Notes on Heating System Works
Both Hot Water Heat (1984), exhibited at the John Weber Gallery in New York, and Flow Ace Heating (1985), shown at the Flow Ace Gallery (now Ace Gallery), Los Angeles, are room-size networks of pipes, gauges, and radiators, which function as the only hot-water heating systems for their spaces. The pipes loop around, and at the Flow Ace Gallery, the network of pipes extends in and out of three gallery rooms. As soon as people enter the gallery, they become enveloped in the structure of the work, the channeled water flowing all around them.
During the entire midwinter period of their installations, Hot Water Heat and Flow Ace Heating kept their galleries at just the right temperatures. The pipes and the two radiators were often hot to the touch, radiating heat throughout their respective galleries whenever the hot water flowed. The heat also caused a wheel to spin visibly in the window of an eye-level gauge.