Valerie Snobeck: American Standard Movement January 25, 2013

In a new site-specific installation near the Smart Museum's entrance, artist Valerie Snobeck re-uses construction material to open up broad questions about aesthetics, value, and the built environment. American Standard Movement centers on debris netting that was previously used in a building project on the on the University of Chicago's campus. Such netting serves a function--to catch debris let loose by construction activities--and also behaves as an aesthetic marker of the construction site itself. Snobeck's work takes this duality as a point of entry.