expose themselves with their dirty balls

the room starts with a wall covered with 400 square feet of white on white images of the artist's faces. during the performance brian and ryan through graphite covered basketballs at the wall of prints. the result of this graphite ball bombardment is that the images comes into focus as the white screen printed images resist the graphite and the paper takes the pigment.

BASKETBALL BACKBACKS

Dirty Prints

July 06

APROPREATING ART HISTORY THROUGH BASKETBALL

100 BOXES BRIAN LOOKING OUTWARD RYAN LOOKING INWARD

100 BOXES WITH
BRIAN'S IMAGE ON ONE SIDE AND
RYAN'S IMAGE ON THE OTHER SIDE

ALL THE BOXES WERE PUT TOGETHER AND SIGNED BY RYAN
AND WERE THEN SHUTTLED UP THE GALLERY STAIRWELL
BY A PULLEY RIG

TO BRIAN WHO STAMPED AND SIGNED EACH BOX

FOR THREE HOURS RYAN BUILT BOXES

AND BRIAN BUILT A CURVED WALL WITH THE BOXES

BRIAN'S IMAGE FACING AWAY FROM THE WALL

RYAN'S IMAGE FACING TOWARDS THE WALL

BRIAN OUTWARD

RYAN INWARD

Brian Knotting Ryan Knitting

TWENTY MIN. OF AN EMPTY CHAIR

TWO HOURS OF KNITTING (RYAN)

TWO HOURS OF KNOTTING (BRIAN)

RYAN IS ATTACHED TO THE GALLERY WALL

VERY AESTHETICALLY PLEASING

FIVE MIN. BEFORE THE SHOW ENDS RYAN IS CUT FROM THE WALL

REMNANTS

AND THEY LEAVE THE GALLERY