120 Vol Walker Hall
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone (479) 575-4945
Fax (479) 575-7099
120 Vol Walker Hall
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone (479) 575-4945
Fax (479) 575-7099
Martin Hogue, Queens as Margin (detail). This drawing focuses on Queens' most preeminent properties – its many cemeteries, where over 5,000,000 bodies are buried, and airports, which accommodate 2/3 of the New York metropolitan area's aerial traffic – as a means to expose the marginal identity that Queens has played historically in relationship to the rest of the city.
Site is the subject, not the setting, in an exhibition by Martin Hogue currently on display in Vol Walker Hall titled [Fake] Fake Estates. Inspired by conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark's 1975 exhibition Fake Estates, which documented 13 "gutter space" lots in Queens, New York, Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing the entire borough of Queens for residual properties. Hogue's drawings, collages and photographs reveal his intense consideration of the city's administrative minutia and a reconsideration of the conceptual potential of "real" sites - even postage-stamp and spaghetti-shaped sites (a 1/8" x 110' property, for example) without architectural potential.
A native of Montreal, Quebec, Martin Hogue is an assistant professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture. This traveling exhibition of his work will be on display in the first floor gallery of Vol Walker Hall through September 15.