STUDIO 9

Studio 9 is an ongoing project that prioritizes process and questions the finality of a work of art. It began in September 2011 in a studio in the American Industrial Building in San Francisco. Delicate copper wires were knotted and torqued into suspended shapes of volume. Over a period of three months, the direction of a light source was altered, and the sequence of shadows created by the forms were drawn across the walls in the studio. The work’s transformation was further explored through fragmentation and relocation by cutting out large portions of the wall. This piece was reinstalled at the Old Mint Building in San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley. The ongoing process of Studio 9 continues to shift in variation and translation as the cut pieces extend into new materials or connect to new locations. This open-ended work continues to re-invent itself, extending the concept of the private artist studio into new structures and public spaces.