Wheel of Fortune
Anne Peabody
June 2010 – October 2010
in the Atrium Gallery
Exhibited in conjunction with the 2010 GAS (Glass Art Society) Conference
A site-specific installation by Anne Peabody commissioned for the 21c Museum, Wheel
of Fortune is a physical record inspired from the artist's memory of the
tornado that leveled much of Louisville on April 3rd, 1974. The work consists of
broken eggs, flashlights, dolls’ heads, turkey basters, and batteries made of wood
as well as found objects made of glass swirl together that form a massive funnel
cloud in 21c's Atrium Gallery.
Peabody made the carved wooden objects in Wheel of Fortune by hand and
has invited other carvers and wood turners (some of whom lived through the tornado
themselves), to contribute pieces for the installation. The found objects of glass
also include items given to the artist by friends and neighbors.
"I wanted to look at the clash between devastation and beauty, and the unexpected
consequences of disaster. I started from my own childhood memories of the 1974 tornado,
which left my house untouched but my neighborhood devastated and my yard filled
with other people’s possessions. While Wheel of Fortune grew out of events
in own my life, I want to speak to the experience of anyone touched by the bizarre
dislocations of calamity."
The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the 40th annual Glass Art Society
(GAS) conference occurring in mid June of 2010
About the Artist
Born in Louisville, Anne Peabody lives and works in Brooklyn and has exhibited internationally,
including at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. Since 2006, Peabody has been exploring
the idea of the hierarchy of objects and their use in recording a specific place
and time. Peabody received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Washington University in
St. Louis and her Master of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Art in New York City,
where she received an Alumni Thesis Award. Peabody is represented in numerous private
and public collections.
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in the Atrium Gallery
Exhibited in conjunction with the
2010 GAS (Glass Art Society) Conference
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