2017 Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art

Wall, is a new installation created to confront visitors entering the exhibition. Fabricated with flattened shipping boxes on which Hargrove has painted towering stacks of blocks in bold graphic lines, Wall is both a physical barrier and a representation, a reality and a metaphor. The configuration of stacked blocks is based on stone piles called “Cairns,” which are scattered on hilltops across rural Scotland. Here Hargrove gathers them together to form another kind of intervention in landscape, one that divides space, geography and sometimes people. Read more…