Christine Corday : RELATIVE POINTS
18 JAN - 21 APR 2019. Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis
Exhibition is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Lisa Melandri, Executive Director.
Exhibition Sponsored by National Endowment of the Arts, Barrett Barrera Projects, Penny Pennington and Mike Fidler, Alexandria and Peter Strelow. Additional support is provided by Ann Ruwitch and John Fox Arnold.
Christine Corday combines the sciences with the fine arts to create a unique body of work that investigates the very stuff and definition of space and the universe. Her site-specific installation at CAM—Corday’s first solo show exhibited inside a museum—is anchored by RELATIVE POINTS, a twelve-piece installation of monumental works as well as the debut of a new hybrid, large-scale painting series, Primer Grey, Centers for Gravity. Each of the RELATIVE POINTS is fashioned through a cold-cast process compressing 10,000 pounds of elemental metal and metalloid grit into form. The sculptures will be placed in the gallery in a “non-random constellation” designed by the artist. The outer edges of the sculptures have various levels of permanence—with some of the surface layers eventually changing shape, sloughing off, or even crumbling as a consequence of subtle friction produced by visitor interaction. No matter what the construction and life of the works, Corday is insistent that each be touched by viewers, underscoring the importance of the human body in completing the work of art.
The Artist Talk is generously supported by the Robert Lehman Foundation.
Special thanks to Christopher Powers, Paul Henry McMahill, Jack Palmer, George Murello, and Jeff Hartz.
Exhibition Publication: Christine Corday: RELATIVE POINTS
Essays by Michael Govan, Lisa LeFeuvre, and CAMstl Director, Lisa Melandri
8 x 10 inches
86 pages
ISBN: 9780997736410
2019
