Marcia Huyer
What’s Up There Anyhow?
September 11–October 10, 2009

Take meters of gray silk fabric and build a monument to modernism in its twilight age. Add air and see if they can still stand on their own.

Marcia Huyer has taken some of the great skyscrapers of the western modernist architectural canon and re-imagined them as scale model inflatables — much like the novelty jack-o-lanterns and snowmen found on suburban lawns during the holidays. In the gallery, the Empire State Building, the Sears Tower, the Petronas Twin Towers and friends puff up, sway, droop and bend; playful, funny, and a bit sad. The symbolism was overt and amusing, but never heavy handed.

Marcia Huyer’s Windsor exhibition at Artcite was her first appearance at a Windsor gallery.