DANICA PHELPS.(exhibition)(Brief Article)

LFL GALLERY

While most people's efforts to track their expenses fizzle after a few weeks, this activity has been the basis of Danica Phelps's art practice since 1996. Every last dollar gets assiduously recorded with a tiny stroke of color on a small card: green for income, red for expense, and (a relatively new development) gray for credit. Those marks are a constant in a larger, increasingly complex system documenting not only her financial life but also her daily activities and relationships--along with the changing value of her art--making Phelps an obsessive yet whimsical book ...

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