Red, White, and Blue, 2005Source: NIKON D70
Red, White, and Blue, 2005Source: NIKON D70
Red, White, and Blue, 2005Source: NIKON D70
Culbert’s WindowWorks projects explore political and artistic subterfuge, sabotage, cover-ups, and conspiracies. Using an empty, smashed-open safe to breach Artpace’s 445 North Main Street windows, Culbert’s Calamity alludes obliquely to politicians’ hollow, destructive ambitions to “break into” places where they do not belong. Red, White, and Blue refers more directly to the havoc and tragedy such invasions wreak. Inscribing text from Prime Minister Tony Blair’s response to Al Qaeda’s London bombings on a magenta-painted window (the color representing the proportional combination of the red, white, and blue in the American flag), Culbert questions the human cost of collusion with the world’s greatest superpower.
