Translations
Clutch Gallery
Chicago, IL
12 / 13 / 10 – 01 / 16 / 11
Clutch Gallery is pleased to present Translations by Tom Burtonwood. Translations explores color and plays with sequence. The piece is a color-blocked laser-cut accordion- folded paper work. At rest, it takes up the volume of Clutch; when expanded to its full length, it extends Clutch’s space 8 feet up. Each fold of the accordion is created from a series of negative spaces and colored planes that are revealed when the work is expanded. With each viewer, the work takes on a new shape depending on the amount of expansion the viewer gives the piece. This work is meant to be seen in many contexts and locations so that viewing is a different translation of the context and literally a translation of the planes in space. Translations runs through January 16, 2011.
http://clutchgallery.blogspot.com/2010/12/translations-by-tom-burtonwood.html