Date: 2025
Exhibition: “Holding Dappled Light” at Gallery 501 of the University of Alabama Birmingham Department of Art and Art History
Project Type: Solo Exhibition
Description: This series is a process-based, social project to make large scale video projections. During multi-generational art workshops, we play with drawing broken grids, assembling paper cubes, and other ways to deconstruct these geometric, rule-based, perfect shapes. At the end of the workshop, Brummund videos participants balancing handmade cubes in their hand. As I talk with each person, I place one imperfect cube on top of the next one. They grip, steady, and balance whatever they are given. At some point the pieces they are cradling are dropped or released. The video captures their effort, but you cannot see what they are holding. In contrast, the hands are projected in the studio onto a stack of cubes. Instead of seeing the cubes as something they are balancing, it is something that re-shapes the figure. The singular hands are further abstracted by the overlaying of multiple postures at once, picturing the common and distinctive in our experiences.
In this exhibition, the video is projected onto a series of black chiffon panels that fill the gallery. Two projectors cast the image from either end and meet in the middle. The projection moves from image to light as viewers walk between the layers. There are seven panels that reach twelve feet in the air. A series of artworks documenting the process line up on the other side of the gallery.
Artworks:
Holding Dappled Light, a two-channel video installation; black chiffon, video projection, participatory art process; 12’ x 10’ x 48’
Posture of Process, a series of two-dimensional, multi-media works; video stills printed with silk chiffon and vinyl; 40” x 30” each
Sculptures for Seeing Slowly, a series of participatory sculptures; clay, PLA, sand, gravel, vinyl, and jigsaw puzzles; 14” x 11” each
Additional Support: The Alabama State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, Arts & Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa
Related Projects: Grid Theory #, 98 Wentworth Street, 1000 Holt Avenue
