BOB DAVIS ART

2001

Cenozoic

Installation

Decker/Morris Gallery, Anchorage, AK

with Kim Brown, Tom Jaleski and Hap Hollibaugh

Cenozoic was a complete reconfiguration of an old glassed-in ATM booth attached to the outside of a former bank building. Previous installations in this space were art placed inside the booth to be viewed from outside. We turned the booth itself into the art, covering it with wood slats, that you could peer between if you got right up to it (and glowing at night). Inside were jars of stuff with tiny labels, both difficult to see and difficult to place in context, thus frustrating the idea that the objects on display were the art, forcing the viewer to see the whole booth along with the objects, as the installation.