Floormap (Gallery), 2006, landscape cloth (12’ x 38’), one image from set of six 5” x 7” postcards

Using landscape cloth, I created a portable map of the gallery floor that was then moved around the walls and floors of the different rooms of the gallery then out onto the street in front of the gallery. It moved down the street to the neighborhood basketball court, into an empty superstore and, eventually, to my studio.

The portability of the drawing allowed me to take part of the gallery into the world and back to my studio. This work provokes direct questions about the relationship of the art world to the rest of the world and the amount of space devoted to or available for different activites such as shopping versus artmaking, basketball vs. exhibiting art. This project culminated in a series of six postcards available through the gallery and at the local drugstore.

Nancy Murphy Spicer