Two in One—Sidewalk and Gallery
Two in One can be hung in two different ways to privilege different scenes. Birmelin has been making reversible compositions since the 1990s, when several events in his life coincided to cause him to begin pondering the subjectivity of memory,…
The morning of September 11, 2001, 8:45 AM
Robert Birmelin on making this commemorative painting: "My studio was on 14th Street and 7th Avenue in 2001, which was the far edge of what closed down that day. I wasn’t in New York on 9/11. I had gone up…
