abstraction at work

As part of the "A Day in L.A.: Washington Blvd. Art Concert" on October 11, 2009, this site-specific performance makes visible the relationship between the inconspicuous language of lines found on the street for the purpose of signaling and demarcating, and lines used as compositional elements in the language of abstraction. Abstraction at Work is concerned with deterritorializing abstraction’s areas of operation, working to make abstraction’s work visible, including its own labor. The renewed visibility of lines also underscores an aesthetic experience of the city; lines communicate. Aware that abstraction has suffered from solipsism as much as seclusion, Abstraction at Work enters the public space, creating a plane for communication with pedestrians and the Washington Boulevard traffic.