Gallery interior

Dream House: Clothes Pit

2008

Donated clothing, furniture, wood, drywall, night light

8’ x 8’ x 7’

As part of the group exhibition Temporal: Semiotics of Time and Place, curated by Joshua Smith, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor

Gallery interior

Gallery exterior, through the window

Dream House: Clothes Pit foregrounds the social aspect of art. The corner installation follows the natural triangular beam of light that falls through the gallery window. It consists of the artist’s personal clothing along with donated items that were cleaned at Mr. Stadium Coin Laundromat, filling the gallery with the familiar smell of fresh laundry. A small, cavernous space within the clothes pile is revealed only to viewers on street level. It houses a desk, drawer, notebook, lamp, night light, and mirror, further blurring the lines between public and private.”

— Curator Nadja Rottner’s wall label text for Andy T’s Urban Vision

Gallery exterior, under the pile

Other works that followed in this series were Dream House: Sculpture at Paint Creek Center for the Arts; Dream House: Box Full of Letters at Museum of New Art; Clothes Pit: Since You’re Gone at 2739 Edwin; and Clothes Pit: 7xs XL at Stamelos Gallery Center. Works that preceded this series were: Dream House at Detroit Industrial Projects;  and “I wanted to look out the window…” at the Kansas City Art Institute.