Leah Garnett, Sackville artist and Mount Allison University teacher in the department of Fine Arts, considers the aesthetic spaces of landscape, architecture and how we move through and live in places, past and present. The architectural narrative in Garnett’s installation, When One Space Meets Another, draws on her memories of her childhood of playing around construction sites in the forest behind her father’s woodshop in Maine and chosen artistic career path (Leah Garnett, October 11, 2017).
The project began in 2012 in the woods in Maine. Garnett transposed the floor plan of the upper room in the Owens Art Gallery into this natural landscape. She meticulously measured the location in the woods, delineated the gallery walls using pink construction tape attaching it to trees at specific points. The viewing path was constructed using scraps of planks. This abstract ‘forest gallery’ was brought back and setup into the Owens Art Gallery space. The installation contained furniture, …show more content…
Claire Bishop article explained installation art creates a situation into which the viewer physically enters, and insists that you regard this as a singular totality.” (Claire Bishop, 2005, p 6). Respectively, Garnett’s use of raw re-used building material collected from a junkpile involves an emphasis of ‘real’ materials rather than their depiction or illustration. “The associational value of found materials – which had been used in the 1960s and 1970s to connote ‘everyday life’ (Kaprow), ‘low culture’ (Oldenburg), or ‘nature’ (Thek) – were by the 1982 harnessed for the sensuous immediacy, but as a way in which to subvert our ingrained responses to the dominant repertoire of cultural meanings,” explained Bishop. “This strategy remains the prevailing mode of articulating ideas in contemporary installation art” (Bishop, p.
The project began in 2012 in the woods in Maine. Garnett transposed the floor plan of the upper room in the Owens Art Gallery into this natural landscape. She meticulously measured the location in the woods, delineated the gallery walls using pink construction tape attaching it to trees at specific points. The viewing path was constructed using scraps of planks. This abstract ‘forest gallery’ was brought back and setup into the Owens Art Gallery space. The installation contained furniture, …show more content…
Claire Bishop article explained installation art creates a situation into which the viewer physically enters, and insists that you regard this as a singular totality.” (Claire Bishop, 2005, p 6). Respectively, Garnett’s use of raw re-used building material collected from a junkpile involves an emphasis of ‘real’ materials rather than their depiction or illustration. “The associational value of found materials – which had been used in the 1960s and 1970s to connote ‘everyday life’ (Kaprow), ‘low culture’ (Oldenburg), or ‘nature’ (Thek) – were by the 1982 harnessed for the sensuous immediacy, but as a way in which to subvert our ingrained responses to the dominant repertoire of cultural meanings,” explained Bishop. “This strategy remains the prevailing mode of articulating ideas in contemporary installation art” (Bishop, p.