Wildly roaming about the hallowed grounds of various galleries and museums during this here Art Basel season in Miami, one thing is quite clear... The amount of art is overwhelming. Perhaps that is why the Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC) came up with the idea to do a show entitled "Sensory Overload." In this show, artists were asked to do conceptual art dealing with the five senses in any medium, so long as it was of installation size (large.)
As I had written before, I had an aversion to conceptual art, because there really is no concept that has not been explored and it just wasn't for me. However, I contradicted myself and collaboratively created a space that is so conceptual, it is apart from art all together.
The motive, for most of us artists, is to put their shit out there and let it be noticed, allowing the artists to get noticed. We decided to put a piece of art out there that only few will notice, if any at all...
What you see when you walk into the main gallery at the BAC is lots of color, explosion of imagery, large textile pieces hanging about, shock art photos of medical instruments, petri dishes with shocking pastel colored candy and what you hear is fast music and noise from video installations. All of these pieces scream to get noticed and do it well, amidst the tens of thousands of other art pieces all across the city...
Yet, tucked away in the corner of this gallery, with little marking but a 4" x 4" title card, is this dark, closed off space that very few people noticed, and that was the point. When one walks up to it, it looks like an ordinary wall that was strewn together to block off a space. The wall has these intentional spaces in between the panels that one can peak through and view what appears to be a shadow of a woman walking about the space as if it was an ordinary day... reading a book, painting a painting, drinking tea, etc.. Only the truly inquisitivewill peak in and find it. Very few will get it. That is pretty conceptual isn't it?
For information on the show, Sensory Overload and the Bakehouse, go to: http://www.Bacfl.org 
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