Drawing Of A House (Triptych)

Diana Shpungin’s Drawing Of A House (Triptych), a multi-faceted participatory work consisting of obsessive drawing, sculpture and nine hand-drawn video animations, functioning as one over all monumental installation and community project in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Kent County and The City of Grand Rapids.

Diana Shpungin works under an acutely conceptual framework examining themes of memory, failure, longing and loss. Shpungin’s works employs a painstaking and obsessive process while seeking empathy across identity lines. For Diana Shpungin’s Drawing Of A House (Triptych) it all started with a simple pencil, a fundamental tool universal in its function and familiarity.

The vacant house, a former rectory is converted into a massive public sculpture and three-dimensional drawing by way of it being entirely tediously encased by hand in graphite pencil. While nine painstakingly created hand drawn video animations will be visible and audible as rear screen projections through selected windows of the home, exploring ideas of the domestic and historical memory of the site, --past, present and future, through ambiguous themes of still life, figuration and abstraction. The (Triptych) in the title, Drawing Of A House (Triptych), refers both to the homes address (333 Rumsey Street) and to the three loose narratives taking place on the three sides of the home.