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[Stylized white text on a tan background reads, "Western Agenda." Small black text above the white text reads "March 14-May 4, 1991 / Artists Space" while several lines of smaller, spaced out text spells out words such as, "courage" "hardwork" and "prosperity."] -
"Identity". Installation View, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [In a dimly lit room with light wood flooring and white pillars, three illuminated screens are suspended side-by-side from the ceiling. Two of the screens are off. The screen to the far left displays an image of a 19th century painting of a female bartender.] -
Wall Drawing. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Multi-wall drawing of various figures visible in gallery space.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure in a red sweater sits in a chair on stage. Two microphones are positioned around them. They hold a wooden stick and a red bell up.] -
[Three human sized creatures with the heads of rabbits stand in front of a fence which has barbed wire at the top. Yellow text in the center reads "an ARMY of LOVERS CANNOT FAIL."] -
Carissa Rodriguez, You Know the Rules. You Fall in Love. You Lose. Filmed by Jordan Lord, recaptured by Rodriguez through her Pokémon Go app. [An animation of two screengrabs from a phone, each showing the Pokémon "Gastly" above a computer screen with text reading "Whenever you do not understand what's happening in your life, just close your eyes, take a deep breath and say, "God I know this is your plan just helpme through it."] -
Kiki Smith, Untitled, 1991, Fired enamel on glass with shelf, Glass: 18 x 18 in / 45,7 x 45,7 cm Shelf: 4 1/2 x 20 15/16 x 5 in / 11,5 x 52,9 x 12,7 cm, Edition of 50. [The image shows a figure's face composed of black lines and etch-marks on top of a transluscent background. The image rests on a wooden shelf.] -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 9, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [A figure wearing a suit plays guitar, their feet dangling over a pedal.] -
We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [Four upright bags with images on them sit on two different leveled shelves on a white gallery wall.] -
Tracy Benissan, Untitled, 2014 [A drawing of several glasses of varying shapes holding colorful liquids suspended on a flat background] -
Marvin Torffield. Sesondo, 1974. Three coat plaster on wire lathe with nova ply and Masonite. Installation view, Artists Space, 1974. Credit: Marvin Torffield. [A color installation photograph of a figure in front of a curved white wall in a gallery space.] -
Sigmar Polke Das Palmen Bild , 1964 (Boxers) © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Photo: Daniela Steinfeld [An illustration of two green palm trees on a diagnal, sloped down to the bottom left corner, pale yellow triangle. The background contains a pattern of dark brown, gray, red, and yellow stripes.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring hannah baer and Cyrus Dunham. March 12, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a light blue background. The top left corner reads: hannah baer / Cyrus Dunham. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, March 12, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."] -
Dream Lines: Marian Zazeela. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Various small drawings on paper in india ink and pencil hang on a white gallery wall. The works in pencil feature a looping ornamental symbol, drawn in various orientations within the individual box units of gridded paper to form larger structures.] -
[Black text overlays a color-scheme grid background. The text reads: “Dec 9 / Jessica Laser / Jillian McManemin" Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
Louise Bourgeois Jitterbug, 1998 Lithograph, 18 x 24 in / 46 x 61 cm, Signed & Numbered. [Two red and blue spidery forms interlace, floating in the center of the page atop a blank sheet of staff paper.] -
[Four framed drawings on a wall depicting chaotic, colorful scenes of crowds.] -
Alza Tu Voz, exhibition at Washington Heights Public Library, 2017 [A photo of a front desk in a library - several desks with computers, bookshelves, and a couch are also visible. Four paintings lie on top of the bookshelves, depicting stylized figures against block color backgrounds] -
Miguel Angel Rios, Morir ('til Death), 2003. [A collection of black spinning tops on concrete. Several are upright, spinning, and several have fallen onto their sides. A white grid is just visible on the ground beneath them.] -
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo. [Photograph of a basement gallery space with various multimedia works displayed. In the center is a large wooden platform placed on the floor. Along the back wall is a projected video, a grid of works on paper, and a woven hanging piece.] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 18, 2022, 7:30pm. Artists Space, New York. [Two figures move a table on wheels.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. [A color photograph of a figure standing behind audio mixing equipment and a microphone in front of an orange background. A crowd looks on.] -
Jutta Koether, xxapollo. Performance documentation, Artists Space, January 5, 2020. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A person dressed in all pink extends a pink heart-shaped canvas over her head in front of a rapt audience. There are light spots reflected at even intervals patterning the room.] -
