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Homostatic Feedback or Natural Body Water is the title of a new piece by Tavares Strachan. In this work the artist collected his own urine, which he then transformed into purified drinking water using a fabricated distillation system. The work will be on exhibit this month at Pierogi in Brooklyn along side three other major works. The Ronald Feldman Gallery has also sponsored projects by Strachen including the Artic Ice Project, where the artist actually cut a block of ice from a frozen river in the Artic and shipped it to the Bahamas where it was kept in a massive freezer powered by only solar energy. Strachan graduated this year from Yale School of Art, and while at school Strachan directed the excavation of a 3000 lb. portion, 56" x 56" of Crown Street in New Haven, Connecticut. The work included sidewalk, earth, a parking meter, a street sign and accompanying air. This work was later exhibited at the Luggage Store Galley in San Francisco and was featured in article by Rhizome.

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I viewed this artist work in the Bahamas last year. It was an amazing correlation between the physical properties of the materials and the advancement of new technology. A must for anyone who is in the area to see...

---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: john smitz | November 17, 2006 12:11 PM

I had the chance to see some of this guys work in San Francisco. He actually had a piece of New Haven shipped in; you could see all the layers of development and sedimentation. I thought it was interesting reference to the idea of space and physical location. Nice feature!

---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: Jane Folly | November 17, 2006 12:18 PM