1/7/2024 0 Comments Robert lens iconographerMoMA sent the show to eight venues where it was well-attended and written about and then forgotten. The 1970 exhibition was not quite the “landmark” that the gallery press release claims, unless the word is redefined to mean brave for its time but not particularly effectual. This attempt to recreate MoMA’s Photography into Sculpture wants to bridge that gap. Another departure is that a handful of artists from the 1970 installation-Karl Folsom, Ed O’Connell, Joe Pirone, Leslie Snyder, and Harvey Stromberg-are not represented here.Ĭomments/Context: The difference between an influential exhibition and a prescient one can be vast. (There are 62 objects here whereas MoMA had only 53.) Three pieces are not vintage: Richard Jackson’s Negative Numbers (1970/2011) Andre Haluska’s Self-Portrait with Images (1969-2011) and Robert Watts’s Girl with Mole that Lights Up (1965-1983). When that was not feasible, works from the period (roughly the late 1960s) by the same artists have been added. Methods used to make the work include photo-sensitized canvas stuffed and molded to fit within contoured sheets of Astro Turf (Brooks) photoserigraphs vacuum formed with acetate (Brown/Pennuto) photographs combined with Styrofoam, foam core, or wood (Quarterman) translucent film applied to plastic figures and sandwiched between sheets of Plexiglas (Cheng) hand-colored photographs packaged inside vacuum-formed vinyl and mounted on Masonite and aluminum stands (Stone) gelatin-silver prints on wood (Heinecken) gum bichromate on buckram stretched on wood, with embroidery, acrylic, and pencil (Nettles) and lens, acetate screen, Wilkinson razor blade, timing motor, mirror, halogen light bulb (Victoria.)Īs much as possible, the curators have tried to find the same works shown at MoMA in 1970. The following artists are included in the exhibition: Ellen Brooks, Robert Brown/James Pennuto, Carl Cheng, Darryl Curran, Jack Dale, Michael de Courcy, Andre Haluska, Robert Heinecken, Richard Jackson, Jerry McMillan, Bea Nettles, Douglas Prince, Dale Quarterman, Charles Roitz, Michael Stone, Ted Victoria, Robert Watts, and Lynton Wells. JTF (just the facts): This mostly faithful recreation of MoMA’s 1970 exhibition, Photography into Sculpture, features 62 pieces by 19 American and Canadian artists (primarily from the West Coast) who combined photography and other art and/or manufacturing processes to create “fully dimensional” objects. Work is displayed on two floors of the gallery-on the wall, free-standing on the floor, or on white-painted wooden pedestals, with or without vitrines.
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