Math Bass: Crowd Rehearsal

Math Bass’s work encompasses painting, sculpture, video, and performance. She situates her production in an indeterminate zone where image, object, and language are fluid. In Crowd Rehearsal, a svelte, ladderlike sculpture draped with a coatlike painting is set against two canvases with nearly identical imagery. The title and forms suggest but do not show human bodies and actions. Does the title invite the viewer to take part in a performance? Or does it imply that this is only a run-through for something yet to come? Bass has opened up authorship to create a shared experience between artist and audience.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.