PHILANTHROPY, 2010-2011, was a one-year project, cataloging and documenting donations residents set out curbside for pick-up by various non-profits, including United Cerebral Palsy, CARH, and Disabled American Vets. How people set out their items for pick-up reflects their personalities and is addressed in my work as still lives at the end of their driveways. It was exhibited at Gallery Paule Anglim in December 2011. In the second smaller room in the gallery, viewers were invited to drop off donations to be collected by CARH at the close of the exhibition. The time-lapse video at the bottom of the page shows the collection and removal of the items donated.
PHILANTHROPY: This body of work catalogs things residents set on their curbs to be picked up by non-profits like United Cerebral Palsy and Disabled American Vets. In a mailer, these organizations state a date and time they will be in a residences' neighborhood to collect the donations. How people set out their items for pick-up reflects their personalities and are approached in my work as still lives at the end of their driveways. The work is in color (for the first time in over twenty years) because it demanded present tense. In addition to the series of photographs, there was a room where viewers were asked to bring items to donate to one of these non-profits, creating something sculptural—growing over the course of the exhibit as the philanthropic mood took over.
PHILANTHROPY exhibited at Gallery Paule Anglim in 2011.
In the second smaller room in the gallery, viewers were invited to drop off donations to be collected by CARH at the close of the exhibition. The time-lapse video shows the collection and removal of the items donated. Watch the time-lapse documentation below.