blackbird online journal spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

 

SHEILA PEPE | Shrink

This is just after that in 2000, "Shrink," at Zilkha, and these are industrial rubber bands and crocheted cotton cord in the window.

There's a kind of expanded domesticity to this. The idea of "Shrink" was to shrink the size of the Zilkha Gallery. That's kind of a joke, because it's this big modernist space that I felt a little bit at odds with.

I didn't quite shrink it, but borrowing from the color of the walls, these industrial rubber bands made for some kind of interesting drawing in space.