From the seminal performance work by Rachel Rosenthal, the early queer video work of EZTV, boundary breaking art installations by Barbara T. Smith, the pioneering media explorations by Electronic Café International, to the feminist media interventions of Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz - Starus, these five influential and often overlooked artists and collaborative arts groups were fundamental to charting the course for
the artist space movement and its vision of egalitarian artistic production and reception.
This groundbreaking exhibition, curated by Alex Donis, features the works of five seminal artists and artist groups: Rachel Rosenthal, Barbara T. Smith, Suzanne Lacy / Leslie Labowitz - Starus, Electronic Café International and EZTV; all who have been central to the alternative
artist space movement in Southern California since the early 1970's.
Not exact matches
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian
artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian
artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and
space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian
artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic
movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and
artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.
In the early 1960s, while much of America and Europe was fascinated with the new wave of Pop
Artists, Southern California quietly gave rise to a very different aesthetic revolution known as the Light and
Space movement.
Los Angeles - based
artist Mary Corse creates minimalist paintings, and is associated with the Light and
Space movement that emerged in Southern California in the 1960s.
Mullican arrived in New York in 1973, when the
artist - run alternative
space movement was under way, with 112 Greene Street (later White Columns), Artists Space, P.S. 1, the Kitchen and Franklin Furnace eventually attracting a broad range of artists, experimental filmmakers, dancers and music
space movement was under way, with 112 Greene Street (later White Columns),
Artists Space, P.S. 1, the Kitchen and Franklin Furnace eventually attracting a broad range of artists, experimental filmmakers, dancers and mus
Artists Space, P.S. 1, the Kitchen and Franklin Furnace eventually attracting a broad range of artists, experimental filmmakers, dancers and music
Space, P.S. 1, the Kitchen and Franklin Furnace eventually attracting a broad range of
artists, experimental filmmakers, dancers and mus
artists, experimental filmmakers, dancers and musicians.
«Making
Space shines a spotlight on the stunning achievements of women
artists between the end of World War II (1945) and the start of the Feminist
movement (around 1968).
In this sense, her work is more aligned with
artists who prioritized sensorial experience, like James Turrell, Mary Corse, and others of the Light and
Space movement of the 1960s, than with film or other such time / media - based art.
Patterns of delicate brushwork, poured paint, and a unique use of
space and palette create a complex pathway made from vivid colors and rhythmic
movement, inherent to the
artist's work.
Founded in 1970 as» 112 Greene Street», White Columns was established as an independent platform for
artists and was a pioneering force in the alternative art
space movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
It helps explain how a single
movement has struck different people as formalism or action painting, the pure representation of
space or an
artist's self - representation.
Inspired by European
artists such as Mondrian and Kandinsky, their bold experiments with
space,
movement and colour radically transformed the relationship between art and viewer.
Terms such as
space, perspective, creativity,
movement, and abstraction itself are being explored and illustrated by the
artist via his own popular vernacular.
Los Angeles — based
artist Amir H. Fallah, however, postulates the experience of time and
space as something more solid and tangible, akin to a structure engineered for indiscriminate
movement back and forth.
Ramaya Tegegne's research focuses on the
movement of gossip amongst
artist communities, and her performance lecture Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz (New Jerseyy) compiles oral testimonies to narrate a short history of New Jerseyy, an
artist - run
space in Basel, Switzerland.
This event is part of Decolonize This Place, a three - month project by MTL + that sees
Artists Space Books & Talks converted into a movement space that is action - oriented around indigenous struggle, black liberation, Free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrifica
Space Books & Talks converted into a
movement space that is action - oriented around indigenous struggle, black liberation, Free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrifica
space that is action - oriented around indigenous struggle, black liberation, Free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification.
The
artist Larry Bell was one of the key figures to emerge as part of the 1960s Light and
Space movement, making spare, geometric sculptures that married Minimalism with the high - tech materials then appearing in Southern California's aerospace industry.
The alternative -
space movement of the last few decades has been characterized by
artists developing their own cultural infrastructure to support changing methods of production, in particular performance and emerging technologies.
Almine Rech Gallery - Grosvenor Hill is pleased to present «Plastic Show», a selection of works by seminal California
artists from the Light and
Space movement: Mary Corse (b. 1945), Robert Irwin (b. 1928), Craig Kauffman (1932 — 2010), John McCracken (1934 — 2011), and DeWain Valentine (b. 1936)-- five
artists who, through a series of individual explorations, went on to investigate the broad potential that plastics (i.e., synthetically produced resins) could yield.
A member of the Light and
Space movement since the late 1960's, alongside
artists such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Mary Corse, Helen Pashgian, DeWain Valentine, Peter Alexander and Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill remains committed to exploration and experimentation.
Robert Irwin is a pivotal figure in the Los Angeles art scene for the last five decades and founding member of the «Light and
Space»
movement, but also one of the most influential
artists of the 20th century.
Influenced by the Post-Impressionists, Vlaminck and his fellow
artists rejected traditional three - dimensional
space and sought to build composition with the
movement of color planes.
These three
artists are all associated with the Light and
Space movement in Southern California during the 1960's and 1970's.