Oto Gillen, Daisy (Perry Street), March 19, 2023, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a large print of a close-up photograph of a fake daisy, with white woven petals and a yellow center.] -
[Black text overlays a pixelated gradient pattern in various hues of pink and yellow. The text reads: “Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE / Winter/Spring 2024 Season / April/May Curated by Futurepoem” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “Saturdays at 5pm: 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom"] -
Social Surfaces. Installation view, Pearl River Mart, 2017. Photo: Ron Amstutz. [An opened case, with camera equipment resting inside gray foam, is displayed in the center of a room. A large black and white painting with text is hung on a wall underneath a hanging sculpture. In the background, individual papers of beer logos are displayed behind glass, stretching across two connecting walls.] -
Johanna Went performing at The Hong Kong Cafe, Los Angeles. Photo: Ed Colver [Black and white image depicting a performance. The artist is standing in the center of the frame and wearing spotted tights and cowboy boots. The upper half of their body is enveloped in a large plastic foam fabric, which covers their torso, face, and arms. Affixed to the large fabric construction are clusters of plastic takeout containers. Audience members are visible in the foreground.] -
Martha Wallner and Miriam Loaisiga. Still from Con Guerra O Sin Guerra (With or Without War), 1987. Video (sound, black and white). 20 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles. [A small girl stands central in the image with a microphone near her mouth and a shirtless boy stands behind her to the left. A chain-link fence can be seen behind them next to a concrete building. Subtitles burned into the bottom of the image read, "Why can't men come in?" Scan lines in the image and the outer box of a CRT monitor are visible.] -
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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Sasha Banks and Derek McCormack. Saturday, October 31, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Keith Higginbotham [Photographs of an opulant room are collaged together, creating a view of a single space with multiple perspectives. White text centered on the image reads "Sasha Banks / Derek McCormack," and black text below reads "Segue."] -
Attention Line. Installation view (costumes worn by Johanna Went, 1970s-2000s), Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [A brightly lit photograph of three human-sized costumes in front of a wall.] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A dimly lit, empty room filled with several low chairs. A projection illuminates a dark wall opposite the chairs. The projection displays an image of a figure, their index finger blotted purple, inserting a document written in Arabic into a machine.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a beige background, with red accents throughout. Pieces of yellow paper featuring typewritten text listing the performers and event details are cut out and scattered throughout the flier.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure dressed in black stands behind a microphone and stretches their arms above their head.] -
Gedi Sibony Animal Scramble, 2013, Archival inkjet print, 14 1/4 x 13 1/2 in / 36,2 x 34,3 cm (image size), 24 x 20 in / 61 x 51 cm (paper size), Signed and Numbered. [Assorted animals, including tropical fish, birds, reptiles, a cat, dog, and rabbit are drawn in black marker on yellow paper.] -
Terry Fox: All These Different Things Are Sculpture. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak [ A color image of the corner of a gallery space. A row of four small speakers, evenly spaced and held on small wooden shelves, span the left wall. On the right wall, a collection of six framed black and white photographs are arranged in a grid. Each frame is black, with three on the top and three on the bottom. ] -
Danica Barboza, Omnia - Mercurial, Interposition. Installation view Galerie Buchholz, Cologne 2019. [On a white wall two artworks on paper and of the same size hang side-by-side. On the left, nine pencil drawings in no order depict the same figure from different angles. On the right, nine small blocks of text with white letters on a black background sit in orderly 3 x 3 rows.] -
[White text overlays a background of a close-up picture of grass and grey rocks. The text reads: “April 15 / hannah baer / Early Shinada." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A photocollage of the same image, a man opening a car hood, repeated 14 x 4 times includes has been altered with white, yellow, and black paint in individual photographs. These include scenes such as fire, melting, and the addition of new characters.] -
Millie Wilson, The Painter Who is Not One, 1990, detail. Acrylic on canvas, text, type, photos, wall paint, 13 by 25 feet, variable. [A small square of illegible text, an abstract image of two black squares on grey, and a painting of a person in period dress and a top hat all hang on a blue wall.] -
