Axe Me If I Care
Scott Wayne Indiana’s “Waiting Room” at the Portland Art Center
ultra likes artist Scott Wayne Indiana. You’ve seen his name recently either because of the delicious controversy over his modification of a coffee table book on Liz Taylor’s jewelry collection for TJ Norris’ grey|area show at Guestroom and because of the notice for his horsies. He now has a team of cowboys and girls deployed to attach all manner of inanimate horse (mostly of the plastic, eight-year-old-girl variety) to the iron rings embedded in PDX sidewalks for just such a purpose. Keep an eye peeled.
Indiana regaled us with the difficulties of embedding axes in ceilings when we saw him at the opening of the Oregon Biennial. He also talked about his upcoming curatorial effort, inCLOVER (more soon on this one-day visual art exhibition in a park in SE Foster-land). But we’re interested in his installation “Waiting Room” that opens tomorrow eve at the Portland Art Center (32 NW 5th). 39 axes embedded in a 12 foot high ceiling. We dare you.
See also: our beloved poet, David Abel and the sound installation, “Eclipse,” he’s created with Liminal’s John Berendzen AND “Focus Group,” an installation by Houston.
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