"Trey Anastasio’s Grandmother’s Chair (my Vermont studio chair)"

[in its natural environment]

2008

paper, gesso and glue

A response to some time Gordon spent working in the band Phish’s recording studio in Vermont. Most of the furniture in the studio, called The Barn, once belonged to the grandmother of one of the band’s members. Gordon replicated one of these objects – a mundane chair that had been used consequentially by a family, persons of fame and the artist. The work explores the fan culture surrounding this particular studio environment, how layers of history can be held by a single object, and how this multi-faceted history might or might not translate once the object is removed from context.

Meghan Gordon