Bryan Nash Gill: Blow Down
Grand Staircase
January – August 2003
Bryan Nash Gill is an artist from New Hartford, Connecticut, who works in many media—installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking—to address issues about art, nature, artifice, and perception. Blow Down is a monumental relief, 40 feet tall, which will be installed against the Museum's elevator shaft wall. This sculpture is made from the bark of a single fallen tree, flattened and affixed to panels and mounted on a wall visible from both inside and outside the Museum. In this way, the sculpture operates in the territory where nature becomes architecture. Blow Down is accompanied by two other reliefs—spiral sculptures made of used chain saw blades that resemble the growth rings of trees. Curator Nick Capasso organized this show.
