Sunday, January 30, 2011

de Beer's mystical video "The Ghosts"

White Paint, Chocolate, and Postmodern Ghosts

By RANDY KENNEDY

SURVEYING the row of door buzzers outside the hulking Brooklyn building where the artist Sue de Beer works, it somehow seems fitting to find a lone occupant listed on the building’s top floor, with no further explanation: “GOD.”

From Creative Exchange Lab

“I don’t know who that is or what they do,” Ms. de Beer said, breaking into a laugh when a reporter pointed out the small handwritten label next to the buzzer. “I’ve never really been up to that floor.”

But given the nature of her work and especially her most recent creation — a lush, frankly mystical video piece called “The Ghosts” that will have its debut Thursday in an unlikely place, one of the stately period rooms at the Park Avenue Armory — it is tempting to imagine the Holy Ghost himself at work up there in an old warehouse on the Red Hook flatlands, not far from a dingy bus depot, an Ikea and a discount store called 99 Cent Dreams.

From Creative Exchange Lab

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