Pipeline and Tap Water Shrine from Runoff
Pipeline
In the soaring glass atrium on the second floor, we constructed an oversized pipeline installation spanning 84 feet, conceived to disrupt the gallery’s striking elegance, referencing a dependence on fossil fuels.
On a few of the windows, cutouts of lemurs bound around calling attention to both the trees outside and the absence of habitat so crucial for their survival as a result of land claimed by fossil fuel extraction.
Pipeline with two figures
Pipeline with one figure
Gallery visitor with pipeline and lemurs
Gallery visitor talking with Christy in front of the pipeline
Lemur cut-out, detail
Hawks had previously been spotted sitting in the trees outside the atrium at UB Anderson Gallery. Here they are caught on camera checking out the lemurs.
Hawks had previously been spotted sitting in the trees outside the atrium at UB Anderson Gallery. Here they are caught on camera checking out the lemurs.
Tap Water Shrine
Tap Water Shrine room
Small darkened alcove to spotlight the perfectly harmless contaminants in Tap Water
Small darkened alcove to spotlight the perfectly harmless contaminants in Tap Water
Tap Water Shrine
Two sets of Watershed Glassware, 2000
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