It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their
skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic
human rights; that personalities and
homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die
on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter
home after
home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.
You could say that Tillmans, who won the Turner prize in 2000, swapped the telescope for the camera, one kind of eyepiece for another, turning from things that are very far away, like the craters of the moon, to things close to
home - the
skin of an orange, rolled socks
on a sofa, friends and lovers, intimacies both
human and inanimate: rumpled clothing, the clutter
on a windowsill, the detritus of a party, a bowl of fruit.
2011 Nine Faces, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY Three to Five Faces, Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY California Dreamin: Myths and Legends of Los Angeles, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France 2010 Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Seven Faces, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA The Artist's Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980 — 2010, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Group Show 2010, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France Benches and Binoculars, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN At
Home / Not at
Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale -
on - Hudson, NY (curated by Matthew Higgs) Mark Grotjahn, Jonathan Lasker, Sol LeWitt, Allan McCollum, James Siena, James Welling, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York, NY (curated by Jeff Koons) Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2009 Gagosian Gallery, London, UK 2008 Dancing Black Butterflies, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland Blue Paintings Light to Dark One through Ten, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2005 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK Mark Grotjahn: Drawings, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Mark Grotjahn: el gran burrito, Boom, Chicago, IL Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 1998 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA Flowers in the Office, Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA