Myrel Chernick

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  • Biography
  • Installations
    • Don’t Make Waves
    • Parts of Speech
    • 1978
    • She Paused
    • Blue Grotto
    • 1976
  • Videotapes
    • Out my window
    • Mommy Mommy
    • Esprit d’escalier
    • Sam Tanya 17
  • Images
    • Photographs
    • The Paris Drawings
  • Texts
    • Time Passes
    • Living With Cobwebs
    • The Studio Visit
  • Contact
Installations » Parts of Speech

Question: What had become of her?
Answer: Unavailable, undecided, undetermined.

A woman’s face, rotating 360 degrees, dominates the installation. Light as shape, as text, as movement, illuminates and alters space. Corner junctions are distorted, additional planes angle and curve walls and surfaces take on new meaning. The text enters the work visually, directs the eye, and expands the visual barriers of the room.

Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Colors and spatial relationships change. Language is presented as handwriting, as translation, as grammatical construction. Surprises await on the other side.

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