PULSE Art Fair’s signature Pulse Projects program is committed to the presentation and promotion of audience-engaging large-scale sculptures, installations and performances. Pulse Projects is part of our continuing mission to link an international roster of premier contemporary galleries and artists with local cultural institutions, communities and audiences.

FRED WILSON
Sneaky Leaky, 2009
Blown glass; 6 wall units and 5 floor units
Courtesy of The Pace Gallery and Rena Bransten, Booth A-8

FRED WILSON
Reign, 2011
Cardboard globe, glass beads, coated steel cable and wood bracket; 42x12x12., overall installed
Courtesy of The Pace Gallery and Rena Bransten, Booth A-8

With Sneaky Leaky, Wilson offers evocative drops and puddles of opaque glass, inspired by his 2003 Venice Biennale installation and the complex history of blackness in Venetian art and culture.  Variously understood as black tears, oil, glass eyes, or ink, the glasswork is as impenetrable as the history itself, never offering conclusions but rather opening a world of metaphorical meaning.  Similarly evocative, the glass beads hanging from the black globe in Reign suggest a geography of race, begging the question of what blackness means globally and historically.

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