COCHECTON – Artist Samuelle Green demonstrates her versatility, range, and desire for artistic exploration with a new outdoor installation artwork entitled “B Y D A Y : B Y N I G H T ” that emerges from the organic deep-sea, subterranean objects, and womb-like immersive realms of some of her past paper works (e.g. her “paper cave” installation in Honesdale, PA 2017) to rise scaffold-like into the outside world and sky above in Cochecton. 

She achieves this through expanding her sculptural vocabulary to include a distinctly human visual language of steel rods on the x, y and z axes during the day that transcends itself and its materiality to become a work of reflective light existing in the void of the universe by night.

From an elegantly cropped three-dimensional grid are revealed seemingly levitating ethereal minimal chair forms – seats arranged to reference gatherings or assemblies with the attendees having departed or yet to arrive. The artist reimagines the elements as a way of acknowledging the politically disappeared or others missing, and their arrangements as a means of shaking up established hierarchies and settings. 

The work’s aspect of transformation is best viewed at nightfall; when illuminated by means of a light that we as viewers provide (via a flash photo or in the passing of a car’s headlights). A transcendent metamorphosis is revealed through reflection – both physical and metaphorical.

The installation is currently on view through the end of August at Cochecton Spirits, 54 County Road 114, and Cochecton Fire Station, 1 Depot Road in Cochecton. It is made possible in part by a grant from the Lammot Belin Arts Scholarship.