11.22.2013
11.15.2013
My WHEEL OF TIME is featured in the middle of Annual Report 2012 from the Garrison Institute
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| My art THE WHEEL OF TIME is in the middle with all the people at the opening |
the Ladies from above to show the pattern -- and as the weather becomes cold and all that is left is a vestige.
old and now a vestige. November 5th, 2013
and later at 3pm I finish putting on the grass collar -- making the MAIDENS OF THE LAKE.
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| now the MAIDENS are together all wearing their grass collar |
I carried the idea of making a work on the Hudson River and use mug-wart which is fine -- to Wisconsin at Big Cedar Lake where there is Coreopsis palmate that is fine also, this October 2nd
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| the twelve groupings of coreopsis palmate are in place |
COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS Saunders Farm 2013 -- catalogue essay on Roy Staab and his environmental site installation SKYBOW
Collaborative Concepts @ Saunders Farm catalogue is out....and the last page that features art is the ECOARTSPACE COMMISSION INSTALLATION with an essay by Amy Lipton "...creating a perfect line drawing in space. The position of this centenary line was determined by the tall trees at either end. Suspended between the trees, the line moves gracefully as wind blows in the treetops, while the surroundings say stationary.
COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS Saunders Farm 2013 -- catalogue essay on Roy Staab and his environmental site installation SKYBOW
Skybow, 2013 was created by
Roy Staab over a period of ten days beginning
on August 20th. Based in
Wisconsin, Staab has traveled the globe for 30
years to make his elegant
works in natural settings, which are first and
foremost created in response
to the specific sites. He had the difficult task
of choosing his location
just weeks ahead for Saunders Farm without the
usual time he needs to
survey the landscape. He chose the pond, as he
prefers to work in the water
for its movement and reflective surface as a
backdrop. The pond at
Saunders is also a favored spot for a herd of Black
Angus cows that roam freely,
the edge was trampled and the vegetation
was far from pristine. The
water had an unpleasant odor, was brownish-
green and not at all
transparent but Staab was determined to use this
location; he thrives on a
challenge and wanted to traverse the entire span
of the pond with a suspended
work.
Staab decided to make a 300
ft. long arc to cross the horizontal length
of the pond creating a
perfect line drawing in space. The position of this
catenary line was determined
by tall trees at either end. Suspended
between the trees, the line
moves gracefully as wind blows in the treetops,
while the surroundings stay
stationary.
Staab’s works always make
use of accessible organic materials found on
site. In this area it was
wild weeds - mugwort, goldenrod and reeds, which
he tied together with jute
using an armature of sessile bailing twine. He
then painstakingly lays out
the material to create the line, working quickly
with precision and taking
good weather and sunlight to his advantage.
Being inventive, Staab
borrowed a bow and arrow and shot the twine
across the pond in order to
suspend it between the trees. This attempt
failed. He then tried the
more difficult task of throwing a string with a
weighted rock, which took
many tries but succeeded. On the opposite side
of the pond he climbed a 40
ft. tall tree to attach the line but the weight
of the length was the next
engineering problem to tackle. The suspended weeds dry
out and shrink and the knots
he makes in the jute made it tighter
but the line stretched out
which caused it to sag. Eventually he achieved his
desired length and height of
the line to create a visual tension centered in
the middle of the pond -
away from the appetite of the cows.
A few days after the work
was completed the curved line was hovering at
its lowest point, nearly
touching the water after the rain. It swayed and
danced in the wind just
above the surface. This is the effect Staab most
desires when Nature
contributes to the beauty of his art. His works are
in and of their environment,
as opposed to being about site or space.
They are not placed into a
new context from which they are made, but
created in the setting,
inseparable from it and only subtly distinctive. When
accomplished Staab studied
Skybow from all angles and the changing light
during different times of
the day. He then set up his camera and tried to
capture all of this in a
perfect shot.
Staab intends for his
ephemeral artworks to decompose slowly as in all of
nature. The continual
changes of weather, wind and the toll of time will
eventually cause their
demise. The fresh green materials begin to wilt and
turn dry and brown; showing
the process of life and death and the cycle of
all living things.
