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Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

Installation view: "Virginia Overton: Flat Rock." Photo: Markus Haugg.
Installation view: "Virginia Overton: Flat Rock." Photo: Markus Haugg.
Apr 18 – Jul 6, 2014
Virginia Overton: Flat Rock

“Virginia Overton: Flat Rock,” marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at an American museum, and features both works from the artist’s studio and commissioned sculpture compiled with objects sourced in the area around the exhibition site to reframe the relationship between work and environment.

Known for an artistic process that involves found and readily available materials—wood, pipes, cement, rope, Virginia Overton (b. 1971, Nashville) transforms and repurposes these into sculptures and site-specific installations that highlight distinct physical properties, such as weight, gravity, tension and suspension. The artist uses simple constructions and materials to make significant revisions to the perfect forms endemic to minimalism. In the past, pedestals have been pressed and perched between two gallery walls; planks of Douglas fir wedged between columns to create large, leaning triangles; flat, inflexible Plexiglas panels have been bound at their ends with a ratchet strap, creating ominously unstable structures. These often large-scale works, straightforward in fabrication and composition, maximize the tensions inherent to materials and the exhibition site through the artist’s physical manipulation.

Installation View

Installation view of VO - Tarp Hall
Installation view: "Virginia Overton: Flat Rock." Photo: Markus Haugg.
Installation view of VO - Tire
Installation view: "Virginia Overton: Flat Rock." Photo: Markus Haugg.
Image of VO - Tire 2 detail
Installation view: "Virginia Overton: Flat Rock." Photo: Markus Haugg.
Installation view of Virginia Overton: Flat Rock
Installation view: "Virginia Overton: Flat Rock." Photo: Markus Haugg.
Installation view: Virginia Overton: Flat Rock
Installation view: "Virginia Overton: Flat Rock." Photo: Markus Haugg.