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Dave Burns, SEACH FOR TRUTH, 2003. Digital photograph, archival light jet print. Courtesy the artist. [Two men wearing identical white shirts and blue jeans crouch outdoors at night. The figure on the right grasps two tree branches with both hands. His pants have been dropped to the ground and he sticks his bare rear out. The second figure on the left is fully clothed and crouches behind the other figure, shining a flashlight at his rear end.] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [The bright beams of a projector cut through the fog filling a basement room. An image is projected onto one of the space’s walls. Several figures talk to each other in the background.] -
[A white poster giving information about a virtual reading event. There are overlaid gray and white images of a statue of an angel with a sword, and two figures in beak masks. Orange texts reads “Frederic Tuten/Vi Khi Nat/Virtual Reading/18 April 2020/5:00 PM E.T./Artists Space x Segue Series/Zoom Meeting ID 378 232 576] -
[Red background with white text and border which reads: "DUMP THE FINE ART OF GENTRIFICATION," with the Decolonize This Place logo positioned underneath.] -
Demonstrations outside the opening of Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, Artists Space, 1989 [Protesters standing in a line hold a variety of signs with statements such as "Helms impedes the 1st Amendment," "Obscene Art?", "I have no taste," and "No taxation without artistic representation"] -
Scan of Christopher D'Arcangelo book page. Kunstverein Publishing and Artists Space. Photo: Heji Shin. [Scan of a spread of two pages in a book. On right-hand page, a red apple sits on its side. The right-hand page features an image of a coin changer with a white paper tag attached to it.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [An audience watches a performance, smoke and an orange light fill the room.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery space. Various musical instruments and audio devices are placed around the back room, photographs and vitrines hang on the walls, and various television monitors and projections are placed along the sides of the room.] -
Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A color image of a gallery space. On the left, two tree log sculptures rest on pedestals. To the right, two shovels standing upright on pedestals flank a taxidermied griffon vulture that sits amongst a pile of concrete rubble. In the center, the top of a shovel afixed to a small childs chair is placed up against the back wall.] -
Jeff Koon. Installation view, Artists Space, 1983. [A black and white Duratrans on a lightbox of a portrait of a child holding a crayon with a box of crayons and a small book lie on a desk in front of them under their crossed arms. This is on a wall with the plug for the box coming from under the left side.] -
Drake Carr, Mel Ottenberg, 2023. Colored pencil on paper. 26 x 21 inches. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of an unframed colorful drawing of a male-presenting figure. The figure is crossed-arm and sitting back in whats seems like a sofa. A cup of coffee sits on his right, and a potted plant and a vintage-looking radio are on his left.] -
Richard Klauber. Installation view, Ruth Hardinger, Richard Klauber, Artists Space, 1975. [A color installation photograph of a white abstract painting with black lines on a white wall.] -
Lukas Duwenhögger: Undoolay. Installation view, Artists Space, 2016. Photo credit: Jean Vong. [An off-white curtain hangs from a wooden four-poster bed frame. One side of the curtain is partially open, revealing a patterned chaise lounge and a framed image on a blue chain.] -
Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid, still from Axis of Life, 1987. 6 minutes. [A person smiles widely in close up, facing the viewer. They are lying on their side so their head is horizontal.] -
David Kulik, Frank Majore, Kevin Noble, Ken Pelka, Pat Place, Rene Santos, and Brian Weil. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Photographs hanging on walls in a gallery space with a doorway on the right.] -
Wolfgang Tillmans,still life (Bühnenbild), 2020, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [Photograph of a series of objects clustered on a dusty shelf, illuminated by soft daylight. Two identical green vases and two clear cups sit on the right side of the shelf. A photograph of several tomato plant stalks and other flowers is causally propped behind the leftmost vase. Stacks of paper, a plastic bag, and used candles are scattered behind these objects. Small text at the lower left and right corners of the image reads, "2020Solidarity - Wolfgang Tillmans / A project by Between Bridges."] -
Hani Rashid, Corset Shop in Paris, 1985. Mixed media with ink, old paints, acids, chalks, 33 x 24 inches. [Drawing with various stools and faces in the center rectangle with lines emerging under it stretching towards the bottom.] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [A figure stands in the center of the image, juggling several small white balls above their head.] -
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Urban Pornography. Installation view, Artists Space, 2001. [Three framed photographs installed in the corner of a gallery space with white walls and wooden flooring. Two darker, square photographs with large white frames are installed on the corner's left wall, while a lighter photograph of a gate-like structure is installed in a slim black frame on the corner's right wall.] -
Dara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978/9. Videotape still. [VHS-distorted image of Wonder Woman holding up her fist, from which emanates a burst of energy.] -
