Basketshop is pleased to present How to Move Heavy Things, an installation by Alec Regan. The artist will place a 1.5 ton limestone boulder in the gallery to be considered for its raw beauty and archetypal thingness.

“Precept 7: The more complex a machine or procedure or setup becomes, the less directly it applies its power. Simple forces applied intelligently should carry the day… This is no snub of wile or cleverness or inventiveness, only a caution against dissipating your efforts in the bother and friction of complication.”
- Jan Adkins, “Moving Heavy Things,” 2004


Alec Regan is an artist and fabricator living and working in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He received a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and is the co-founder of the collaborative artist project, American Fantasy Classics. His recent exhibitions and projects have been presented at Bahamas Biennale Detroit, MI; Enclave Lab, London, UK; Basketshop Gallery; Cincinnati, OH; Arturo Bandini Los Angeles, CA; Usable Space Milwaukee, WI; and the Green Gallery Milwaukee, WI. In 2012 his collaborative project, American Fantasy Classics, was awarded the Greater MIlwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for individual artists.