gwen charles

 

installation performance drawing & photography
Safety Kiosk, 2008

safety

"If you are not wearing a life jacket,

it's not going to save your life."

A temporary Safety Kiosk can be installed in the lobby of a building or outdoor space to hand out life jackets to protect the visitors from any possible danger that could occur. Part of the Safety series.

Presented at Jersey City Museum, NJ 2008 & Wassaic Projects,Wassaic NY, 2010
Above photo: Jersey City Museum, NJ 2008

Stillness, 2008

Above image: installtion view MANA Fine Arts

Stillness,  (2008) 12 min. color digital video & sound projection on loop edited by Gabriel Serrano
Installation with projection, handmade chiffon dress, baking soda

Batman waiting room, 2007-2009

batman1batman2

A collection of various magazines embellished with Batman masks and stacked on the table and magazine rack in a waiting area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mattress Parade & Bedding Circus, 2006

Drum roll please.
Mattress Parade and Bedding Circus marches down the avenue & performs their fantastical sheet tucking, forward bedrolls and pillow case flipping
all while keeping the ompha-pa beat.

Performed: Dietch Projects- Art Parade, NYC, 2006, Art in Odd Places, NYC, 2006, Art Without Words Family Day, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ, 2007

Green Connected, 1994


70 feet of green fabric sewn into a tube worn by two people on each end.

Performed on the streets of NYC 1994, 1995 and

Art in Odd Places, Lower East Side
NYC , Sept 2006

Wear This Out
A(d)dress

gaia, an environment for Creative Process, Oct, 2006 streets of Hoboken,NJ

 

Yellow Dress connected, 1994

“I am woman, a part of and the whole of the first circle, the circle that transcends space and time, the circle of women joined.” I am a woman by Ann Valliant

Six yellow dresses connect six women by the sleeves, as they dance together in a circle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exploding Closet, 2009

Red Glitter Storm, Part of the Exploding Closet series, 2009

Framed Digital print on archival silver-halide paper, 20" x 24"

On the way to a Fashion week event, I passed the art supply closet. The closet exploded spewing small objects onto me.

Amorphous Polymer cells, 2009


Cellular Meta-material 99
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Part of the Amorphous polymer cells series, 2009
Framed Digital print on archival silver-halide paper, 20" x 24"

 

Urban Altars, 2008

Double Dutch Bodhisattva, 2008

Digital print on gessoed wood panel,
part of the Urban Altars series