Recent Works and Editions
Editions evolve as elements of installations or are conceived as limited edition multiples. The process is about discovering new materials, methods and techniques for making unique artworks or limited editions. Since our earliest collaborations, editions and limited edition multiples form the core of our practice, drawing from the traditions of livres d’artistes, Duchamp’s readymades, and Fluxus.
The Persistence of Truth 2020
Recent works and editions
Editions evolve as elements of installations or are conceived as limited edition multiples. The process is about discovering new materials, methods and techniques for making unique artworks or limited editions. Since our earliest collaborations, editions and limited edition multiples form the core of our practice, drawing from the traditions of livres d’artistes, Duchamp’s readymades, and Fluxus.
Borrowed Time
Borrowed Time (2023) Edition of 4. a quartet of four wall clocks representing Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern time zones of the continental United States. Inspired by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ annual Doomsday Clocks, the artists altered Staples wall clocks to countdown the climate crisis in seconds. News cycle images flicker and alternate between bucolic before and devastating after images of drought, wildfire, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
Listen To The Material
Listen To The Material (2021) Movements 1-4 music boxes in walnut and maple with music based on textile artist Anni Albers’ designs.
Music scrolls relate to punch cards; punch cards relate to the Jacquard loom; the Jacquard loom relates to weaving; weaving relates to Anni Albers and Ruth Asawa at Black Mountain College; for us it all relates back to data visualization.\
The Essential Doesn't Change. Nothing To Be Done.
The Essential Doesn’t Change. Nothing To Be Done. (2020) Edition of 5. Comprised of a pair of glass globes on lacquered bases, the edition revisits a recurrent form in our collaborative work – the form of a snow globe. In this latest iteration, the vessels are no longer filled with water but are instead filled with sand, a choice of materials that alters and transforms them to suggest hour glasses or astronomical instruments.
And Then...
And Then… (2019) Ever since we started working with ice sculptures, we’ve searched for a way to capture the transformation of the sculpture to freeze the process of the sculpture’s dissolution. This comes the closest yet. Each sculpture is hand sandblasted, broken and chipped. No two will ever be the same.
Limited Editions
Since the mid-nineties, limited editions are a primary part of our art practice ranging from artists books to lenticulars to archival digital prints to lapel pins and snow globes. Some are signed and numbered, others are open editions.
Limited edition multiples include Edges – a series of digital print lenticulars of compound words Afterthought, Oversight, Underhand and Forever that change depending on the viewer’s relation to the work; The History of Art snow globes published by Artware Editions and much more.
Available on this website’s store and in galleries and museum stores.