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ARTCAT



Charlotte Becket

Taxter & Spengemann Gallery
459 West 18th Street, 212-924-0212
Chelsea
January 7 - February 5, 2005
Reception: Friday, January 7, 6 - 8 PM
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From the Press Release:

Looking at Charlotte Becket’s The Wishing Well, a ten-foot tall sculptural contraption built mostly out of trash, is like catching a glimpse of the industrial imagination gone awry. Rectangular buckets fastened to a vertical conveyor belt collect and carry rubbish upwards, and dump it over and over, creating a trash-stirring waterwheel. The stuff cascades over modular steps of plywood that have been cut flush by a band saw, and sandwich weeks worth of studio-generated refuse. Positioned at the top of the conveyer channel billows a fan-fueled spinnaker of plastic bags, straining to lift or break free of the hulking earth-bound structure that anchors it.

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