Outside the Art World

Two artists I think really show how you can work within the artworld, and outside of it, a happy medium I guess, is Kate Erickson and Mel Ziegler. The fact that some works of theirs are hard to find on the internet should attest to this. They do a lot of public art, like for one project, called House Monument, they put enough planks of wood to build a house in a gallery space, with all different quotes about homes on them. The viewer could move the the planks to expose different quotes. They used the wood to build a house for a family, and part of the deal was that none of the wood with the quotes could show when the house was finished. Talk about refusing to let art be a commodity! Anyway, I have a book that I will bring to class........because their art works are really original, and are often nonpermanent, and involve the general public. Basically, they rock.