Randy Colosky: The Air & Space Museum

Curator. San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries: Grove St. Window Installation Site. August - October 2012

The Air & Space Museum grew out of artist Randy Colosky's desire to create a site-specific work of art for passersby that would evolve slowly over the course of the exhibition – allowing viewers to experience the changing installation as well as the complex and interdependent constructs that support it. Colosky’s newly commissioned work consists of an involved synthetic growing station that provides a proper environment for rearing plants ranging from fast-growing groundcover to large sunflowers. Part of the nature of the project is creating the infrastructure necessary to grow plants in a place they wouldn't ordinarily grow, and having the lights, ventilation, dehumidifiers, and water systems all in balance to make this happen without any effects on the structure they are being grown in. The Air & Space Museum is also about technology, innovation and a desire to create something that pushes the boundaries of sculpture and installation. Over the three month installation period the artist will create a stop-animation film that documents the plant growth.