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Elana HerzogPosted by Fintan Boyle and Jennie Nichols on Friday, March 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment 

Elana Herzog, Southern Lights, Installation view at Lmakprojects

Elana Herzog is perhaps best known for large-scale works where rugs or blankets invade the architecture. Tensof thousands of staples affix the aforementioned rug to the gallery wall; rug and wall are thus married never to bedivorced. And though we do not actually see it, we know that this mode of ‘installation’ must surely destroy thehost wall. Lights out, show closed the de-installation surely takes the building with it. Currently her studio is

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Herzog’s favorite corner ofher studio has stackedboxes full of her art.

Herzog pins up hand madepaper pieces.

Herzog pulls out Untitled2013 from its storage box.

Untitled 2013

Return of the Repressed Installation shot from B19show.

Untitled 2013 Plumb Pulp from SouthernLights, 2014

First Axiom_2013 Studio Shot, woodconstruction

Studio Shot. woodconstruction

Studio Shot, woodconstruction

Studio shot of book art,“TEXAS”

Title page of “TEXAS” artbook.

Studio shot, book art withthreads

Artist lifts panel from artbook.

home to scraps of wood, fabric and paper. (Some rugs and blankets, too.) In her recent show Plumb Pulp atLmakprojects  (http://www.lmakprojects.com/) the fabric and paper showed up conjoined as handmade paperworks framed, pressed and squished between glass and backing board. This is paper that is very, very hand made.Often holes split one surface to reveal colored fabric behind or between layers of paper. Layers pass back andforth through one another. Throughout the work the notion of flat surface –paper, wall– as place of representationis voided. Representation and site conflate.  In her one of kind books the holes turn up again revealing the pagebehind, beneath and before the page one is on. Fabric tassels and threads weave through and pepper the pageswhile origami, complex folds detour the reading of the sparse text.

More images of Herzog’s work can be seen at: http://www.elanaherzog.com/

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Studio shot of artist liftingpaper piece from storage

box.

Untitled 2013 Untitled 2013 Studio shot of Untitled2013 in its storage box.

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