Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis | Sculpture Imaginer

Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis

Sculpture Imaginer

Pittsburgh, USA: Early Editions, 2023

6 x 9” 

Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies

Several years ago, on a road trip to Ottawa with our friends Jen and Stefan, the four of us conceived of an exhibition - only partly in jest - about plinths. It was to include works of art that were inseparable from the pedestals on which they stood. Things like Tom Friedman’s Untitled (A Curse), in which the artist employed a professional witch to cast a curse on the area above the plinth (and my friend Leah, who hired another witch to remove the spell). 

I think it was Stefan who proposed the exhibition’s title: Ace of Base. 

Sculpture Imaginer by Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis would be a perfect work for this imagined exhibition. A three millimetre chain is fastened to uncoated archival Mohawk paper laminated with black cardstock seam, allowing the viewer to conceive of an infinite number of sculptural forms atop the printed plinth. 

Sculpture Imaginer is available for $100 US, from the artists, here.