In his emphasis
on process over product and on the constraint system defining the work, Temkin recalls both the «structures» of Sol LeWitt and Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild, with its ambivalence of authorship within a system.
Emma Hedditch (b. 1972, UK) is an artist and writer based in South London, who often works collaboratively with other artists and groups of individuals with an interest
in process over products.
Kiehl hoped the show would highlight «a relatively underrecognized dimension of the artist's work, one that
stresses process over product and participation over spectatorship.»
I have learned to value
the process over the product because of them.
The gallery's later name, «Park Place, The Gallery of Art Research, Inc.,» adopted when the gallery moved from its original Park Place loft to Greenwich Village in 1965, also indicates the group's interest not so much in promoting a set style or ideology but its commitment to
process over product.
There are many lessons a student or art historian might draw from the exercise — the importance of
process over product, say.