Friday, March 2, 2007

2/6/2002: Gary Smoots' Iced Wiener Dogs

On Tuesday Feb 12, Gary Smoots' "Wiener" returns with Iced Wiener Dogs.

Last year, Party Vocano attended "Wiener I" in which the Pound Gallery filled up with balloon wiener dogs.

"Wiener II & III" promises to be literally cooler. Instead of balloon wiener dogs, Smoots has 300 ice wiener dogs which will roll down a conveyor belt, then drop on the floor and die a melting death on the floor.

Party Volcano is so there!

The University of Washington Ceramics Department CMA Gallery Presents:
"Wiener II & III": an installation by Gary Smoot

February 12th - 22th, 2002

Opening Reception
Tuesday, February 12th, 2002
6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Location:

The CMA Gallery is located in the University of Washington Ceramics
Department Building at 4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive, east of the main
campus and across N.E. 45th Street from University Village.

Map link: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&address=4205+Mary+Gates+Memorial+Drive&city=Seattle&state=WA&zipcode=&homesubmit.x=48&homesubmit.y=10


Gallery Hours: Mondays – Fridays, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

“Wiener II & III” is the latest addition to the installation series by Gary
Smoot, started last year with the exhibition of “Wiener” at The Pound Gallery
in Seattle. While “Wiener” lofted latex pups into an artificial sky, the
next two chapters inflect whimsy with pathos to introduce a bit more gravity.

“Wiener II” consists of a meticulous array of black and white photographs
clinically documenting the ephemeral remnants from the original performance
of “Wiener.” Each portrait freezing in time a unique and subtle variation of
decay.

During the opening reception (starting around 6:30 p.m.,) “Wiener III” will
be installed. A multitude of molded ice wiener dog balloon animals will be
removed from cold storage and placed one by one on a slowly moving conveyor
belt. The wieners will parade along the conveyor until each meets its
inevitable end, becoming part of a grand melting heap in the center of the
gallery floor. A video documentation of the process as well as video from
the original “Wiener” will be on display during regular gallery hours.

Other works previously exhibited by Gary Smoot include: “Wiener,” November
2000, at The Pound Gallery, “My 7th Grade,” at the COCA NW Annual 2001, in
which ping pong balls with the faces of his smiling childhood classmates
delicately balanced atop loaded mousetraps, “Baited,” 1999, an installation
of gigantic mouse traps featuring cheese baby bait,” and “Moving Self
Portrait,” 1998, a randomly rearranging self portrait (both at Pound.) Gary
has also designed numerous sets for theater including: “Happy?,” 1999, with
The Compound at Consolidated Works and several productions with Circle X
Theatre in Los Angeles, most notably “Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22,”
1998, for which received the Theater L.A. Ovation Award for set design.

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