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TEXTURED SOUND
Rebecca Bruno + Mak Kern, 2020
Digital Exhibition 02

”He (John Cage) wrote with the microphone attached to the pen, so the sound of the pen moving on the surface of the paper is what you heard.”

- Robert Storr. "The Cage Series: Paintings by Gerhard Richter." 2009, www.gerhard-richter.com/en/videos/works/the-cage-paintings-40.


kind of round and maybe flat


as we move around the object, we notice an edge, from a distance it appears to be a line, slightly convex in the middle from one side and slightly concave from the other.  As we step closer, the line, like that drawn from a pencil, is not smooth, but chatters, it’s not mechanical, but sculptural, it’s not haphazard, but intentional.  The line begins to sway back and forth and with a twist it reveals an ellipse, tall from the top and wide to the side.  



a ripple in the line swallows light



an object comes into view heavy handed as it strikes the ellipse, a delay, then a sound that echoes with closed eyes of cathedral bells.  The object, rectangular in form is mitered at one end with a hue of green in its vein.  A twist, a strike, another echo that reverberates down lost and silent Sunday streets.



a reflection outward

​
Video Courtesy of Objects for Others
Self-isolated screening of TEXTURED SOUND in Little Italy​, Omaha:
Photos Courtesy of Dan Schwalm
Video Courtesy of Ross Miller

About the Artists:
Rebecca Bruno is a dance artist working across performance and visual art. In 2013, Bruno founded homeLA, a performance project dedicated to dance process in private space partnering with body-based artists and Los Angeles residents. Bruno is half of Objects for Others with Mak Kern.  Her works have been presented at such venues as The Hammer Museum, The Norton Simon Museum, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, REDCAT Theater, the Bootleg Theater, Tin Flats with FLAX, The Pit Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, Movement Research NYC, and the LAB, Jerusalem. Bruno collaborates with artists such as Yann Novak, taisha paggett and WXPT, Flora Wiegmann, Julien Previeux, Pablo Bronstein, Samantha Mohr, Emily Marchand, Andrew Mandinach, Lynn Ellen Bathke.
www.rebeccabruno.net

Mak Kern was born in New York in 1969 and lives in Los Angeles. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics and Art and Design. As an artist Mak creates works that are both sculptural and functional. Her work ranges in scale and scope from Sculptural Sound Pieces that are shown in Galleries and Public Art Spaces to functional furniture made for the Home and Commercial Spaces. 
www.objectsforothers.com
© 2017-2025 Maple St. Construct
Website Design by Ross Miller
  • ABOUT
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • THE SPACE
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • SEASON 8 (2025) >
      • PICTURES OF NOTHING
    • SEASON 7 (2024) >
      • THE SILENCE OF LIGHT
      • SEASONS
      • HOME ON THE RANGE
      • DE STIJL TRANS AM
      • SITE WORK
      • FOR RICHER, FOR POORER
      • MATTER SHIFTING SHAPE
    • SEASON 6 (2023) >
      • OPEN STUDIO V
      • NEBRASKAFLAT
      • WORDS HAVE GONE TO SLEEP INSIDE...
      • EN SILENCIO
      • SHOW AND GO
      • OPEN STUDIO IV
      • POST FACADE
      • GANDZASAR AT HIGHLAND
    • SEASON 5 (2022) >
      • WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPEN
      • VENTURING MIDWEST
      • OPEN STUDIO III
      • BROKE EVEN WHEN I BET THE FIELD
      • HARMONY AND DISSONANCE
      • OPEN STUDIO II
      • THE FADE
      • SPIRALING SOLITUDE
      • IMPROVISE
      • OPEN STUDIO
    • SEASON 4 (2021) >
      • Automatic Composition
      • This Will Get Us Somewhere
      • CRUISE CONTROL
      • Off Alondra and Hickory
      • DIG
      • Unfamiliar Appearing
      • Floral Rodeo
      • Shiny Side Up
      • Expecting Snow
      • FORWARD
    • SEASON 3 (2020) >
      • EMPTY SPACES
      • Winter Saturdays are for Spring
      • A High Disregard
      • Between the Void
      • 12:38
      • Precarious as Obtained by Entreaty or Prayer
      • A Morning in Little Italy
      • Past Grounded in Nature
      • Silence and Intimacy
      • Highway Hypnosis
      • Between Nonchalant and Relaxed
      • The Fickle Crowd
      • High Peak Monocacy
      • 251,000 Trees
      • Textured Sound
      • The Room and The Landscape
      • VERNACULAR
      • MOVEMENTS
    • SEASON 2 (2019) >
      • FOUNDATION DRAWINGS
      • DANIEL IN OMAHA
      • SHED
      • Little Italy Abstracts
      • CHARRETTE
      • The Hand and The Arm
      • A Surfer's Time
      • Los Angeles Sunsets and Quiet Landscapes
      • Perspective BLUE
      • No Road Most Traveled
      • POST-NOVIS
      • Pairings
    • SEASON 1 (2017-2018) >
      • KATHY
      • Above The Silos
      • THE BLUES
      • To Be Pigeon Holed
      • The Fool's Journey
      • Wall Assembly
      • The Map and its Porcelain Goat
      • Loose Landing
      • Long Ago, Far Away
      • Victories Over The Sun & Campus Stories
      • Perspective Flood
      • Falling Vertical
      • Textured Blue
      • FLOOD
  • LECTURES
    • 2025
    • 2024
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  • SUPPORT
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    • MERCHANDISE
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    • PICTURES OF NOTHING ARTWORKS
    • THE SILENCE OF LIGHT ARTWORKS
    • 2025 MSC Design Lecture Series Sponsorship
  • CONTACT