Nick Bastis

Nick Bastis / / / nbastis@gmail.com

A toe for everyone:

Like a Heart the Size of an Ocean: A room built inside a room, posited as a sculpture. The room can be entered and also circumnavigated through narrow alleys. A three channel video presents text and images, also acting as a script for performances or "readings" that occured at times during the exhibition. Large windows are cut in both the newly built room as well as the existing gallery wall, revealing a large 200 sq. ft. unused space behind it. The piece of drywall removed from sculpture's wall is hung as a blue painting, the color that the back of the wall had been painted. The speaker is hooked up to a drum machine behind the security desk with which they report their already occuring body counts of the occupants of the room.

Like a Heart the Size of an Ocean (cont'd)

In Order to be Company. Works Include: Semi-octagon (Hand-sanded pvc piping, handrail brackets, water-weld epoxy, latex paint), Rolling Panel (Cast hydrocal and marble powder, aluminum t-slotted extrusions, wheels), Legates (Framed color inkjet print of Calista Flockhart in brown frame, framed grayscale inkjet print of Calista Flockhart in white frame), A Nurse’s Drawing of the Artist’s Backside (Bird) (Pen on 4x4” Gauze Package), Elliptical (Image of Calista Flockhart on dye sublimated micro-polyester towel covered in the artist’s mother’s sweat, in vacuum sealed bag, placed underneath raised floor), “Elegant almost to the point of mannerism” (Image of the artist’s grandfather on dye sublimated micro-polyester towel), Painting (Latex on fabric panel), Diced Pineapple (Raised floor), Stool (Modified camping stool, Roberts Super Felt Premium Felt Carpet Underliner), "Yes, they really do fly Home." (5:28 video loop on flat panel monitor, aluminum t-slotted extrusions)

In Order to be Company (cont'd)

Actor 2. Works include: Off Black (Two (2) 56” flat screen monitors, one unplugged, one with digital black feed), Rolling Panel (alumnum extrusions, cast marble/hydrocal, towels), Order #104-4315323-5885867 & Order #104-7428483 6180233 (Roberts Super Felt Premium Felt Carpet Underliner, Roberts Super Felt Premium Felt Carpet Underliner, particle board, particle board)

Actor 1. Works include: Rolling Panel (Cerberus) (aluminum 45mm t-slotted extrusions, white carrara marble powder, hydrocal, hardware, white towel, pink towel, casters), Order #104-4315323-5885867 & Order #104-7428483-6180233 (Roberts Super Felt Premium Felt Carpet Underliner, Roberts Super Felt Premium Felt Carpet Underliner, particle board, particle board) Video Object (Survivors Blossom) (Framed drywall (found) LED Screen, video loop (5:26)), Viewer Preferences (Tulip, Turban) (Two 19” LED flatscreen monitors, aluminum 45mm t-slotted extrusions, hardware, screen user settings)