ART BY ARTISTS WE KNOW: SCOT LEFAVOR (PART 4)
The final post in our series on the work of Scot Lefavor.
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ART BY ARTISTS WE KNOW: SCOT LEFAVOR (PART 2)
More from artist Scott Lefavor; much more is on his site.
ART BY ARTISTS WE KNOW: SCOT LEFAVOR
Sadly, Scot Lefavor's show SEECHANGE closed last night at Andenken Gallery in Denver. If you missed it consider yourself a doofus. But before the doors closed we snapped a few photos of some of the work. Very fresh—made us scheme for some sort of furniture-for-art barter (that's more or less how we weasel all the art we crave). Images of all the work, with titles and media, can be found on the SEECHANGE section of Lefavor's site.
ROADRUNNER SHOEFITI: WASHINGTON D.C., HAHNEMANN MEMORIAL AT SCOTT CIRCLE
Some Tillmans are complete deadbeats. Namely Robert K. Tillman in San Francisco and L.P. Tillman in Portland. Said they were on board to bring Roadrunner love to their adopted hometowns then did the Tillman thing: nothing. We worried about Mason Tillman in D.C. for a while—no word, no chuck. So we sent a scout to track him down. Our man found him at the Australian embassy, of all places. He says he was hired to build some cabinets and has been crashing on a cot and drinking Foster's in the room where they store all the didgerdiroos they use in the annual Australian Pride Parade (yes, they really have one). Turns out that he and the assistant to the deputy ambassador—he says her name is Sheila, but our man thinks this might be Mason's way of making fun of him—threw the chair two weeks ago in this little park across the street, next to the monument to Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathic medicine. Mason's a hair of the dog kind of guy.
PRODUCTION PROCESSES: WATERJET CUTTING
Cutting steel with water in minutes, not millenia, mystifies. People get geologic erosion by water of hard things like rock—the evidence to all but the most biblically literal is obvious. But really, water cuts thick steel plate while you wait? True. We use OmniCut, up near 60th and Broadway, to cut the flat steel shapes for our Armadillo, Penguin and Turtle tables. Of course we start with CAD files that are programmed into the cutter's computer controls. The high-pressure water stream includes a bit of suspended abrasive. The results are fast and extremely precise. These photos show the cutterhead at work and some rusty drop in the yard of the OmniCut shop.
CUSTOM WALNUT-SEAT CRANE BENCHES
Alright, so if we're being honest most of the customization requests we get for pieces in our production line make the pieces worse not better. Sad but true. But there are exceptions, and these walnut-seat Crane benches are among them. With our standard blue powder coat on the steel base and paired with a rectangular and slightly oversize Turtle diner. For the 10th floor lounge in the new Spire building in downtown Denver. A very fine building with some very fine views of the city and its surroundings. Thanks to Howly Tillman, who's on the Spire painting crew that's applying the building's finishing touches, for the photos.
SIGNS THAT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS DON'T SUCK: THIS MADNESS ON THE DOWNTOWN SELF STORAGE BUILDING AT 3400 WALNUT
Say you've got a plain block buiding with a sad backside facing an alley and an empty lot in a warehousey part of town in a big American city. You know your sad backside is gonna get tagged. And that may be all well and good with you and your neighbors, but of course in Denver it'll bring on the Denver Partners Against Graffiti and a mismatching and blotchy paintover ("because neighborhoods matter"). And of course that cycle will just repeat and repeat and repeat. Or you could do what the owners of the Downtown Self Storage building at 3400 Walnut apparently did and get a crew in to hit your spot once and for good. Looks like the same crew that worked on the Erico Motor Sports building we called out a few posts back. Fresh again.