We didn’t know the Kohler company had artists in residence, but why not? Alex Schweder has been that artist three times, essentially earning him the right to make toilet art. If you think that’s funny, you aren't a working artist; experience working with ceramics and plumbing must be liberating, not to mention prestigious. At a new show, “Ours,” Schweder exhibits three large-scale experimental-ish pieces, only one of which is a toilet-urinal hybrid that encourages, shall we say, cooperation between the male and the female genders. (If the artist is lucky, some of our brilliant local transgendered people will comment wittily upon it.) The second work is an installation of exploratory scratch-and-sniff wallpaper, and the third is an inflatable couch you and a friend can sit on, carefully, together. Get up too quickly, and your friend’s butt slams to the floor. Remember, you had to cooperate on the toilet.
July 29-Sept. 19, 2009
