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Nancy Murphy Spicer – more than momentary: ENJOY

Installation shots from Preview Thursday 5.11.2015Hanging Drawing (20 successive drawings, unique and unrehearsed), 2015, lead, rubber, acrylic, hardware, dimensions variable
Hanging Drawing (20 successive drawings, unique and unrehearsed), 2015, lead, rubber, acrylic, hardware, dimensions variable

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More than momentary: ENJOY, 2015 Installation view with 21 drawings.

More than momentary: ENJOY, 2015 Installation view with 21 drawings. (gesso, gouache and acrylic with collage on rice paper)

 

more than momentary: ENJOY alters the typical path of artwork from studio to gallery to collector by offering voluntary participants the opportunity to borrow and spend extended time with the work BEFORE the exhibition. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde’s ideas about art as a gift, I offer this time with the work as a gift, as a way of opening up the possibilities for relating to the work in a way that is more than momentary. The choice of the wordENJOY in the title refers to the secondary meaning of the word: “to possess or benefit from.”

Nancy Murphy Spicer, 2015

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Disrupted Drawing Large, 2015, gesso, gouache and acrylic with collage on rice paper,

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Disrupted Drawing, 2015

 

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Hanging Drawing, participatory performance, 2015