ANDREW J. GREENE

An illuminated, spinning, sign that displays ‘yes’ on one side and ‘no’ on the other side¹ is affixed to the facade of the Osborne Street gallery.

Ten used toy vending machines² are installed in the corridor beside the entrance of the gallery. Each vending machine displays a different collection of antique items.

A polished, black, granite sculpture depicting an antique film camera sits near the entrance of the gallery and points inward.³

A 48-foot-long aluminium railing is suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the gallery. The railing consists of (six) 8-foot sections, each of which is engraved with two phrases,⁴ one on each side. A doubled series of red, cardboard numbers, one to nine with zero at the end, hang from the railing.⁵ Small desktop fans are assimilated into the architecture of the railing and animate the numbers.

A mirror made to look like an antique film camera⁶ is centred on the back wall.

A motorised, life-size, swan decoy⁷ is mounted to the wall in the back corner of the gallery.

Andrew J. Greene (b. 1988, Chicago, Illinois; Lives and works in Los Angeles), studied at School of the Art Institute Chicago. Selected solo presentations include: Unconditional Surrender, The Modern Institute, Aird’s Lane Bricks Space (2019); Make New York Better, 83 Pitt Street, New York (2016); Big Apple Logistics, Tomorrow, New York (2016); Tuesday Morning, U.S. Blues, New York (with Daniel Sullivan) (2015); Victory Blindness, Muscle Beach, Portland (2015); ‘Brisas Del Mar’, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles (2014); Dogs With Fleas, Christening for a Cat, Bed-Stuy Love Affair, New York (2013).

1 The sign enlarges an ‘executive’ decision making coin that was gifted to Greene’s father at some point in the 1980’s. 2 A once-ubiquitous feature of the American commercial landscape, toy vending machines were found outside of supermarkets and restaurants.

2 They were designed to appeal to children with bright colours and dispensed little tchotchkes and toys in plastic capsules.

3 The sculpture is a 1:1 translation of a portion of a headstone in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.

4 The phrases are appropriated from storefront signage, book titles, and radio advertisements.

5 Jack’s Candy, a wholesale candy outlet in downtown Los Angeles displays numbered piñatas along a tensioned cable near the entrance of the store causing them to occasionally sway in the breeze.

^{6 The mirror is a 1:1 translation of an existing mirror in the men’s bathroom of a Casablanca themed restaurant in Venice, CA.}

7 A swan decoy is used to scare away smaller fowl and prevent them from nesting on private property.