Each artist claims a room or
several walls of the gallery, though there is some interplay.
Not exact matches
My goal was a sense
of compression by hanging
several paintings close together on one
wall, while the rest
of the
gallery was relatively spaced out.
The installation by McElheny at the Hessel Museum, described by Roberta Smith as «brilliant», included re-conceived
wall paintings and drawings that McElheny created in
several of the
galleries according to the particular specifications
of Palermo's original, yet now destroyed, works.
Over the course
of several days, moist porcelain from Cornwall, U.K., where the artist was born, will be laid over the
gallery walls — covering an expanse 13 feet in height and over 140 feet in length.
His work has been the topic
of several solo exhibitions including Walking on The
Wall, Nahum Tevet Small Sculptures, 1980 — 2012, Tel Aviv University Art
Gallery, 2012; Nahum Tevet, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), 2008; Nahum Tevet: Works, 1994 — 2006, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2007; Nahum Tevet: Take Two, Le Quartier, Center for Contemporary Art, Quimper, France, 2005; and Opening Moves, Nahum Tevet Sculptures, Museum
of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, 1997.
The installation comprises 22 granite stones juxtaposed with
several minimal columns
of ultramarine paint applied directly to the
walls of the Marian Goodman
Gallery.
Several of Burden's other performance pieces were considered somewhat controversial at the time: another «danger piece» was Doomed (1975), in which Burden lay motionless in a
gallery at the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago under a 5 ft × 8 ft (1.5 m × 2.4 m) slanted sheet
of glass near a running
wall clock.
The new site - specific work occupies all four
walls and the floor
of the
gallery's main exhibition space, with immersive room - wraps and
several new vinyl works.
Sandra Cinto presented «Piece
of Silence» at the Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, an installation
of a bronze flute and
several white string instruments hanging on
walls that were drawn with parallel lines reminiscent
of musical scores.
In terms
of the wide range
of media employed, the show looks like it could have been made by
several different artists: sculptures similar to the ones shown a the Whitney occupy one
gallery; another room boasts huge, scribbly pencil drawings on
walls that surround a replica
of a hearth («the traditional focal point
of the American home»); in another, stacks
of mannequins wearing identical outfits and wigs create a chute through which you can walk to view floor - facing monitors screening videos featuring the real - life character the mannequins seem to be modeled after (the artist's mother).
Projected video documentation
of several interactions dominates the far
gallery wall, and captures the visuals behind the sound, noise, and music from collaborations along the way.
Several dozen drawings line the
walls of the main
gallery.
The installation Chalk Bike at Lehmann Maupin
Gallery in New York comprises an accurate replica
of a bicycle in white chalk and, on a black
wall,
several chalk drawings
of bicycles, which, together with the object, suggest motion.
Setting the tone for severity, the artist commandeered the Brutalist ambience
of the gray, cinderblock - enclosed courtyard adjacent to the
gallery entrance with a prominently placed, bodily scaled, faux - concrete - and - asphalt work from 1994, Cell with Conduit, thrust
several inches out from the
wall by a hefty steel armature.
Several walls at the Hayward
Gallery were taken down to take in the full scope
of this Martin Creed show; less a survey, more a glorious tour
of this Turner prize - winning mind.
Inside, a minimalistic configuration
of white pedestals and a partition
wall convey a curious sense
of vacancy, while
several pairs
of binoculars at the center
of the
gallery inquisitively suggest closer looking.
Elijah Burgher is an artist and writer based in Chicago, IL. He has most recently exhibited in a solo show at Shane Campbell
Gallery in Oak Park, IL and a two - person exhibition at Peregrine Program in Chicago, IL. He will exhibit work in group shows at Johalla Projects in Chicago and Envoy Enterprises in New York this summer. He maintains a hybrid studio
wall / magick diary blog at http://ghostvomit.blogspot.com/. Burgher co-founded and co-edited the now - defunct art publication BAT. He has written reviews and essays for ArtUS and
several small art publications in Chicago, as well as contributed writing to Art: 21's guest blog. He received an MFA from the School
of the Art Institute
of Chicago in 2004, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence college in 2000, where he split his credits amongst Literature, Visual Art, and Cultural Anthropology.
Several months before the opening, the curator invited all
of the artists to design four pages in the catalogue and thus to present current works and ideas on the book's pages, similar to the
walls of a
gallery space.
The work as such is not grouped thematically within the
several rooms
of the
gallery, but rather it is hung aesthetically within a very open white -
walled space such that work in differing rooms and nooks and corners can communicate effectively with one another and with the viewer depending upon one's orientation.
In the upper
gallery,
several chipboard panels from 1987 are painted with industrial paint, leaning against each other and against the
wall, indicating possibilities for adding to, or taking away from, an existing arrangement
of panels.
Indeed, on the cerulean - blue
walls of the Kasmin
gallery are a small museum's worth
of paintings by Magritte, Brauner, Mata, Cornell, Warhol, Copley, and Ernst, and
several early works by Kasmin
gallery artist Francois - Xavier Lalanne — all gathered by the show's cocurators, Vincent Fremont and Adrian Dannatt, who do not want the memory
of Iolas to fade without refreshing the history.
In a monumental salon - style presentation using 18 feet
of the
gallery walls, the show presents
several bodies
of work made throughout the past five years that highlight Stuckey's preoccupations with creating an entirely new pictorial language.
The exhibition features work from every period
of Jackson's career, including
several wall works from the period 1969 — 1988 made by pushing heavily paint - coated canvases across
gallery walls, another terrific innovation
of the painting process.
Each
wall piece contains a tin oxide used in smart phones, one crystal
of Cassiterite, and
several rare earth magnets, combining to change the «electromagnetic charge
of the
gallery space».
The main
walls of the first
gallery are framed in
several layers
of paint, with dark brown, white, and light green delineating only the corners.
Artist and co-founder
of New York's Tomorrow
Gallery, Aleksander Hardashnakov shows
several small drawings pasted to the
walls and interior piping, Adam Shiu - Yang Shaw's «Yucca Rose» and «Beyond Quartzite» are also on the
walls, coming out like small cliffs on a bigger cliff face.
The artist spent
several days chewing and regurgitating pages
of the titular newspaper while perched atop a toilet on an elevated platform, washing the pulp down with milk and ketchup, and expectorating it onto the
walls and floor
of the
gallery.
Martin also refuses to assume that paintings must hang on interior
walls; he will install
several works «in» this show in light boxes affixed to the exterior
of the
gallery, where they are exposed to the elements as well as the gazes
of passersby.
His installation consists
of two similar horizontal wooden structures which relate in color and height to
several 12 - inch - wide horizontal bands applied with ordinary house paint on each
gallery wall.
The
gallery contains
several large works in addition to a small studio archive behind two temporary
walls — giving visitors permission to connect the inner workings
of her process with the resulting, public canvas.
For this installation, which occupies all four
walls and the floor
of the Berlin
gallery's main exhibition space, the artist has created one
of her immersive room - wraps and
several new vinyl works.
I JUST did a post about choosing pictures for a
gallery wall... yours incorporates
several of my ideas at once!