The Albright-Knox Gallery's website really blows chunks. I've been bitching (good naturedly) about their "Extreme Abstraction" show, thinking it was just the four fairly un-extreme artists I mentioned, but it turns out those were just the four participating in the extreme symposium. The website doesn't list the artists in the exhibition! Or if it does I missed it. Does anyone know who is in the exhibit, and if there is anyone more extreme in it than Liz Larner, David Reed, Linda Besemer, Katharina Grosse, and Ingrid Calame? Also, why are Cory Arcangel, Paper Rad, and Tree Wave performing in connection with the exhibit? Are they extreme abstract artists?
Further digging on the Albright site pulled up this para: "'Extreme Abstraction' is a major installation that will open to the public in the summer of 2005. Commissions by leading, (sic) abstract artists, recent acquisitions of contemporary art, and masterworks from the Gallery’s collection will be highlighted together and throughout the entire Gallery to provide visitors with a visual representation of the history and future of abstract art. Artists such as Polly Apfelbaum, Lynda Benglis, Arthuro Herrera, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, and Pae White are only a few of the many artists who will be represented, several of whom will be working at the Gallery on site-specific installations for this exhibition." OK, this gets more blue chip by the minute.
Yeah, I had no clue what it was like, although galleries and museums having crappy, out-of-date, uninformative, confusing websites seems to be the norm. I can't believe how many times I've gone to an active gallery's website to see what's coming up, and it hasn't been updated in months. Does seem better in NYC though.
The exhibition has work from everyone, and it's seriously huge. Off the top of my head, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Damien Hirst, Dan Flavin, Josef Albers, list goes on and on.
Turns out they open the museum to the public every Friday, and always have DJs or something going on whether there's an exhibition or not to get the public in. We're all performing as part of that, but I get the impression that they don't usually fly people in to perform at those events. With the scope of the exhibition, we fit in just fine though. Some of the video installations are similar to the video we project live. They told me their Friday night "events" are actually modeled after the DMA Friday night things.
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The Albright-Knox Gallery's website really blows chunks. I've been bitching (good naturedly) about their "Extreme Abstraction" show, thinking it was just the four fairly un-extreme artists I mentioned, but it turns out those were just the four participating in the extreme symposium. The website doesn't list the artists in the exhibition! Or if it does I missed it. Does anyone know who is in the exhibit, and if there is anyone more extreme in it than Liz Larner, David Reed, Linda Besemer, Katharina Grosse, and Ingrid Calame? Also, why are Cory Arcangel, Paper Rad, and Tree Wave performing in connection with the exhibit? Are they extreme abstract artists?
Further digging on the Albright site pulled up this para: "'Extreme Abstraction' is a major installation that will open to the public in the summer of 2005. Commissions by leading, (sic) abstract artists, recent acquisitions of contemporary art, and masterworks from the Gallery’s collection will be highlighted together and throughout the entire Gallery to provide visitors with a visual representation of the history and future of abstract art. Artists such as Polly Apfelbaum, Lynda Benglis, Arthuro Herrera, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, and Pae White are only a few of the many artists who will be represented, several of whom will be working at the Gallery on site-specific installations for this exhibition." OK, this gets more blue chip by the minute.
- tom moody 7-16-2005 10:55 am
Yeah, I had no clue what it was like, although galleries and museums having crappy, out-of-date, uninformative, confusing websites seems to be the norm. I can't believe how many times I've gone to an active gallery's website to see what's coming up, and it hasn't been updated in months. Does seem better in NYC though.
The exhibition has work from everyone, and it's seriously huge. Off the top of my head, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Damien Hirst, Dan Flavin, Josef Albers, list goes on and on.
Turns out they open the museum to the public every Friday, and always have DJs or something going on whether there's an exhibition or not to get the public in. We're all performing as part of that, but I get the impression that they don't usually fly people in to perform at those events. With the scope of the exhibition, we fit in just fine though. Some of the video installations are similar to the video we project live. They told me their Friday night "events" are actually modeled after the DMA Friday night things.
- paul (guest) 7-16-2005 8:09 pm