Artist’s Swaying Building on Exhibit at UCLA Gallery

A lightweight building suspended from the ceiling of UCLA’s Wight Art Gallery, “floatinghouse, DEADMAN,” by Los Angeles artist Peter Shelton, will be on display in the gallery through March 8.

Viewers can actually step inside the “floatinghouse,” which sways and creaks around them as they enter. The main counterweight, DEADMAN, is a spread-eagle figure cast in concrete and elevated onto blocks. Thirteen other anchor forms fabricated of iron

and steel help balance the “floatinghouse.” They include a gate, bed, pair of feet, skeleton, chair and boat.

The exhibit is open to the public during regular gallery hours: Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. UCLA Art Council docents will conduct tours of the exhibition Tuesday through Friday at 12:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.