As Hurricane Sandy powers it’s way to the East Coast, it’s not going to rain on this parade - at least we hope. Nancy Reddin Kienholz continues to install “Ozymandias Parade” at the Pace Gallery in New York, set to open this Thursday, November 1, despite the storm (seen above).
Back on West 25th Street, right in front of the Pace Gallery, a small group had gathered, including a woman with bright red hair. It was Nancy Reddin Kienholz, the widow and artistic partner of Los Angeles sculptor Ed Kienholz. She, Pace’s Peter Boris and a team of art handlers were busy building the couple’s The Ozymandias Parade (1985), a gigantic installation—”a big damn deal,” she said—that includes a bucking horse and a number of menacing, life-size figures.
The show is scheduled to open on Thursday evening and, realizing that the weather may prevent anyone from working tomorrow, they “decided to roll the dice,” she said, to see what they could get done. “We all understand earthquakes in California,” Ms. Kienholz told us. “But we don’t understand hurricanes.” In New York, of course, we understand neither of those things.
IMAGE: via The New York Observer