The Founders Dinner, 2019. [A color photo of two smiling individuals seated at a banquet table, the person to the right has her hand on another guest's shoulder. The background depicts several other guests out of focus.] -
Student Presentations at Artists Space, 2021 -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a gallery space with large panels of adobe with paintings of various figures on them. Adobe bricks are laid out on the floor to create a small walkway.] -
Andre Cadere, 11 December, 1976, David Ebony Gallery, New York, 13.00 to 17.30, Photograph by Gianfranco Gorgoni Digital print Image size: 10 x 8 in / 25,4 x 20,3 cm Paper size: 11 x 8 in / 27,9 x 21,6 cm Signed and numbered certificate [Black and white photo of Andre Cadere holding a striped stick over one shoulder and crossing the street in New York City.] -
Nayiel Walker, Self Portrait, 2018 [An abstract painting, mostly blue, purple, and black, with splashes of yellow and pink. Several of the brush strokes take on a vaguely anthropomorphic association.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [A view through a doorway into a white-walled gallery space with drawings on the walls and a banner on the windows.] -
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[A hand extends its fingers admist a shower of droplets of liquid. A bright light shines on the hand and droplets.] -
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ART CLUB2000 Untitled (Individual Viewing Station for Interviews with Artists on the Year 1970), 1997 CRT monitor with videos of Vito Acconci, Simon Cerigo, Henry Flynt, Isa Genzken, Alex Katz, Les Levine, Niki Logis, Olivier Mosset, and Carolee Schneemann Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A display of nine CRT monitors showing nine individuals in a bluish hue.] -
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Sistema Sandinista de Television. Still from Golpes de la Corazon (Blows of the Heart), 1983. Video (sound, black and white). 30 minutes (excerpted). Spanish with English subtitles. [A figure holding a sword in the middle of a man and woman with a car visible behind them. Subtitles burned onto the bottom of the image read, "Aha, I found you." Scan lines in the image and the outer box of a CRT monitor are visible.] -
Mel Kendrick, Dinnever Hill. Installation view, Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white installation photograph of a gallery space. Placed on the floor, canvasses of dark rectangles on white backgrounds lean against a white wall.] -
Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, Duane Linklater. Installation view, Artists Space, 2019. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Installation view of a gallery filled with projectors arranged on the floor around three large black columns in the middle of the room. Each projector is projecting a bright white test screen onto white walls, aligned so all play at the same height. A wooden wardrobe stands in the foreground of the image against a white wall.] -
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo. [Photograph of a corner of a gallery, with printed and woven works along one wall, next to a row of TV flatscreens on another wall. In the center of the space is a large wooden platform.] -
Scott Burton. Pastoral Chair Tableau, 1971—1974. Installation view, Scott Burton, Pamela Jenrette, Artists Space, 1975. [A color photograph of six chairs in front of a blue curtain.] -
Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A photograph of a large gallery. In the center of the room, a person gazes at large, geometric sculptures.] -
Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Julie Ault, Miwon Kwon, Robert Storr. steidldangin, 2008. Hardcover, 400 pages. $200. at the Artists Space Bookstore [A blue book cover that reads, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Julie Ault."] -
Based on a True Story. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A wide shot of a gallery space with three columns. At the base of one column is a colorful, flat piece. On the large wall behind that column, three paintings hang in a horizontal line. To left of that, several framed drawings are arranged in a horizontal line. Against the perpendicular wall, there is a plinth with a television and several headphones.] -
Rent check envelope prop, c.1970s. Copyright Jack Smith Archive. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels [A discolored envolope, stained and frayed, with cursive handwriting that reads "The Lobster Lucky Landlord Paradise".] -
Gary Falk, Brigid Kennedy, Ladd Kessler, Peggy Yunque. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [A dim photograph of dark curtains and sculptures in a gallery space.] -
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Exchange Show: Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Performance, Artists Space, 1976. Photo: Robert Longo. [An close up black and white image of an individual with their fingers crossed behind their back.] -
Spring Exhibitions. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [A large room with wooden floors. In the right corner, there is a wall creating a corner that is covered in colorful wallpaper with images of tropical birds on trees. Several framed pictures are displayed on one side of the wall, partially obscured by a white column. To the left, there are three standing plinths with glass tops, housing dried brown plants.] -
