstalled.
The piece engages the boundaries between art and architecture, between finish, structure and enclosure, and between being above and below grade. Doing so, it exposes a view of downtown Atlanta, as if it were a painting, into the interior of a gallery space that previously gave no indication of its location in the city.
