Almond Zigmund - Road Map

Almond Zigmund - Road Map
  • Title: Almond Zigmund - Road Map
  • Dimensions: 13 ft x 10 ft x 17ft
  • Materials: vinyl, acrylic, faom, enamel
  • Primary Medium: installation
  • Year Created: 2011
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Artwork Description


This is a site specific installation done in the summer of 2011 for Allegra LaViola Gallery in New York. It was done with the anticipation of summer and car travel and tourist attractions; the things that draw us to the road and the things that await. The intersection of desire (forward motion) and concrete reality as it manifests itself in the walls of the freeway, et al, and the often disorienting effect that this clash can have on us. That is what this piece is about. The pattern on the wall is a reworked tire tread and the foam piece is a carving of cinder block wall. The wall elements are made of cut vinyl and acrylic paint, and the sculpture snaking around the stair rail is carved foam.

Almond Zigmund

Almond Zigmund

Almond Zigmund’s work strives to sharpen our perceptions of space while exploring the nature of opposition. Combining crisp geometry, vivid color, and intricate patterns, her drawings, sculptures, and installations often suggest walls, barricades, enclosures, and other aspects of the built environment. Her architectonic works tend to engage the eye and the body at once, offering generous amounts of visual stimulation while also inducing visceral reactions to the virtual and actual spaces she creates. The phenomenological impact of Zigmund’s art derives from a number of practiced formal devices. When working on paper, or directly on the surfaces of existing architectural spaces, she frequently plots precise perspective points to demarcate volumes or plunge viewers into illusory realms and taps into a dialogue of here and there, improvisation and choreographed gesture, and the nature of form as it serves to alter our visual perception and physical stability. Zigmund's work has been exhibited internationally for the past decade, including shows in Zurich, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Columbus. Her work has been selected for shows curated by Dave Hickey, Robert Storr, David Pagel, David Adamo, Jessica Frost, Rolf Staub and Steven Criqui, among others. In 2007 the Parrish Art Museum mounted a solo exhibition of her work, titled “Remembering The Future”. Zigmund has been represented by the Rebecca Ibel Gallery since 2005.

Website: www.almondzigmund.com

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