A brilliant idea is becoming reality inside the Burchfield Penney
Art Center. Filling the main gallery is a prototype of a barge – the kind of
barge that used to haul “lumber, coal and hay” along the Erie Canal. But the barge being planned at the BP
will carry art and artists all the way through the canal system and down to Brooklyn.
Curator, Scott Propeack, already has his sights set on the historic ‘Day
Peckinpaugh,’ part of the New York State Museum collection. Finishing the restoration of the
Peckinpaugh and outfitting it into floating galleries is bound to be a
demanding but not impossible challenge.
The potential for art to travel to new audiences through this historical
waterway is too exciting not to succeed.
In the meantime, art is being “loaded in” to the BP prototype
through an open curatorial system that lets the public join the process. I am
happy to say my assemblage; ‘Scajaquada Baby’ made the cut and found a place on
board. The prototype will be on
view until October 19, 2014.
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