Four Scottish Artists. Opening Reception, Artists Space, 1979. [A photograph of the exhibition opening reception. A group of visitors look around at the art.] -
[A flyer for the event depicting a stylized green marshland. Light green and red text positioned at the top of the flyer reads, "A CELEBRATION OF OUR STRUGGLES / THREE MONTHS COME TO A CLOSE / DECOLONIZE / THIS PLACE / DEC. 17TH AT 6PM / 55 WALKER] -
[A screenshot of the google images search results page for the query "the problem with contemporary art is not the contemporary."] -
We Are The History of the Future: Listening to the LES online presentation, My Story Our Story Quilt, P.S. 140 7th grade students [A screenshot of a video call presentation. Two students are placing strips of white paper together; they are creating a paper quilt. They are flanked on the right side by the images of ten individuals who are joining the call remotely.] -
Milford Graves, Bikongo-Ifá: Spirit of the Being, 2020. Wood, tabla, acupuncture model, bata drum, Nkondi figure, George Washington Carverbust, compass, glass, peanuts, LabVIEW animation, monitors, bells, plasma, lamp, globe, eagle figurine, alarm clock, collaged paper, printouts, copper wire, paint marker, metal fasteners, casters. Dimensions Variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a sculpture composed of three monitors, drums, a human figure sculpture, and topped by a small sculpture of an eagle in mid-flight.] -
Gerome Kamrowski. Facets of a Dome, 1960. [A dark black and white photograph with various shadows visible.] -
[The inside of a room with a window looking out onto a view of Manhattan. The rightmost third of the image has been digitally altered such that it appears to warp and glitch.] -
Dream Lines: Marian Zazeela. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Fish-eye view featuring various clusters of framed works on paper hanging on three white gallery walls.] -
What is the Sound of Water? Listening Booth -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure to the right stands on stage and performs in front of an audience, shown to the left.] -
Mark Morrisroe: From This Moment On. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A white wall displaying eight papers. On the far left, there is a drawing of a knife with the handwritten text "Cutthroats for Hire." The seven other papers feature type, handwriting, and photos.] -
Rachel Harrison, April 2020, 2020, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [A digitally-collaged image featuring an abstract drawing of a female figure. The figure has been depicted in bright pink, purple, and red hues using sporadic linework. Areas of red color frame the left and bottom sides of the drawing. White text on the red surface is partially cut off by the image's frame. Black text at the top edge of the image reads, "April 2020 1w," while white text below the drawn figure reads, "on view now." Small black text running along the image's bottom edge reads, "2020Solidarity - Rachel Harrison / A project by Between Bridges."] -
Abasement #66. Performance documentation, October 9, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A close-up color image of two figures performing. One plays the drums, and the second figure plays the double bass. To their right, a large black speaker, and a microphone. Images are projected onto the back wall. The room is illuminated with red and blue light.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Candice Hill-Montgomery. [Black and white photograph close up of white picket fence and painted dark background.] -
[A blue book cover with text that reads, "The Truth About Hollis, W.J. West."] -
Laurie Simmons: Photographs. Postcard, Artists Space, 1979. [A fully furnished miniature living room containing a couch, midcentury television set, antique radio, rug, and paintings hung on the walls. A doll made to look like a woman sits on the couch.] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A string of light bulbs decends from the celing of an exhibition space, with the end of its wiring resting on the ground below. A framed image of a figure's face is installed high on the wall directly behind the light string. A small cardboard box with gold details sits on the ground to the right of the light string.] -
Tiffany Sia, A Wet Finger in the Air, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A photograph of three TV screens stacked on top of each other. Two small speakers are visible on either side of the TV screens.] -
Pool Show. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.] -
Yasunao Tone performing Paramedia, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, 1990 [Black-and-white photograph of two figures sitting behind tables filled with audio equipment. They are focused on manipulating the audio machines in front of them.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up image of a glass display case holding, images, books, and handwritten text. On the wall above is a paragraph of text that reads, " Anyway, dear Taylor, I will visit all the soft and dark spots in our town. I will walk backwards on old Endleman's fence, I will stare at the old books and try to place what words went with which conversation about whatever it was you said. I'll go to church and eat fruitcake, sweep the pavement, water the flowers, hose out the garage and tell our fathers about the big city, I might even have a few drinks to show them how much I have changed. And I will come to the cemetery and tell you how different it all is, and what it's like up here hanging on year after year."] -
