The Shapes Project: Shapes for Hamilton, March 8 - 31, the Clifford Gallery, Little Hall, Colgate University, opening reception March 10, 4:30 pm. http://cliffordgallery.org

Shapes Distribution Events, April 3 – 4 and 10 - 11, in the Villages of Hamilton, Poolville and Earlville, exact times and locations to be determined.

 

Registration Opens February 22nd!

Who Should Register?

If you were a registered voter in the Town of Hamilton, NY as of Dec. 31, 2009 or you are a Colgate student and you're directory information is public your name is already in our database.

If you are not already on either of these lists, you may submit your name, as well as the names of your family members by going to:

http://www.shapesforhamilton.org/registration

Over the past several years, the artist Allan McCollum has developed The Shapes Project, a system that can produce 31,000,000,000 unique two-dimensional “shapes,” more than enough to create an individual shape for every person on the planet.

 

With Shapes for Hamilton the artist will create a unique shape for each inhabitant of the geo-political entity of the Town of Hamilton, New York -- an extraordinary community-wide collaboration between the artist, the townspeople and the students, staff and faculty of Colgate University. At the conclusion of the project – which will include an exhibition of the complete set of the nearly 6000 shapes at Colgate’s Clifford Gallery -- each resident will be invited, without obligation, to collect their own shape provided free of charge and signed by the artist. 

 

Allan McCollum was born in California in 1944, and lives and works in New York. He has spent over thirty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, most recently collaborating with home-based businesses in Shapes from Maine (2009) atFriedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. McCollum has had over 100 solo exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Lille, France (1998); the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (1995-96); the Serpentine Gallery, London (1990); the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden (1990); IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain (1990); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1989), and Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (1988). He has produced public art projects in the United States and Europe, and his works are held in nearly seventy major art museum collections worldwide.

To find out more about Shapes for Hamilton, Allan McCollum and the ICPA at Colgate University please contact Angela Kowalski akowalski@colgate.edu. You can also visit http://www.shapesforhamilton.org/home or the artist's website http://home.att.net/~allanmcnyc/

Support for Shapes for Hamilton comes from The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, the Department of Art and Art History, and the ICPA at Colgate University.