11.29.2006
Person of the Month: Phoebe Washburn
Phoebe Washburn is a New York based artist who uses recycled materials found on local loading docks and in alleyways. With her collected detritus, she creates post-minimalist constructions that appear as swells of urban refuse. Washburn, who received her M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts and her B.F.A. from Tulane University, refers to her work as "spontaneous architecture," emphasizing a bipolar urge to merge the accidental and the intentional.
For Seconds of Something, her 2004 installation at P.S. 1, she used recycled newsprint painted with mistint (custom mixed color paint rejected by the consumer). Days of the week were assigned their own color so that each hue identifies the day, tracking the relationship between time and the amount of paper mass discarded.
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Very pretty, but extremely reminiscent of the assemblages that David Mach was doing with found cast-offs during the '70s and '80s. See for yourself:
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