Artists Space

Pool Show

May 17 – June 21, 1980

"POOL" presents documentation of 32 artists' installations in an unused swimming pool which took place from December 1977 to the present. This ongoing project was organized by RUSSELL MALTZ. The artists in the exhibition are ROBERTA ALLEN, ANN BAR-TUR, NANCY BURSON, JIM CLARKE, KEVIN CLARKE, JON COLBURN, ELISA D'ARRIGO, KOCHI DOKTORI, PETER DOWNSBOROUGH, ELIZABETH DUGDALE, JOHN FEKNER, REINHARD GFELLER, MARK GOLDERMAN, JANE HANDZEL, RUTH HARDINGER, DON HAZLITT, WOPO HOLUP, TONY KING, DAVID KNOEBEL, ALFRED LARSON, DON LEICHT, SUZANNE MAHLMEISTER, JOHN MASTRACCIO, JUDITH MURRAY, MASSIMO PIERUCCI, LUCIO POZZI, ABBY ROBINSON, TED STAMM, JULIUS TOBIAS, WILLIAM VOORHEST, ROBERT YASUDA, and FRANK YOUNG. These artists will show project proposals, drawings, models, photographs and videotapes of completed works and performances done on the site. The exhibition will occupy Gallery 205, the corridor Gallery and the Entrance Gallery.

This exhibition reflects Artists Space's concern with artists independent activity.

An aerial view of a rural dwelling place.
Maltz, Russell. 1979. Photo: Abby Robinson. [An aerial view of a rural dwelling place.]

Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.
Pool Show. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.]
Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.
Pool Show. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.]
Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.
Pool Show. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.]
Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.
Pool Show. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.]
A four-paneled view of a figure on a couch, or in one case without a figure, in an empty inground dwelling place.
Clarke, Kevin. From Americans on a Red Velvet Couch (Project). 1979. [A four-paneled view of a figure on a couch, or in one case without a figure, in an empty inground dwelling place.]

Pool Show Press Release

Larson, Kay. "Art." The Village Voice. June 2, 1980. Print, 85

Funds for this and other kinds of independent exhibitions are available from the Committee for the Visual Arts.

Artists Space and the Committee for the Visual Arts are non-profit organizations partially supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

    A drained inground swimming pool surrounded by greenery.
    Maltz, Russell. 1979. [A drained inground swimming pool surrounded by greenery.]