Reflections

Commissioned Public Work, 2003-04
A Site-Specific Sculpture by Devorah Sperber

Centro Medico Train Station
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Devorah Sperber is one of twenty two *international artists invited to participate in "The Public Art Project of Puerto Rico," a major art initiative promoted by the Governor of Puerto Rico, where over 90 public art projects and interventions have been integrated in urban areas, train stations, parks, plazas, beaches and general infrastructure.

Assembly: "Reflections," by Devorah Sperber, 60,000 spools of thread, 23 convex mirrors, Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003- 2004, commissioned by the Governement of Puerto Rico
Studio at the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woodstock, NY. One of four work stations where Devorah Sperber (above) and assistants assembled 60,000 spools of thread.
Markertek Warehouse, Saugerties, NY. Reflections by Devorah Sperber, Assistants transferring spools of thread onto stainless steel tubes, October 2004
Markertek Warehouse, Saugerties, NY. Assistants transferring spools of thread onto stainless steel tubes.
Installation of thread, "Reflections," by Devorah Sperber, 60,000 spools of thread, 23 convex mirrors, Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003- 2004, commissioned by the Governement of Puerto Rico
Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Installing thread.
Installation of thread, "Reflections," by Devorah Sperber, 60,000 spools of thread, 23 convex mirrors, Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003- 2004, commissioned by the Governement of Puerto Rico
Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Installing thread.
Installation of mirrors, "Reflections," by Devorah Sperber, 60,000 spools of thread, 23 convex mirrors, Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003- 2004, commissioned by the Governement of Puerto Rico
Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Installing convex mirrors.
Installation of mirrors, "Reflections," by Devorah Sperber, 60,000 spools of thread, 23 convex mirrors, Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003- 2004, commissioned by the Governement of Puerto Rico
Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Installing convex mirrors.
"Reflections," by Devorah Sperber, 60,000 spools of thread, 23 convex mirrors, Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003- 2004, commissioned by the Governement of Puerto Rico

Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Installation view, December, 2004.

*60,000 spools of thread (left) and 23 large convex mirrors (right) which condense the thread spools into a photo-realistic image of a sky and clouds reflected on a calm ocean.

*partial funding by Coats and Clark

Woodstock Times
April 1, 2004
"Low-Tech Science: Sperber's Digital Spool Magic Expands Worlds"
by Paul Smart

Devorah Sperber is a New York-based artist whose sculptures, composed of thousands of ordinary objects, negotiate a terrain between low and high tech. Her labor-intensive works explore repetition and the effects of digital technology on perception, scale, and subjective reality. -Patricia Phillips, Executive Editor, Art Journal

*International artists: Dennis Adams, Hugo Vidal (Argentina), Devorah Sperber, Cristina Piffer (Argentina), Antonio Muntadas (Spain), Fernando Botero (Colombia), Ann Hamilton, Jorge Pardo (Cuba / USA), Vito Acconci, Rafael Ferrer, Ming Fay (China / USA), John Ahearn & RigobertoTorres, Tom Otterness, Red Grooms, Kenneth Snelson, Pepón Osorio, Isamu Noguchi (Japan / USA), West 8 (Holland), Lot/ek (Italy/ USA), . Liliana Porter (Argentina / USA), Lindsay Daen (New Zealand), Ivette Soler

 

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