Michael Neff – Michael Neff is an artist and software product design leader
Description: Artist Michael Neff brings Suspended Forest, a room-filling forest of discarded Christmas trees collected from the streets of Brooklyn, to Knockdown Center for the month of January, 2016
Artist Michael Neff brings Suspended Forest , a room-filling forest of discarded Christmas trees collected from the streets of Brooklyn, to Knockdown Center for the month of January.
This site-specific installation takes a different form than previous incarnations, which took place outdoors under a highway overpass in Brooklyn, in a space fenced off from the public. Neff has addressed the space at Knockdown Center by hanging a grid of 40 trees, which almost fills the room, yet leaves enough space between rows for viewers to walk amongst the trees, setting them gently spinning. The indoor venue and extended period of exhibition allow time for needles from the trees to collect below them,
Previous installations of the piece took place under the BQE in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2012 and 2013. Those were mounted in an unauthorized, unused space under the highway, fenced off from the busy foot traffic along Metropolitan Avenue. Suspended single file below a drain pipe that ran the full width of the highway, those installations were removed by the city within days.
Michael Neff – Michael Neff is an artist and software product design leader