This project, made with collaborator Katie Hargrave, takes the history, design, use, and secondary market of fetishized mid-late 20th century outdoor recreation gear as its starting point. Inspired by the legacy of Bill Moss, a fiber artist turned tent designer, we drew upon the plans, advertisements, and ebay postings for Moss Tents to create an immersive installation of deconstructed tent forms. Moss Tents have become highly sought after fetish objects in recent years, and we use their form to consider the instrumentalization of design capitalist fantasies of the outdoors. The exhibition, which was shown at COOP Gallery in Nashville in the spring of 2024, also includes a series of collages and lenticular prints.
The artworks in this exhibition were created with support from the Current Art Fund grant, a granting program organized and administered by Tri-Star Arts as a partner in the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
The artworks in this exhibition were created with support from the Current Art Fund grant, a granting program organized and administered by Tri-Star Arts as a partner in the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Installation view at COOP Gallery, Nashville, April, 2024.
This sculptural installation includes tent poles, printed vinyl decal, and lenticular prints. The images are collaged from advertisements for Moss Tents, and the shapes and tent poles are derived from the patterns and plans for three classic Moss Tents: the Deltoid, Starlet, and Outland.
The project also includes a series of collages made from catalog images for outdoor recreation gear. Including inkjet prints, lenticular prints, printed vinyl, and fabric, these collages draw from research conducted at the Utah State University Outdoor Recreation Archive.
Three lenticular prints complete the exhibition. These collages merge together advertisements featuring tents, using the shape and panels of the tents as patterns across the images.