[A sideways image of a photograph sitting on top of an open book. The photographs shows four people sitting next to each other. The book page is split with a column of text and a black and white image of a billboard that reads, "Growing with Birmingham!"] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery space with white walls. Two vitrines are built out of the walls, and contain various ephemera. Above the left vitrine hang black-and-white photographs. Above the right vitrine, placed over a window, is a blown-up image of a man kneeling with his head to the floor.] -
ART CLUB2000 Kaputtmachen im Graz, 1994 Printed vinyl, carpet, and boombox Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A view of a large image of multiple individuals sitting and standing in a defaced bedroom. A yellow boombox sits on a black carpet.] -
New Red Order Give it Back, detail, 2020 Acrylic LED displays with cut vinyl, water cooler, poster, couch, desk, chairs, magazine rack, The New Red Times Magazine, and three televisions. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A wide angle image of a mockup real estate office consisiting of a table,chairs, a water coolor, and multiple tv monitors. The windows are lined with real estate listings and on the wall reads "New Red Order"..] -
[Books, with series numbers (1-20) marked at the top of the spine, rest on an encolsed shelf against a white wall.] -
Four Scottish Artists. Opening Reception, Artists Space, 1979. [A photograph of the exhibition opening reception. A group of visitors look around at the art.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure dressed in white, laying on the floor of a dark room. The figure has one leg raised in the air, shining a light from their pelvic area onto the floor and wall across from them. A small TV monitor sits in the corner.] -
Contemporary Architecture - an installation by realities:united. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [In a gallery space, a large white overhead LED-style sign acts as both a drop ceiling and overhead lighting. It displays two numbers, a 2 and a 5. Below are a black sofa and, facing it, a small television on a wooden pedestal.] -
Terry Fox: All These Different Things Are Sculpture. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a freestanding white wall that emerges from the left side of the frame into the gallery space. On the wall, there is a row of six items including two handwritten documents, a drawing, a map, a mounted TV screen displaying a black and white image of a cloth and a small white shelf that holds a plexi box. In the background, a black and white projected image of a fork and spoon is visible on a back wall. ] -
Duane Zaloudek. Untitled, 1983. [An image of a wooden chair next to a wooden desk with a frame being prepared on top of it. They are placed on a wooden floor against a white wall.] -
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Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab. The Transborder Immigrant Tool, 2007–ongoing. Pages excerpted from The Transborder Immigrant Tool publication. Courtesy the artist, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and University of California, San Diego. [English version of the poem “You can survive without eating anything for three weeks in hot weather…/En climas cálidos, puede sobrevivir hasta tres semanas sin comer nada...” is written in the top-left portion of the page while the Spanish version is written in the lower-right. A grey line of varying widths divides the two languages.] -
Murray Reich. Two Ply, 1989. [A plywood board with rows of circular holes cut out of it overlays a black rectangle with blue and yellow lines on it.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of yellow, pink, and orange paper. Pieces of paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A photograph of an empty room, dimly lit with chairs in the background, where a projection is playing on the wall. The projection displays a courtroom depiction of two individuals, one with blonde hair and fair skin wearing a suit, the other tan with dark facial hair wearing a keffiyeh. Behind the seated men is an image of a man sitting on the floor, in what appears to be solitary confinement.] -
Drake Carr, Tonne Goodman, 2023. Colored pencil on paper. 40 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of an unframed colorful drawing reasting on a wooden easel. The drawing shows a figure elagantly sitting cross-legged on a black chair. In the background, two painting are on the floor laying against the wall.] -
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Jutta Koether: xxapollo. Performance documentation, January 5, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A person dressed in all pink, holding several sheets of paper, speaks into a microphone. Her arms are draped with masses of cords. A crowd of audience members surrounds her, some seated and some standing.] -
Immanent Madness. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985-86. [Drawing of an axe attached to a tree branch. Line of the paper visible in the background. Written on upper left: "Forest/Nesescity". Written on the upper right: "Oct 31, 1985. G.W." Written on the bottom: "Axe-Tree. "Tranquility vs. Self Preservation = Survivor.""] -