Amy Lipton
Curator ecoartspace
ART ON THE FARM AND OUT IN THE OPEN -- the Phillipstown.info [Cold Spring, N.Y.] newspaper November 14, 2013
Art on the Farm and Out in the Open
October 9, 2013
Contemporary sculpture installations on view at Saunders Farm through
Oct. 26
By Amy Lipton
11.14.2013
almost the HUDSON MAIDENS
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| the Hudson River at high tide, 9:30, September 16th, at Little Stony Point, Cold Spring New York |
my work-on-paper for the exhibition WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE.
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| BLACK MORNING GLORY for the lost solders |
Sculptures Big and Small, and All in the Open
‘The Farm Project 2013,’ at Saunders Farm in Garrison
By SUSAN HODARA
Published: September 13, 2013
Over the years, Collaborative Concepts has been able to provide more assistance to “Farm Project” artists, including the use of a crane and, in some cases, financing. This year, a new collaboration with ecoartspace, a bicoastal nonprofit that supports artists who address environmental issues, enabled the Milwaukee-based artist Roy Staab to travel to Garrison and build his installation “Suspended Bow.”
Occupying a small clearing, “Suspended Bow” is a 300-foot leafy chain woven from mugwort, goldenrod and reeds that hangs between two trees to form a catenary curve over a muddy pond. Securing the piece required Mr. Staab, 72, to climb one of the trees. “I had to shimmy up and down like a 12-year-old,” he said.
The work is perpetually in flux. In the rain, it becomes heavy, sometimes touching the pond’s surface. When the sun shines, it carves a striking reflection across the water below. As the weeks pass, it will dry out and become brittle, its hue changing from sage green to brown. “That’s the scary thing,” Mr. Staab said. “We’re using life, and then life turns to death.”
first photographs of SKYBOW from the back of the pond near the tall thin tree where this side is attached.
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| This is right after it was attached to that far tree on Monday August 26th. I was in the top of the tree, Peter and Herman pulled and pushed to get it up in place. |
SKYBOW on Tuesday afternoon August 27th about 2:30 in the afternoon. while the New York Times was looking a the works in below fields I went up to check my work and then make this video.
SKYBOW a site specific installation sculpture made for the 'cow' pond by Roy Staab, completed August 26, 2013. This is the next day, in the afternoon after a night of heavy rain. This art is part of the COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS EXHIBITION on Saunders Farm, Garrison, New York. opening reception is Saturday August 31st, 2 - 6.
the 'cow' pond at Saunders Farm August 3rd
choosing the pond for the 2013 Collaborative Concepts Farm exhibition -- first look
11.13.2013
as I was encouraged to leave, I had one more work to make. PAMET POINTING OUT...Pamet Harbor, Truro, Cape Cod
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| in the early morning near high tide -- calm and before the boats |
and the biggest surprise of all the summer was the Provincetown Banner came an photographed and publish my free public work
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| YES! The whole back page of the front section. WOW! |
Peter Schlemowitz went to Art Omi to see what my ephemeral work looks like -- TRIANGLE...what is left is one line now
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| like a SAMURAI SWORD |
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| and originally in 2008 OMI Triangle |
William Anderson photograph of CHIRAL FORMATION and the two stages of dismantling the work -- to see what variations can take place. July 15 & 16, 2013
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| William Anderson's photograph July 6th |
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| in the state of changes July 15th |
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| the last phase July 16th and then good bye an empty pond |
teaching installation to art teachers at the Lynden Sculpture Garden
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| the making of 'installation with the art teachers |
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| the piece finished after the students left |
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| a week or so after when the grass grew and the work is part of the land |
me, Roy Staab in front of my work at the Museum of Wisconsin Art
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| a month later the museum purchased this piece |
opening of the New MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART. and my work on the wall in the first room - modern & contemporary
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| my work is the large one centered on the wall |
the second work of mine that the Milwaukee Art Museum has that I went to see January 4, 2013 is a Cibachrome print of a 1991 installation made in Milwaukee
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| in their collection -- a very ephemeral drawing on the shore of Lake Michigan on the edge of Shorewood & Milwaukee |
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