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*penny-hung drawings

2012-2014

A series of collages printed on vinyl coated canvas, hung from the wall by a penny wedged into the surface of the drywall. The prints include images of a chairs constructed from a woman in bondage, a prehistoric fertility figure, an archeological dig, hands shaping a pot on a spinning wheel, laborers on strike, a war memorial among other things. Held in place by our smallest monetary unit these works link sculpture, the logic of built forms and the reproductive body, to a larger cultural system of value and signification.

A.K. Burns

In Labor, 2012, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas, 15 x 9 x 5 inches.

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Detail of penny from In Labor, 2012

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Window In My Way, 2012, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas, 14 x 11 x 4 1/2 inches.

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On Our Knees, 2012, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas, 19 x 8 x 4 inches.

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Another view of On Our Knees

A.K. Burns

Figuratively, 2012, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas, 13 x 8 x 4 1/2 inches.

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Fertility Bull, 2012, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas, 15 1/2 x 10 x 4 inches.

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Hold Mold Memorial Monument, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas, 10 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches, 2012

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Mirage, 2014, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas, 16 x 11 inches.

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Continuum portrait, 2014, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas

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Endless Frieze, 2014, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas.

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Unstable Table, 2014, penny, archival inkjet image transfers on vinyl coated canvas, 18 x 11 inches.