Colaborative Stacks
Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 11:46PM Stacks
SeaChi Projects
artists Teresa Getty & Camille Silverman
February 2019- ongoing project
The idea of the stacked project was a simple process that began as each mailed works back and forth every month. Dutifully working pages and surfaces with gestures, mark, color and what was thought were basic ideas of subtraction and addition. Almost a month into process the coming of the Corona virus pandemic made the diary of stacks seem even more vital as individuals internationally began to work, like us, in an isolated fashion from their homes and studios. Immediately, this distance, Camille in Chicago and Teresa in Seattle, began mimicking how everyone was working, trying to work together but at varying distances. Figuring out how to manage a collaboration without being in close proximity. Each stack was a bit of guesswork to how each artist was proceeding or interpreting their next moves.
The stacks were at first one sided and read like a book, then everything became double sided, then some moved towards sculpture. Now again everything wiggles the work around and around as the artists consider the viewer and the ultimate site of installation. The stacks continue to reshuffle into form and formlessness. This morphing was there in the beginning and continues to define the work. Continues to be transported and transported until it rests in a site and will reshuffle when transported from space to space. Teresa began to call them our litter of puppies, forever mischievous and unruly.
initial drawings by SeaChi artist Teresa Getty, 2019
dimensions vary
Stack #3, 2021
paper, paint, pencil and string
17"x14", dimesions can vary upon installation
Stack #5, 2021
paper, paint pencil and string
27"x15", dimesions can vary upon installation
Slliding Stack #1, 2022
paper, paint, pencil, photocopy and string
34"x20", dimesions can vary upon installation
Slliding Stack #2, 2022
paper, paint, pencil, photocopy and string
34"x20", dimesions can vary upon installation
Horizontal Stack #1, 2022
paper, paint, pencil, photocopy and string
36"x21", dimesions can vary upon installation