Word: dots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...description of artist Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project in Detroit [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 25], Ron Stodghill II noted that Heidelberg Street is festooned in polka dots. Stodghill said that neighbors weren't thrilled by other aspects of the project, including the thousands of old shoes displayed in the area. But support from neighborhood residents, local businesses and government groups far surpasses any dissatisfaction. The Heidelberg Project provides a stimulating, relatively safe stretch in Detroit's inner city where residents and visitors can play, create, learn, sit and think. Many of the artworks, constructed by Guyton with the help of children...
...Eleven years later, thousands of used shoes are piled by the sidewalk and hanging in the trees--along with rusty car hoods and tires strewn across a vacant lot and rows and rows of discarded vacuum cleaners, stuffed animals and broken dolls. Heidelberg Street is also festooned in polka dots. "I'm going to polka-dot this whole city," proclaims Guyton, 41, who says the dots commemorate his late grandfather's love of jelly beans...
...three nuclear code briefcases assigned to President Boris Yeltsin and his top two military officials. On each briefcase a small light beside the handle blinked on. The officer carrying Yeltsin's case rushed to the President and flipped it open. On an electronic map inside, they saw a bright dot over the Norwegian Sea. Beneath the map was a row of buttons, offering a menu of attack options on targets...
Over the past four years, Boyda has followed one tradition without fail--he always marks the ball the same way, with one dot above the 'Titleist' logo and one below. But golf has also left a lasting imprint on both players, carrying them through the bumps of a season toward the arc of their future...
...always a liability, this frenetic motion sometimes creates a brilliant effect as in Landscape with Boat. Easily the most abstract and compositionally daring painting in the show, Landscape with Boat looks like a jagged collision of two blue dot screens leaving a gigantic gash across the canvas. Only upon closer inspection do we notice the prow of a tiny red boat jutting in from the lower left-hand edge of the painting. This careful cropping coupled with a horizonless point of view emphasizes the vast and perhaps overwhelming aspect of nature often captured in actual Chinese painting...