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other past exhibitions › Lauren Argo: Life as Art › Mikhail Baryshnikov: Dominican Moves › Blue Apple Players: Tableau Vivant › Dan Dutton: Ballads of the Barefoot Mind › Dia de los Muertos: Day of the Dead › Finding Family › Marvin Francis: Prison's Paper Trail › Anthony Goicolea: Ramp › Ilse Haider: Selected Works 1997-2002 › Hybridity › Looking Now › Past Highlights › Everybody Always Thinks They Are Right › Marc Swanson: Beginning to See the Light › Through the Rabbit Hole › Tangled Up In You › John Waters: Unwatchable Series › Mickie Winters: Learning to Bend

Anthony Goicolea

Ramp, 2006

November 2007 – January 2008
street level gallery

Mixed media and sound
Commissioned for Calvin Klein Madison Avenue in 2006
Collection of 21c Museum Foundation

Anthony Goicolea’s Ramp is a sculptural and sound installation that continues the artist’s work of creating imaginative and abundant environments. This large skateboard ramp, or half pipe, is frozen and suspended in time while the natural elements of leafless trees and barren roots reclaim the abandoned man-made structure. In contrast, the half pipe is covered with repetitive markings, carvings, and graffiti tags that are almost obsessive and territorial in their repetition and seem like an urbanized form of instinctive animal traits and markings. A sound component can be heard from the piece of birds and skateboarders skating back and forth – both of which sound a bit like the respiratory system, pulse, or heartbeat of the sculpture. The abandoned ramp also serves as a reclaimed nesting ground for 10 white ptarmigan snow birds. This association of trees and birds in the skateboard ramp are elements of nature transplanted into an arctic urbanized landscape.

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