artwork by David Dunlap "Anna Mendieta Foster Child of Iowa"


Item Number: 121

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $1,500

Online Close: Sep 25, 2006 9:00 PM CDT

Bid History: 0 bids

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Estimated Value:
$1,500

 

Description: "Buy
This / Get This
Surrounding
Story
FREE Ana
Mendieta Foster Child of Iowa
" is comprised of seven @ $100
notebook drawings (ball-point pen on paper, 6 ¼" x 3 ¾", framed,
8" x 5 ½") and four @ $200 Volksgraphics paintings (acrylic on paper,
14 ½" x 11 ½", framed 20 ¾" x 16 ¾"), one Walnut
Farms shelf, and, one device for Measuring the Presence of Martin Luther King
jr.. This constellation of objects when hung as pictured measures 56" x 69
½".

 

Get This Surrounding Story FREE style='font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Ana Mendietta Foster Child of
Iowa
:

 

A series of events leading up to a celebration of Martin
Luther King jr. on January 15, 2006. All of these events will take place at
Walnut Farms, 1517 North Dubuque Road, Iowa City, Iowa. These events include:

(1) " The Dedication of the Patron's Chair" (watch an
eighteen-foot bridge built in under twenty-eight minutes. You, the patron sit
high and dry.). See
the Big
Hand move.

(2) " The Erection of the TENT ( the Life and Times of
Martin Luther King jr. )". A five part presentation of the five parts of a
tent (measuring 11' x 15' x 14' ). The last of these five presentations will
take place on January 15, 2007 and will coincide with a celebration of Martin
Luther Kings jr.'s birthday. For your comfort a wood stove will be present.

(3) "The Resurrection of the Tower". Hear the history
of a 52' tower too tall laid low then placed on the roof of the Vehicle of
Marriage Gallery and transported to and resurrected at White Columns Gallery,
NYC, July, 2006. See the reresurrection of the Tower now on wheels at Walnut
Farms.

(4) "Without Sanctuary". An installation collaboration
between Matt McConnville and Walnut Farms Inter-Species Artists Collective.
This installation will be presented in the Compost Ark at Walnut Farms. This
installation will include a history of the Burning Cross and the Swastika.

(5) "Corderoy". Guided by paper lanterns walk on the
road that leads to Martin Luther King jr.

(6) A history of Ana Mendieta Foster Child of Iowa (School
of Art and Art History)

(7) One pint of Walnut Farms Walnut Paint.

(8) One Walnut Farms Walking Stick (cut to your
specifications).

(9) One book which records "Buy This / Get Thisstyle='font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:normal'> Surrounding Story FREE
Ana Mendieta Foster
Child of Iowa".

 

You, the patron sit front and center, high and dry.

 

David Dunlap is a member of Walnut Farms an Inter-Species
Artists Collective. This collective has had one-person exhibitions at Franklin
Furnace, NYC, White Columns, NYC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, NC, Mills College Gallery, Oakland, CA, the Des Moines Art
Center, Des Moines, IA.

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David Dunlap as a member of Walnut Farms an Inter-Species
Artists Collective was part of the exhibition "In the Spirit of Martin" an
exhibition organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service in cooperation with the Martin Luther King jr. Center for
Nonviolent Social Change. This exhibition traveled to:

Bass Museuem of Art, Miami Beach, Fl, 2002

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, 2003

International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C., 2003

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, 2003

Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Al, 2004

 

Walnut Farms Guarantee to you: In style='font-weight:normal'>the SWEETNESS style='font-weight:normal'>of Time All the Love in the
World.
In the SWEETNESS of time
there will be a web site, Dear Reader, where you can see the Surrounding Story
of
Buy This / Get This Surrounding Story FREEstyle='font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:normal'> Ana Mendieta Foster Child of
Iowa.

 

 

 

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