The selection also illustrates some of the art - historical traditions in L.A. such as 1960s Pop art, the Conceptual art of the 1970s, Minimalism with its Finish Fetish, the Light and
Space movement, the great and important post-conceptual
movements, and not least all the
artists with a social and political engagement.
Discover how
artists have been inspired by the bicycle and
movement by engaging in this interactive
space.
This period coincided with the blossoming of the abstract expressionist
movement and the pinnacle of Still's 20 - year quest to redefine painting in which «
space and figure,» the
artist wrote, «had been resolved into a total psychic entity.»
Castellani's work was centrally featured in ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s - 60s, a 2014 - 15 exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, that focused on Group Zero, an international network of
artists who pioneered new approaches to light,
movement, and
space in the aftermath of World War II.
The
artists of Le Groupe Espace were concerned with
space in art and were influenced by the pre-war
movements of Constructivism and Neo-Plasticism.
In this brief essay from Phaidon's Art in Time, we explore the diversity of the 20th - century
movement's key
artists to celebrate the opening of Marisa Merz's first major US retrospective, «The Sky is a Great
Space» at the Met Breuer.
Panel discussion about time,
space and
movement with the
artists, Pavel Pyś (Exhibitions and Displays Curator, Henry Moore Institute) and Professor John Mowitt (University of Leeds, School of Fine Art).
By investigating the intersection of American art, East Asia, and the woodblock print
movement, Visions of the Orient explores the various ways that «the orient» served as a liberating professional
space for these female
artists and as a place of creative inspiration.
He has studied the work of
artists in the Southern California Light and
Space movement of the late 1960s including Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler, but his materials diverge from their art.
The
artists created a new model of depicting
space by using only the relationship of color and line without texture or shadow to achieve
movement that projects and recedes.
The
artist aimed to free the figure within
space, focusing on singular
movements and sometimes using double - exposures to create a slow - motion effect.
Inspired early in his career by modern dance — notably through his relationship with members of New York City's influential Judson Church dancers — and Japanese Zen gardens, the
artist sought to create works that engage viewers in
movement, taking in his large - scale sheet - metal pieces by navigating the
space around them.
At the entrance to Gallery 2, viewers encounter Olafur Eliasson's Your Compound Eye, the
artist's first kaleidoscope and among his earliest experiments with modes of perception relating to
space, time, and
movement.
ET: Collectivity, political and social
movement, public
space - you've used these themes to frame a concept of «ecstatic resistance,» which most recently took form as an exhibition of other
artists» work.
The very first photograph taken by Woodman, Self - portrait at Thirteen, 1972, shows the
artist sitting at the end of a sofa in an un-indentified
space, wearing an oversized jumper and jeans, arm loosely hanging on the armrest, her face obscured by a curtain of hair and the foreground blurred by sudden
movement, one hand holding a cable linked to the camera.
She calls herself a writer, vocalist, and sound
artist, but what she really is is an intercultural mestiza — at once an interloper and a translator, an authentic and an inauthentic voice of «the Other,» occupying a
space that most would recognize as peripheral, but is actually
movement itself.
Coinciding with the
artist's 80th birthday, Los Angeles's Kohn Gallery will present a survey exhibition of the Los Angeles
artist Joe Goode, a veteran of the Californian light and
space and conceptual art
movements.
Recognized as a defining force of the alternative
space movement, MoMA PS1 stands out from other major arts institutions through its cutting - edge approach to exhibitions and direct involvement of
artists within a scholarly framework.
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power creates a
space for an array of African American
artists who were deeply engaged in the aesthetic and social justice issues that emerged from the civil rights and Black Power
movements.
Making
Space (until 13 August 2017) shines a spotlight on the stunning achievements of women
artists between the end of World War II (1945) and the start of the Feminist
movement (around 1968).
She is one of the originators of the alternative
space movement, beginning with Under the Brooklyn Bridge, a 1971 outdoor show she organized with installations by pioneering American and European
artists.
The first part of his career is characterised by his afflilation with the Mono - ha group, a Japanese
movement comprising of
artists who, though working in different ways, shared a predilection for natural and industrial materials, and explored the interaction between man and his surrounding
space.
Concurrently with the military - industrial «
space race» leading up to the moon landing, American
artists began to experiment outside of traditional studio practice, intervening at a terrestrial scale to initiate the Land Art
movement.
These ideas are further conveyed in his Hub works, where transitory, connecting
spaces between rooms, such as vestibules and corridors, speak metaphorically about
movement between cultures and the blurring of public and private, as well as reflecting on the passage of the
artist's own life.
Organized by P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center founder, Alanna Heiss, FORTY features work by over 40
artists who were key participants in the 1970s alternative art
spaces movement and the early years of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.
Although Corse, who is still making work today, is often lumped together with
artists of the 1960s Light and
Space movement — Larry Bell, Doug Wheeler, John McCracken — she didn't know those
artists at the time, and wasn't even aware of their work.
This exhibition showcases both a wide selection of mediums and
movements, including Finish Fetish, where
artists such as Ron Davis and Craig Kauffman produced immaculately polished works; and Light and
Space, which produced minimalist, experiential pieces by the likes of Larry Bell.