Installations by Jurgen Partenheimer and Stuart Wilson. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Three figures appear in distinctive dress flowing through space around each other as if in a duel amongst themselves with a black background.] -
Poster for No Total Weekend, May 29-31, 2015, Artists Space. [A teal circle on a white background with several names written around the perimeter, circling the midpoint of the circle. White text on the right side of the circle reads, "May 29-31. 2015 / No Total Weekend." The rest of the text spells out the schedule of the event.] -
Andy Robert, Pocket Money (a little pocket money; a chase, a bill, away—to runaround), 2021. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a small framed white envelope, folded in half, with an abstract pen drawing of a face on it.] -
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Still from Hicham Gardaf, In Praise of Slowness, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. [A color film still depicting a person who walks up a dirt path carrying a myriad of empty plastic bottles. To the person's right is a billboard facing away from the camera.] -
Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view(Ruin, 2023; Untitled, 2023), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a gallery space. To the left, a taxidermied griffon vulture rests on a branch protuding from a section of a tree. Rusted, chain link fence is interwoven into the bark of the tree. Off to the right, a small shovel afixed to a childs chair is placed on the ground.] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Silver, italic text displayed across the top edges of two adjacent white, gallery walls reads, "Death Sentence 2009 Love It To Death 1971 Jesse… 989 Moon over Miami 1991-95 Archive." Two images hang on the wall below the text. To the right of a white column positioned in front of the wall hangs a separate drawing. Orchid plants sit to the left of the column on the ground.] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image taken between two curtains of a TV affixed to a wall on the right, displaying blue-tinted video footage of the performance with a fresnel lens hanging in front of the TV display.] -
Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (Wishing Well (Korpi), 2023/24; There's something happening here, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [In a large dark room, a modular structure is recessed into a raised floor covered with black carpet. The structure is lit in bright blue light, and hosts open water. Red light shines in the back room.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr., Divine Agent, 2022. Wicker pannier, plastic, copper, brass, conservation glove, moonshine jug, solvent transfers, plywood, brass, wooden owl figurine, dyed silk. Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a gallery space. Two small paintings hang on the wall between concrete columns set into the wall. In the foreground, a large wicker pannier is visible. Two strips of police tape can be seen in the right corner of the frame.] -
Hito Steyerl, Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War (New York: Verso Books, 2017). [A book cover with large text and a digitally altered, skewed human face blurred behind the title.] -
Stéphanie Smith, still from Untitled (Tissue), 1994. Video. [A close up, blue and white halftone image of a figure wiping their mouth with a handkerchief. Their mouth is partially open, exposing their teeth, and a lipstick-like material is smudged around their mouth.] -
Still from Ganja & Hess, picturing Marlene Clarke, 1973. [A woman screams as a trail of blood runs down her chin.] -
Friends of Artists Space Annual Dinner, 2022. [A color photo of several individuals engaged in festivities and banter within a large reception space. Light and dark red overhead lights shine onto the guests in the event.] -
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SCRAAATCH, Tower of Babel, 2019, Les Urbaines. Photo: Mathilda Olmi [A crowd is pictured in front of a performer. Behind the performer are three large colorful projections.] -
[The Decolonize This Place Logo in red text.] -
Erik Lavesson, Harmony Grunge Cruise control, 2012. Photo: Milena Büsch. Contribution for PROVENCE Issue E – MADAME (Autumn / Winter 2012 / 2013). [A mostly unclothed person lying face-down on a messy bed.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure in a red suit preforming in front of a seated audience. The figure sits at a tanker desk with a TV monitor placed on top of it. They have papers taped and placed over their face.] -
Dream Lines: Marian Zazeela. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [White gallery wall featuring various small framed works on paper, some featuring abstract ornamental bands, large concentric shapes against black ground, clusters of curled black lines organized into a square shape, and pencil-shaded boxes on gridded paper in various geometric shapes and configurations.] -
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The Issues of Our Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Adam Reich. [To the right, a gray silhouette of a woman with her hands on her hips is installed on a white wall. Exposed wires run from an electrical socket to the left of her legs to a box on the ground. A television monitor sits on the ground in front of the back of a projection screen positioned between two standing speakers.] -
