When his grandparents’ Missouri farmhouse burned, Josh Tonsfeld’s family salvaged some things and left the rest. In a creative act of excavation, the New York based artist returned to remove more objects from the debris, including this book, ruined furniture and correspondence, which he arranges in the gallery in a kind of provocative but inconclusive personal archeology of a past American life. (At Simon Preston Gallery through June 2nd).
Josh Tonsfeld, Untitled, book, 2013.