"Wallpaper from the Dining Room at Wildwood Manor in Nebraska City, NE (for the Hans Hofmann Gallery at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum)"

2009

oil paint and house paint on paper

An attempt to translate a wallpaper from Wildwood Manor in Nebraska City, NE to a museum space in Provincetown, MA. Wildwood is a period home whose contents are an amalgamation of the city’s residents’ antiques. It is proclaimed to be an “example of what a banker’s house in the nineteenth century in Nebraska City might have been like...” Gordon’s wallpaper was molded around the name of the gallery, which protruded from the wall, and was cut to fit around a pipe, an exit sign, a door and a vent. The wallpaper now embodies two separate spaces in its most recent installation.

The Hans Hofmann Gallery at the PAAM in Provincetown, MA.

Second installation at the Walker Gallery for the show "This room used to be a studio" in April 2009. The wallpaper now contains traces of the Hofmann Gallery including the cut away spaces where the door and exit sign were as well as the debossed text that reads: "Hans Hofmann Gallery."

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