The Indeterminate Length - Installation by Mike Calway-Fagen January 21, 2012

Mike Calway-Fagen
The Indeterminate Length
January 20 - February 25, 2012
Opening Reception
Friday, January 20, 6 - 10 PM
Closing Reception and Catalog Release
Saturday February 25, 6 - 10 PM
Good Citizen is pleased to present The Indeterminate Length, an expansive sculptural installation and billboard project by Mike Calway-Fagen.
For The Indeterminate Length, Mike Calway-Fagen will incorporate sculptural installation techniques and photography to explore the nature of time experienced and actual: the incomprehensible indefiniteness of change. Discarded bits of furniture, chairs, tables, shelves, stools, bricks, rocks, and other provocative objects, pulled from alleys and lots around St. Louis will be stacked and arranged atop a similarly collected carpeting. The construction will form a shifting scaffold that is frozen in time. The edifice of objects will undergo several reorganizations during the course of the exhibition. With each subsequent arrangement an impression will be left in the carpet, accumulating an index of the prints left behind. Further exploring the sense of time, Calway-Fagen has designed the show cards for the exhibition as a small work of art. Visitors are encouraged to take away the card and see it as something fleeting but specific, freezing a moment in time but maintaining a sense of preciousness.
Mike Calway-Fagen has shown across the country and abroad in venues such as Gazelli Art in London, the southXeast Biennial in Florida, QED Gallery in Los Angeles, Vox Populi and the ICA in Philadelphia, Islip Art Museum and Mixed Greens in New York, Banff Center in Alberta Canada, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Sculpture Space, and others. In 2008 he received Tennessee's Individual Artist Grant. His work has been reviewed in such magazines as Art Papers, ArtUS, and World Sculpture Magazine. He received a BFA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2006 and is currently finishing his MFA at the University of California in San Diego. He is represented by Gazelli Art in London.
More of Mike Calway-Fagen's work can be seen at mikecalway-fagen.com

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