He Chutes He Scores, the Center for Contemporary Art, Sept 27, 2013

 

Please join me on Friday, September 27, 6 – 8pm, at the Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, NJ, for a solo exhibition:

Will Hutnick: He Chutes He Scores

 

The Center for Contemporary Art

2020 Burnt Mills Road

Bedminster, NJ 07921

ccabedminster.org

 

Opening:  Friday, September 27, 6 – 8pm

September 16 – October 19, 2013

 

When I was a kid, I used to go to my cousins’ house and create what I called “Toy City”, a what-seemed-to-be endless arrangement and maze of toys and action figures.  Some objects were balanced on top of one another, almost to the point of collapse, while others were strategically placed to be humorous or functional (for the wooden trains and micro-machines to pass by, of course).  The environment was intricate, hilarious, constructed yet somewhat natural, and would change configurations with every installment over the course of a few years.

As much as I was building a world, there was a lingering notion that perhaps I wasn’t creating this city as much as I was uncovering it.

My work is a series of physical challenges and a form of object investigation.  Employing chance operations with an emphasis on process and materiality, I am interested in the phenomenon of facilitating work to occur.  How can a work invoke the feeling of being impermanent while actually being a physical, static object?  Through experimentation and play, I discover images and networks that seem to be previously established and self-evident.  I attempt to investigate this transitional moment of discovery and potential, the moment where a work reveals itself to me.