Kathi Hofer – Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village

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Kathi Hofer – Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle VillageAn artists documentation of 'Grandma' Prisbeys legendary architectural tour de force. On the outskirts of Simi Valley, California, stands a cluster of 16 buildings designed and built by American artist Tressa Prisbrey (18961988). Between 1956 and 1972, Prisbrey laboriously mined a local landfill for glass bottles and shards of pottery to use in her construction of the collection of buildings now known as Grandma Prisbreys Bottle Village. Prisbrey

These sculptural forms use materials such as marble

and photographs become canvases for stains and slashes of colour

the pictorial compositions form ascending and descending series of various lengths in which other images using other techniques are embedded

These two weeks in the desert result in anxiety and anti-social behaviour among the participants

is a case study on the ongoing development and generational handover of private collections

there’s no guarantee the lights will appear

he uses them to show how we relate to the objects that surround us

white supremacy

The 2015 exhibition and publication proudly presents a new standard

Falk Haberkorn visited Germany’s five new federal states

power and branding

and a Q&A between Erik Brandt and Paul Schmelzer from the Walker Reader