Viewpoints in Spaces: Installations by Colby Brewer
Our featured artist today is Colby Brewer! Colby creates sculptural installations that attempt to challenge our viewpoints in spaces, particularly spaces we can interact with.
Sawed, two saws, one cut by the other
Like some of our other installation artists, Colby maintains a mixed studio practice, frequently drawing and collaging as well as sculpting. His Objects series features everyday items, for example ladders that have been placed in strange interactions with related devices such as measuring tapes – or in one case, taken apart and reconfigured into an abstract wall installation.
wRonGsiDe, neon, steel, aluminum
This sense of bizarre interaction is present in other objects such as two saws - one whose handle has been cut in half by the other. I also love Hammered, a sculptural piece featuring two hammers, one destroyed by a blow from the other. In Colby’s Sites gallery, I see some really great examples of interactive art, be that a piece that comes with instructions for viewing it, or an installation of nets in a gallery that encourages viewers to tie their own shoelaces onto it.
