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January 2008 News

Jack Fischer Gallery at 49 Geary has taken seven Targets on consignment, which is great. Stop by there & check out those Targets & the other fascinating work that Jack has to offer.

Targets are also on show in Santa Fe at Underground Gallery until January 31st. And I have ended my relationship with the SFMOMA Artists Gallery. Thanks to them for all their support the last two years.

I've made a lot more Targets but haven't posted pictures of them here yet because I've been concentrating on selling art though my Etsy Store. Check it out.

Portland's Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery is relocating into a newly-renovated downtown building & is rebranding itself as the Museum of Contemporary Craft. These Target sculptures of mine got curated into their new [sales/consignment] Gallery. They asked for five Targets to begin with, so I got back into the studio in April & cranked out about 25 or so new ones, all of which I've posted below.

"Target 65" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 5.5” diameter

"Target 66" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 3.5” diameter

"Target 67" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7.5” diameter

"Target 67-B" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7.5” diameter

"Target 61" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 6.5” diameter

"Target 62" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 7.5” diameter

"Target 63" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 9.5” diameter

"Target 64" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 9” diameter

"Target 56" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 3” diameter

"Target 57" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 5” diameter

"Target 58" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 7” diameter

"Target 59" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 6.5” diameter

"Target 60" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 5” diameter

"Target 52" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 8.5” diameter

"Target 53" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 9.5” diameter

"Target 54" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 7” diameter

"Target 55" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 6” diameter

"Target 55-B" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 6” diameter

"Target 49" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7” diameter

"Target 49-B" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7” diameter

"Target 50 aka Union" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 12” diameter

"Target 51" - 2007
Unwound / rewound paper dartboard; 5.5” diameter

"Target 45" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 8” diameter
Collection of Margaret MacLeod

"Target 46" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 8” diameter

"Target 47" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 10” diameter

"Target 48" - 2007
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 8” diameter

SFMOMA Artists Gallery Show

Here below are 12 new Targets I made in late May for the "Beyond Boundaries" group show at SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason. The show ran through June 30th, 2006. Altogether there were 22 pieces in the show, mostly new.

"Target 28" - 2006
Unwound/rewound dartboard; 18” diameter"Target 31" - 2006
Unwound/rewound dartboard; 20” diameter"Target 29" - 2006
Unwound/rewound dartboard; 10” diameter

"Target 33" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 9” diameter
Collection of Judith Burke
"Target 34" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 9” diameter
"Target 35" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 6.5” diameter

"Target 36" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 6” diameter
"Target 39" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 6.5” diameter
"Target 40" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 9.5” diameter

"Target 41" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 13” diameter
"Target 42" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 15” diameter

"Target 43-A" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 11” diameter
"Target 43-B" - 2006
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 11” diameter

In The Studio

Here are some dartboards in my studio, waiting to be unwound:

"Target 2004.22" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 8" diameter

"Target 2004.21" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 8" diameter

"Target 2004.20" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 10" diameter

"Target 2004.19" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 8" diameter

"Target 2004.18" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7.5" diameter

"Target 2004.17" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 6" diameter

"Target 2004.16" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7.5" diameter

"Target 2004.15" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 8" diameter

"Target 2004.14" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 11" diameter

"Target 2004.13" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 12" diameter

"Target 2004.12" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 10.5" diameter

"Target 2004.11" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 10" diameter

"Target 2004.10" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7.5 diameter

"Target 2004.8" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 9" diameter

"Target 2004.7" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 9" diameter

"Target 2004.6" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7.75" diameter

"Target 2004.5" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 6" diameter

"Target 2004.4" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 8.5" diameter

"Target 2004.3" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7" diameter

"Target 2004.2" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 9" diameter

"Target 2004.1" - 2004
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7” diameter

Eventually my titling system proved to be completely useless, so I switched to another badly-thought-out titling system, starting over from 1 at the beginning of 2004, hence: 2004.1, 2004.2, etc as you will see in the images above. This system only lasted through 2004 & from the beginning of 2005 on, I switched to a straight number system: Target 23, Target 24, and so on.

"Target Yellow & Black 3" - 2003
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 16.75" x .75"

Another oddity of these pieces is that, like an lp, there is a reverse side, with a unique pattern. For the sake of sanity, I almost never document both sides of a Target. I choose my own favorite side & photograph it, but curators & buyers are free to do whatever they want with these. They can display either side, stand them up to display both, etc. Bob Callaway owns one & he told me he pushed the center up so the piece is now conical. That's cool.

Anyway, here is a rare instance where I documented both sides of a piece. Here above is "Target Yellow & Black 3" and below is its reverse side. Color balance is off in the bottom image, sorry.

"Target Yellow & Black 3 reversed" - 2003
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 16.75" x .75"

"Target Yellow & Black 2" - 2003
unwound/rewound dartboard; 9.5" x .5"

Mainly I hang these on the wall. I usually leave a hole in the center & just put a black finish nail in the wall, hang the Target right on the nail. But sometimes I've shown them as free-standing floor pieces, or laying down on the floor. They are pretty versatile.

"Target Black & White 2" - 2003
Unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 7.25" x .75"

"Radiant Black & White 1" - 2003
unwound/rewound dartboard; 9.5" x .75"

"Radiant Red & White 2" - 2003
unwound/rewound paper dartboard; 6.75" x 3/4

"Radiant Red 1" - 2002
unwound paper dartboard; 18.5"x3/4"

This was one of the ur-targets, the first one I unwound to make a sample for Jay Jensen. Eventually I re-made this into 3 other smaller Targets.

"Radiant Red & White 1" - 2003
unwound/rewound dartboard; 8.5 x .75

I liked this piece so much I really wanted to make another one, but I didn't get a chance until 2001 when Jay Jensen of the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawai'i was thinking about spending some Wallace Alexander Gerbode award money on me. At his request, I made a couple more of these & sent him photos. He did eventually buy one for the museum.

Now, I left my original piece in situ when the symposium was over, so I had never rolled it up again. When I was making samples for Jay, I had to roll them up after photographing them - and of course to ship him the one he bought. So it was a surprise to me to find out that these were also pretty cool when they were re-wound.

I couldn't rewind them nearly as tightly as they'd originally been wound by machine, so the painted scoreboard patterns quickly degraded in a kind of spiralling away, like smoke from a chimney.

And after awhile, a sort of reversal of the pattern would occur: I think it's sort of the same phenomenon as automobile wheels looking like they're rotating in reverse when the car is going forward. Clicking on the "Target Radiant Red & White 1" image above illustrates this best.

"We Have Proven We Can Prove It" - 1996
Unwound paper dartboard; dimensions variable, this one is approx 20' x 20'

In 1996 I was participating in Mapovani Prostoru (Mapping Space), a symposium organized by Helena Hrdlickova, then director of Galerie u Bileho Jednorozce (the White Unicorn Gallery), the civic gallery of the Bohemian city of Klatovy. The symposium was held on the grounds of Hrad Klenova (Klenova Castle), about 20km away.

One day I found a paper dartboard in a second-hand shop & realized that it could be unwound into a spiral. I quickly did just that, on the third story floor of an 18th-century tower of the castle. The result was even cooler than I'd imagined: it looked very much like a topographical map & it looked great in that room. This is one of my favorite installations ever, because it was so simple but resonated on lots of frequencies.

Title is a bizarre election-time slogan of a political party, from a roadside billboard outside Klatovy.