Eunice Golden, Lorraine O Grady,
Hannah Wilke, Walter Weissman in
Concept, Performance, Documentation, Language Show at The Mitchell Algus Gallery Feb 20 – April 17, 2016

Neke Carson – Retrospective Vito Acconci – Seedbed Sonnebend 1972

EUNICE GOLDEN Reorient Human Figure

PARTICIPANTS

Martha Wilson,Vito Acconci, Willoughby Sharp, Hannah Wilke,
Eunice Golden, Neke Carson, Roberta Allen, Adrian Piper, Roger
Welch, Karen Shaw, Jeff Way, Hans Breder, Susan Bee, Marc H.
Miller, Gene Beery, Eleanor Antin, Walter Weissman, Lorraine
O’Grady, Peter Moore, Joan Jonas, Jaime Davidovich, Bettie
Ringma, Mac Adams, Kerry Schuss, Morgan O’Hara, Stefan Eins,
Tehching Hsieh, Jack Smith, Indra Tamang, Charles Henri Ford,
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Trisha Brown, Duff Schweninger, Jared
Bark, James Collins, Betty Tompkins, Arthur Cohen, Christopher
D’Arcangelo, Roy Colmer, Dennis Oppenheim, Marcia Resnick,
Gerald Hayes, Terry Berkowitz, Charles Gatewood, Christopher
Rauchenberg, Stuart Brisley, Lee Lozano, Gordon Matta-Clark,
Bill Beckley, E’wao Kagoshima, Robert C. Morgan, Colette,
Janice Guy, Carolee Schneemann

The Mitchell Algus Gallery presents Concept, Performance, Documentation, Language, a group show of work that employs photography, performance, surveillance, data acquisition and participatory intervention to make art that is narrative, analytical, speculative, critical and documentary.

With 50 artists, most of whom worked–and continue to work–in New York, Concept, Performance, Documentation, Language illustrates the shared interests and common endeavor that animated a loosely defined community of artists from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The exhibition is a meditation on what history gets written and, provided context and equanimity, how that perceived history can be comprehensively and cohesively revised. History is a process.

Interestingly, the current show parallels in part, Jeffrey Deitch’s first curatorial outing in 1975, Lives: Artists who deal with peoples’ lives (including their own) as the subject and/or medium of their work. Many of the participants in Lives were younger conceptual artists engaged in the openly aesthetic practice of vernacular sociology, behavioral psychology, and local ethnography. Unlike first-generation conceptualists such as Sol LeWitt, Joseph Kosuth or Lawrence Weiner whose work was rigorously formal and to a degree academic, these new artists set out to consider real life, their life, and produce some edifying, playful, acerbic, or confounding analysis and documentation of it. Many of the artists also began to broach trenchant questions of personal and group identity, igniting concerns that continue to preoccupy much recent art.

GALLERY (Exhibitions, Artists, Information)

Mitchell Algus Gallery
132 Delancey Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10002
212-844-0074
office@mitchellalgusgallery.com

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