See Corina Reynolds’ Installation At Open Source Beginning Saturday

An installation about exploration and waiting opens this weekend at Open Source Gallery, with a reception on Saturday to celebrate the work.

For Northwest Expansion, artist Corina Reynolds has recreated a waiting room and executive office from the northwestern section of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Manhattan, which is home to the Social Security Administration, New York City Immigration, and other government offices. Open Source describes the installation:

Reynolds uses the search for the Northwest Passage, a northern trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, as well as traditional waiting rooms as a metaphor for the waiting we do daily. These acts of waiting in office buildings, like the icy search for the Northwest Passage, are motivated by money, prestige, and exchange. Through carefully controlled light, surface, space, and typical waiting room furnishings such as vinyl flooring, industrial carpeting, service counters, and office chairs, Reynolds puts the viewer in intermission, evoking the experience of waiting and allowing individuals to examine their own ambitions.

The show runs at the gallery, located at 306 17th Street, from October 11 through November 1, and there’s an opening reception this Saturday from 7-9pm.

Photo via Open Source