Long Island Sundial
(June 21 -July 20 2007)
An Exhibit of Project
Drawings by Heidi Neilson
which envisions
Long Island City’s prominent Citibank tower as a gigantic sundial.
In a series of delicate drawings, Heidi Neilson maps out the path of the tower’s enormous shadow as it lengthens, shortens, and shifts over the course of a year. These drawings mark the launch of a yearlong project documenting the shadow’s dramatic changes as it stretches across city blocks. This public art project will develop over the coming year as the artist researches historical examples of monolithic sundials, collects information about community landmarks traversed by the shadow, and documents sundial-related phenomena on a blog, www.licsundial.net.
Heidi Neilson is an artist living in Long Island City. She has participated in residencies at the Lower East Side Printshop, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop, and the Kala Art Institute, and has exhibited at Exit Art, the International Center for Prints New York and The Drawing Center, among other venues. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute. For more information, visit www.heidineilson.com.
More
information about the project and images are available at
www.licsundial.net.
Roofs 16, From the 7, 2005. etching, 12 x 18 in.
Atlas of Punctuation displays the distribution of all end-of-sentence punctuation for 14 books. The punctuation for each book is consolidated to a single sheet, as if everything about the book except the punctuation was removed or made transparent, and then flattened to a plane. The books contained in the Atlas of Punctuation are representative literary classics that convey a quality of space and scale in the imagination.
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