 |
 |
|
Collapsible suitcase-based
works, |
Variable Book
Constructions, 1982-95, Three site-specific
installations involving books. Pictured above, Variable
Book Construction (Bookmobile), 1991-95, San Jose Museum
of Art, San Jose, CA [more] |
|
 |
 |
|
Variable Construction
Altered by the Chance Rearrangement of My Living Room Furniture, 1971 |
Variable Cloth Constructions, 1965-72 Cloth and mixed media. Pictured above, Third Variable Construction, 1967 [more] |
|
 |
||
Drawings, one
person exhibit at Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco,
CA, 1970. Pictured above, Drawing
(To a Close). |
|
|
May's Variable
Constructions come in two forms: collapsible suitcase-based
works and installations whose structure changes based on manipulation
of ropes. The suitcase-based works date from 1965 with First
Collapsible Construction and reappear in 2006 and 2007,
with Small Case (Authorized Replica) and Thai
Inspired Portable Display Unit, a work specifically
designed for being hand-carried to and exhibited in Bangkok.
The installation-based work dates from 1967 with First
Hanging Variable Construction and culminates with Bookmobile in
1991, a work commissioned by the San Jose Museum of Art for the
foyer of their new building. The Variable
Constructions highlight many of the interests that
May has studied over the last forty years: architectural improvisation;
changing sculptural form and interaction; explorations of personal
history and abstraction; play in both its meanings as fun and
as theater; and modesty of materials. |
||