Locations:
Phantom Galleries LA at the Pike at Rainbow Harbor
21 Aquarium Way
Long Beach, CA 90802
This space is for Lease

About the Project:
little dipper is a site-related installation using buckets, bead chain and blue paint to create a ground-level constellation for Long Beach.

The artwork consists of commercial pails suspended in the space. The seven largest buckets align to form the constellation Ursa Minor (the Little Dipper). One pail, representing Polaris, situates the North Star of mariners and pilots in the middle of the Aquarium Way space. In the northern hemisphere, all constellations rotate around Polaris, which appears fixed in the night sky.

Exploring astronomical perspective through the appearance of ‘constellation’ patterns of stars as seen from Earth, Lessick asks viewers to reconsider relationship. The relationship between stars, between sea and sky, the ocean of air and ocean of water, between dippers and buckets. Singluar objects, considered in relation, are lenses and mirrors to grasp the larger world. Through little dipper Helen Lessick asks us to re-view everyday objects with wonder.

About the Artist:
Helen Lessick, a Los Angeles artist, has created site-related installations, public art and exhibitions across the United States and in Europe. She is based in Echo Park. Special thank you to The Pike at Rainbow Harbor.