J.B. Cobb
Time Structures Object Sculpture

May 24–June 11, 1975 112 Greene Street/Workshop

J. B. Cobb, SET TIMER, in Time Structures in Sculpture, installation view, mixed media: wood, masonite, paint, two film loops, two film projectors, projectors lights, 4’x5’4″x12′, 1975

J. B. Cobb, SET TIMER, in Time Structures in Sculpture, installation view, mixed media: wood, masonite, paint, two film loops, two film projectors, projectors lights, 4’x5’4″x12′, 1975

J. B. Cobb, I L C Z F, in Time Structures in Sculpture, installation view, mixed media: wood, masonite, paint, three film loops, three film projectors, projectors lights, 4’x10’8″x16′, 1975

J. B. Cobb, NO STEP, in Time Structures in Sculpture, installation view, mixed media: wood, masonite, paint, slides, slide projector, projectors lights, 4’x6’x14′, 1975

J. B. Cobb, INSIDE OUTSIDE, in Time Structures in Sculpture, installation view, mixed media: wood, masonite, two wire mesh screens, pair of gloves, two slide projectors, projectors’ lights, television camera and set in closed circuit, television camera field of view, 5’2″x3’6″x10’6″, 1975

J. B. Cobb, FIVE TENSES, in Time Structures in Sculpture, installation view, mixed media: wood, masonite, springs, hinges, 4’x2’6″x8’3″, 1975

J. B. Cobb, TWO PLATFORMS, in Time Structures in Sculpture, installation view, mixed media: sheet rock, cardboard, 5’x5’x14′, 1975

J. B. Cobb, THREE ROOM SPACE, in Time Structures in Sculpture, installation view, mixed media: wood, television set, television camera, camera, field of view, 4’x4’x10′, 1975

J. B. Cobb, OCULAR, OPTICAL, in Time Structures in Sculpture, installation view, mixed media: wood, paper, slides, slide projector and screen, closed circuit television – camera and monitor, projector light, camera field of vision, 4’x8’x8′, 1975

Exhibition Description

“The exhibition was organized in three parts, mainly to the uses of time as a structural and organizing concept of spaces, flat and volumetric. The work emphasized the object quality of sculpture in the visual rather than the physical sense, though kinesthetics were important. Architectonic in form, the pieces were constructed of complexes of visual relationships using various media (pictorial, sculptural, architectural, filmic, and television) and materials (light, wood, paint, cloth, masonite, etc.), though the sculpture will eventually be made of more permanent materials (stainless steel, bronze, ferro-concrete).” [artist’s statement made at the time of the show]

Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.