inoSAURS: CORE SAMPLE

John Toth
August 3-October 15, 1990

New York Views, interview with
Roz Abrams and Charlotta Kotik .

"Core Sample is a sequel to John Toth's extended installation series, which uses the extinct species of dinosaurs as a metaphor to elucidate his idea about time, scale, and discovery. Hanging from the ceiling is a work of plexiglass, shaped like fgragments of colossal bones. Bands of striped paintings reach from the floor to the ceiling. Evocative of geological core samples of the earth, they refer to the inexhaustible layers of perceptual information we experience every day." 

Charlotta Kotik, curator