The Compact
7’ x 2’ x 1’ 6”
Concrete, steel
2019
2019 Open Studio Fellow
Artist Statement
The Compact is three seven-foot tall cast concrete figures that enlist Cycladic, Greek, and 3D-scanned female forms to examine the compression of individual agency over millennia and our more contemporary assent to the myriad ways we are surveilled, measured, and archived. The figure is made from clearly defined parts loosely held by two threaded rods and patches of mortar. The rebar matrixes that reinforce the concrete reference the inscription of gridded systems on our bodies and our actions.
Eliza Evans
Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 1967
Resides: Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA
Education
MFA, SUNY Purchase, 2017
Oberlin College, 1990