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MARISA TESAURO

FIELD SKETCH

A SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION INSIDE UNIT DØA AT THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY

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4-25 APRIL 2004

DØA OPEN SAT-SUN 2:00P-6:00P AND BY APPOINTMENT

CLOSING RECEPTION SAT 24 APRIL 2004  2:00P-4:00P

THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY

232 THIRD ST CORNER THIRD AV GOWANUS BROOKLYN NY 11215  < MAP >

to Carroll St/Smith St    to Ninth St/Fourth Av    to Third St/Third Av

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artist's Statement  |  field sketch

There are many connotations of the word FIELD , generally used to describe a mass of land or a general category with sub-categories or components. A FIELD is many architectural spaces that become a city block, conglomerations in modern society or an undulating territory. This installation is about space, materiality and the process that brings them together to form a grassy FIELD.

The installation space, entirely white, is configured with banks of windows on two adjoining walls, anchoring the space in its urban context. Walls are of masonry and field stone, the floor of concrete. A large masonry pier grows vertically from the center of the space supporting an array of timber beams radiating outward, and forming a tree-like skeleton.

Translucent paper is the material used for its ideal qualities for developing and sorting ideas, and its ability to overlay existing ones. Repetitive, obsessive hand processes, including, rolling, folding and cutting shape the grassy texture that carpets the space.

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artist's PROFILE

Marisa Tesauro is an installation artist working in a wide range of materials. She received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 where she was awarded the Yvonne Force Award. Her work has been exhibited in several group shows at  the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001, and at Apartment 3 Gallery in Providence, RI in 2000.  The exhibition of Field Sketch completes her two-month long residency at The Old American Can Factory where Field Sketch was conceived and developed.

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