B. Wurtz 2006
July 13, 2006- September 23, 2006
530 W 25th St
North Gallery
Relentlessly since the early 70s, through his assemblages,
double takes, sight gags, and slights of hand,
B. Wurtz has been helping
us recognize the flexible and expansive life of many of the mundane
materials and objects which fill our world. His keen mind-eye
coordination, deadpan wraparound thinking, and light touch illuminate
and imbue the functioning and/or dysfunctioning of such things as
produce nets, plastic bags, coat hangers, shoe laces, buttons, house
hold construction debris, packaging, obvious ideas, and utterly the most
basic art materials with a sprightly life that is at once a matter of
fact and poignant to the point of requiring reflection. Quiet,
intelligently humorous obviousness powers his hows and whys and whats,
reminding us that a similar magnification of form and function exists in
the world all the time, and that our slight adjustment of such things as
placement, context, or point of view may easily move us from the mundane
to the sparkle.
B. Wurtz was born in Pasadena CA in 1948, attended University of
California at Berkeley and California Institute of the Arts, and
currently lives in NYC.
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