Sapien Gallery paired Andy Ozier + Andrew Ordonez together for Site One at the Gillham park slabs, resulting in three collaborative sculptures. Ozier + Ordonez’s works present themselves as amalgamations of found objects and reworked city grime. Ozier brings a folk recycle-centric influence to Ordonez’s focus on capitalistic remains and queer macabre. The pieces appear to be products of their environment, including aluminum cans, locks of hair, pool tile, concrete, and bits of print media to build up ‘reconstructed scarecrows’.
Detail shots of Andy Ozier + Andrew Ordonez’s ‘reconstructed scarecrows’ for Sapien at Site One. Layers of collaged materials reveal gritty poetry between objects, architecture, and media in totem-like structures. Standing up to 5 feet tall, these works assert themselves with a bodily presence. The staggered plinths at the slabs not only gave viewers multiple points of entry into the works, but as ‘reconstructed scarecrows’, these pieces transformed the context of the space into concrete terraces possibly farmed for their litter and debris.
Detail shots of Andy Ozier + Andrew Ordonez’s ‘reconstructed scarecrows’ for Sapien at Site One.
Detail shots of Andy Ozier + Andrew Ordonez’s ‘reconstructed scarecrows’ for Sapien at Site One.
Detail shots of Andy Ozier + Andrew Ordonez’s ‘reconstructed scarecrows’ for Sapien at Site One.
Detail shots of Andy Ozier + Andrew Ordonez’s ‘reconstructed scarecrows’ for Sapien at Site One.
Detail shots of Andy Ozier + Andrew Ordonez’s ‘reconstructed scarecrows’ for Sapien at Site One.