The galleries feature three floors
of wall drawings by one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
She was well aware
of the wall drawings of artists like Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, and Lawrence Weiner and adopted elements of their practices, like the interface with architecture and the use of language, while rejecting many of the imperatives they established for making their work in favor of creating her own highly original language and precise working methodologies.
Her first major institutional show, a group exhibition
of wall drawings at the Drawing Center in 1992, occurred the year activist Mary Fisher rebuked the Republicans for their policies of silence, tennis star Arthur Ashe had announced that he had been living with HIV for years, and the FDA approved the use of ddC in combination with AZT.
The installation is intended to be on view for a minimum duration of 15 years, and follows in MASS MoCA's tradition of long - term installations, such as the
exhibition of wall drawings by Sol LeWitt.
This exhibition will present an overview of Eamon O'Kane's large scale drawings in charcoal on paper as well as a
number of wall drawings in charcoal.
Through a remarkable partnership with local schools of art and architecture, the
execution of these wall drawings at the Centre Pompidou - Metz fully conveys the spirit of collaboration and generosity advocated by the artist.
Sol LeWitt: Twenty - Five
Years of Wall Drawings, 1968 — 1993, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, April 16 — June 13, 1993.
Like
many of the wall drawings after this, «Wall Drawing # 1» consisted of a system of parallel lines drawn with black pencil on a white wall in four directions.
In partnership with the Centre Pompidou - Metz, and as a chromatic counterpart to this
retrospective of wall drawings in black and white, M - Museum in Leuven (Belgium) shown, until 14 October 2012 twenty wall drawings in color.
Artwork that is part
of the wall drawing exhibit is seen in a gallery inside Mass MoCA on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, in North Adams, Mass. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)
reflecting on the emergence in the 1960s
of wall drawing as a form with radical implications.
In keeping with this tradition, the museum in recent times commissioned the largest collection in the
world of wall drawings by Sol Lewitt, and this year unveiled a new stained glass window by Bridget Riley.
One shape is formed and derived from the artist's body measurements, the other from a
de-installation of a wall drawing, yet both are sealed, finite containers of physical space — whereas the space they evoke is not.
The afternoon «In C» was the first of a week of 14 «Bang On a Can Plays Art» gallery concerts that also included Steve Reich with the repeating
intricacies of the wall drawings of his friend Sol Lewitt; Morton Feldman's meditation «Why Patterns?»
The Imagines (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014); «Sol LeWitt and the (Re --RRB-
Birth of Wall Drawing,» essay in Auf Zeit / For the Time Being, exibition catalogue (Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden - Baden / Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2013).
The works in the exhibition are on loan from numerous private and public collections worldwide, including the Yale University Art Gallery, to which LeWitt designated the gift of a major
representation of his wall drawings, as well as his wall - drawing archive.
«We're marking a big red X» — at points where lines touched or pencils disengaged --» and owning that, so it becomes a field of failure,» Sachs
said of the wall drawing, which would remain in - the - works until all of «Space Camp» was broken down and carted off the island.
Installation
view of a wall drawing by Sol LeWitt on view at Fraenkel Gallery (Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery).
Each
instantiation of a wall drawing is specific to the flexible location and dimensions of the wall on which it is realized (each drawing requires a wall of exact proportions, not size).
In addition to photographic pieces, the exhibition includes a
selection of wall drawings, created first in vinyl and subsequently drawn over in oil crayon.
A retrospective
of his wall drawings opened to the public in 2008 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, where it will remain on view for 25 years.
And indeed, the
edges of this wall drawing, which is titled «Pull Painting 1,» are themselves remarkable, with frayed bits of rope and paper hanging loose, and paint on the wall itself flaking off.
In honor of LeWitt, the great conceptual artist who was born in Hartford and whose wall drawings feature prominently at the Atheneum, Bradford has made his own
version of a wall drawing for MATRIX 172.
This seemingly affirmative, commonly used language contrasting the imaginary landscape of individual aspiration with our real conditions of flawed existence.The work was influenced by interrogation techniques found in the declassified CIA Kubark manual.Titchner will also present a new series
of wall drawings specifically conceived for Cafe Gallery.
This effect is enhanced by the fact that the black and white patterns are not on canvas, but are painted directly on the wall, after the
manner of the wall drawings of the American Minimalist Sol LeWitt.
SO I'm also
thinking of the wall drawings and painted murals that have very eccentric shapes and a ground color, and the color of these seems arbitrary; it's here that you seem to introduce the idea of the arbitrary element.
Finally, the artist presents a series
of wall drawings produced using the surrealist technique of automatic drawing in order to embellish and extend these themes, subconsciously pushing against the edges of how the artist herself constructs many of the characters in her performance work, with a particular focus on the dynamics of power in relationships.
Diverging from his early austere minimalist aesthetic, the vigorous broad
stripes of Wall Drawing # 368 (1982) create a seductive, vibrating expanse.
The main gallery space will be dedicated to a new series of installations,
composed of wall drawings, Plexiglas, picture frames and paper elements.
Studying systems of line and color, his prolific
output of wall drawings represents a breakthrough in his career and solidifies his engagement with two - dimensional practices spanning painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking.
When one is enveloped by the three
walls of Wall Drawing 564, the grid governs which forms recede and which hover in its frames, just as it structures the shifting volumes and forms of 12 x 12 x 1 TO 2 x 2 x 6.
As the conversation evolved, the artist committed to giving a substantial
number of his wall drawings and his entire wall - drawing archive to the Yale University Art Gallery, which already owned an extensive array of LeWitt's art in multiple mediums.
The
execution of the wall drawings at the Centre Pompidou - Metz is an exceptional opportunity for young artists and students in north - east France to work alongside professional draftsmen from the LeWitt studio.
LeWitt's focus on the artistic concept was also instrumental in his
development of wall drawings: large - scale works of art that are completed directly on the walls of galleries and other public spaces.
The making
of the wall drawings at Centre Pompidou - Metz has been the occasion of an exceptional collaboration with professional drafters trained by the LeWitt studio, local artists, and more than 60 students from local art and architecture schools.