Heavens 2002
Heavens, Alan J. “Tool Time Sublime: A Washington Exhibit Turns Tools into Creative Jewels, Celebrating the Artistic Essence and Essentialness of Our Gadgets.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 29 March 2002. (Type: article) Visit link » Download PDFReview of Tools as Art VI: Instruments of Change at the National Building Museum, Washington, examining artists’ transformation of everyday tools into sculpture. Selected from the Hechinger Collection, the exhibition included works by Jean Tinguely, Arman, Jim Dine and Susan Dorothea White, among others.
“Tools,” said Brouwer, “are what make us human and ideas possible. … Tools also can make a statement seemingly unrelated to work. Susan D. White uses two hedge clippers with black gloves and white gloves at either end in It Cuts Both Ways, a commentary on racial harmony."
