Both Sides Now, with Dan Walsh
installation, Williams College Museum of Art collection, altered williams college furniture, found objects, cotton, thread, puffy paint, pompoms, acrylic on canvas, printed matter, social practice, 2016
Both Sides Now is a first-time creative collaboration by my brother, Dan Walsh, a minimalist abstract painter, and me, a socially engaged artist. We have come together to merge our practices around a shared interest in spectacle, perception, and encounters among objects and people. The result is a series of interactive sculptural stations—nodding to Rome’s Circus Maximus—which encourages new investigations and responses to WCMA’s collection. We were particularly interested in making spaces for engagement in the museum- moments for looking, discussion, playing, drawing, resting, acting, sewing and studying.
In the adjacent gallery we address our differing theories of contemporary art head-on through a series of oversized stitch samplers featuring the our ongoing, and at times contentious, call-and-response dialogue.