Room Temperature could refer to the blasé constancy of the weather in Los Angeles, indoors and out... but more likely to any room anywhere. If we think about how the air in here is flowing through the artworks in an unaltered state we move from architecture to a more primordial form of enclosure, the bubble, a would-be image of creation ex-nihilo. Up to this point all of this is true and now very erotic. – Ben Schumacher, New York, October 2012

Press Release by Ben Schumacher

Press Release by Hugh Scott-Douglas

Press Release by Hugh Scott-Douglas & Ben Schumacher

Installation Views

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Selected Works

Selected Works Thumbnails

Egan Frantz
Let us consider the art of pairing... and persuasion, 2012
Domaine du Moulin Bulle rosé bubbles no. 1 and aluminum composite panel and steel
Dimensions variable

Egan Frantz
Gaston Chiquet and Pierre Gimonnet & Fils blanc de blancs bubbles no. 1, 2012
Artist's champagne bottle, pvc bucket, pvc hose, pigmented distilled water, weather stripping, electric air pump, and brass conduit
Dimensions variable

Egan Frantz
ærorticks, 2012
M&Co. clock and arrow
43.5 x 12 x 30 in
Edition of 5, 1 AP

Egan Frantz
Baguette Sculpture, 2012
UV filtering acrylic glass and screws, aluminum, painted moisture resistant MDF, ground bread, epoxy resin, silicone, clear-coated steel
51.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 in

Egan Frantz
Baguette pans Horizontal, 2012
Aluminum baguette pans and hardware
27.25 x 144 x 1.25 in

Egan Frantz
Baguette pans Vertical Font, 2012
Marble, clear-coated steel with distilled water, aluminum baguette pans and hardware
43 x 7 x 7 in and 156 x 19 x 1.25 in

Egan Frantz
Billecart - Salmon rosé bubbles no. 1, 2012
Artist's champagne bottle, pvc bucket, pvc hose, aluminum composite ring with pigmented cheesecloth, electric air pump, brass conduit and distilled water
Dimensions variable

Egan Frantz
Jacquesson Cuvée 734 bubbles no. 1, 2012
Artist's champagne bottle, pvc bucket, pvc hose, aluminum composite ring with pigmented cheesecloth, electric air pump, brass conduit and distilled water
Dimensions variable

Egan Frantz
Larmandier - Bernier rosé de saignée bubbles no. 1, 2012
Artist's champagne bottle, pvc bucket, pvc hose, aluminum composite ring with pigmented cheesecloth, electric air pump, brass conduit and distilled water
Dimensions variable

Egan Frantz
Pierre Gimonnet & Fils blanc de blancs bubbles no. 1, 2012
Artist's champagne bottle, pvc bucket, pvc hose, aluminum composite ring with pigmented cheesecloth, electric air pump, brass conduit and distilled water.
Dimensions variable

Selected Press

Flaunt

Egan Frantz November 6, 2012

By Matthew Bedard

“Say what you see,” encourages artist Egan Frantz, but do so cautiously. See, when exactingly stringing new language theorems about a gallery space via the metaphysics of objects in beautiful stasis, or repetition—in this case erect baguettes, say, or previously drunk, bucket-submerged bottles of Champers—remember this: “In discourse, we must be like vipers.” So Frantz shares regards verbal dissection of his creations, while pacing his latest installation at Culver City’s Roberts & Tilton gallery, amidst the constant sound of bubbles his cuvees send surface-ward. His position is indeed a viperous one—the works, in their thoughtful serialization, develop a kind of rigorous, exploratory ethics, a language in and of themselves.

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Interview Magazine

Discovery: Egan Frantz September 19, 2012

By Maxwell Williams

Egan Frantz describes his latest work for “Room Temperature,” his solo show at Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, which opens Nov. 3: a system of seven buckets, each with their own fish tank aeration system and filled with empty champagne bottles. “The show that these buckets will be appearing in,” says Frantz, laughing into the phone from his Brooklyn studio, “I didn’t go out planning this, but all the materials—bubbles, baguettes, buckets, bottles, and the list goes on—everything begins with a B.”

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