Richard Mock
Environmental Fabric Installation
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
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Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Exhibition Description
For his first New York City one-person show, the artist created an environmental installation of various fabrics. Gauzy, transparent walls divided enclosed, semi-enclosed, and tent-like spaces. Plastic was arranged on the floor. Black and white vinyl curtains bordered a long corridor of white nylon. Bolts of rubberized nylon were draped from ropes and pipes. Various sections of camouflage-patterned cloth, held together with stitches, grommets, rope, and tape reinforcements covered one long wall. Mock provided the viewer with a multitude of colors and textures.
Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972
Richard Mock, Environmental Fabric Installation, installation view, 1972