Edited by Sophie Collins, Currency & Emotion: Translations (Test Centre, 2016). [A brown and white book cover depicting several forearms and hands wrapped around each other against a dark background.] -
Andrea Fraser, Reporting from São Paulo, I'm from the United States, 1998. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nagel Draxler. [A woman interviews Francisco Weffort, the Brazilian Minister of culture, holding out a TV microphone.] -
The New Normal. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [A white gallery wall with several components. On the floor, there is a television with a cracked screen. Above that, a protruding shelf holds several booklets. There is a framed image with white text written on a black background, in the style of subway text, with the F and J train symbols below. Next to that, there is a standing white plinth with a glass covered top, housing a single tiny object. On the far righthand side, there are three framed photographs. One is a single image of a person wearing a blue shirt divided into two frames, and the other a hand holding out a holstered gun.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of three figures, wearing conical costumes made of reflective one-way mirror film, standing at the doorways of a gallery space.] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view, Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation view of a gallery space with six glass vitrines positioned around four metal colums. A drum set and television monitor are also visible in the space.] -
Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Two photographs are mounted on a white gallery wall.] -
Shala Miller & Malcolm Peacock, with Amiri Baraka's Cellar Vigil. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A gallery space with three columns running down the right side. Projected onto a wall on the left is a video still of a woman in a red blanket hunched over. Two projector screens can be seen on the far left wall. In the back is a ramp which leads to the doorway of a wooden camper structure.] -
Chang Yuchen: Coral Dictionary Vol. 1: 2019-2022. Performance documentation, April 28, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Lane Lang. [In a basement space, an audience watches as a figure sitting behind a white table reads into a microphone. On the back wall behind the figure are two projected videos featuring a notebook, pieces of coral, and an image of the ocean.] -
Bases of the equestrian monument to Kaiser Wilhem which was destroyed by the British occupation in Münster after World War II. The photographs were printed as post cards in the early 20th century and collected from eBay and oldthing.de in 2021. [A black and white photograph of the base of a monument in a city square. Steps lead up to a pedastal surrounded by three large spheres connected by a metal chain.] -
Dream Lines: Marian Zazeela. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Five framed works on paper, one individual work on the left and a cluster of four on the right, hang on a white gallery wall. Works feature abstract, calligraphic strokes in black ink on paper. Individual work on the left includes hand-painted text reading "3 concerts, improvised music. La Monte Young - sopranino saxophone, Angus MacLise - hand drums, drone, 8-12pm Sundays - August 12, 19, 26, 10-4 Group Gallery, 73 4th Avenue, contribution $1.50" ] -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view (memory of barbers touch, 2022; Poems 1 -6, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a close-up of a floating vitrine on a red wall, with four small paintings hung in a series above the vitrine. Inside the vitrine are six pages, with poems written on them and drawings of flowers decorating the pages. Thefour paintings above the poems depict Black Queer figures in darkened environments with gold, and colorful accents.] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a TV screen playing blue-tinted video footage of the performance with a fresnel lens placed in front of the screen, distorting the image.] -
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Willie Cole A.R.T. (in the new world order), 1994, Oilstick on framed blackboard, 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm), Signed & numbered. [A black chalk board displays various words written in white chalk. The word "ART" in all caps boldly appears as a header and twelve additional words are written below. Four words are crossed out with red chalk.] -
Artists Space Curator Jamie Stevens speaking with P.S. 140 Portfolio Students [Two people stand in the foreground: one person holds a notebook and points to a page while the other looks on.] -
Laurie Simmons: Photographs. Postcard, Artists Space, 1979. [A black and white image of a dollhouse living room, a doll is sitting in the right corner, on a couch, next to a side table with radio on it.] -
Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972–2009. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A disco ball reflects multicolored light spots across a room lit by pink and yellow hues. On the floor sit a second disco ball, a silver glittery hat, a silver chain, and a white convertable toy car.] -
Portrait of Carman Moore. [A color photograph of a figure from the chest up. Moore wears a green collared shirt and looks directly into the camera. He stands in front of a translucent glass background, in whose reflection buildings are faintly visible.] -
Lukas Duwenhögger: Undoolay. Installation view, Artists Space, 2016. