"Replacement Wood-Burning Stove for Edwin Dickinson’s Studio"

2009

paper, glue, graphite, string, spray paint, foam core board, flocking, nails

A collaboration with Matt Bollinger that includes the paper stove, the paper tools hanging to the left of the stove and the drawing hanging to the left of the tools. This installation pairs Bollinger’s fascination with former Provincetown artist Edwin Dickinson (who once kept his studio in the Fine Arts Work Center when it was formerly Days’ Lumber), with Gordon’s interest in the Hawthorne School (the site of the original iron stove and accompanying rusty tools on which Gordon’s paper versions are based). Gordon’s paper stove is attached to the studio’s original chimney. Bollinger’s drawing is a response to Dickinson’s paintings of brigs stranded in ice, and is based on sketches he made while observing the model of the Rose Dorothea at the Provincetown Public Library.

Meghan Gordon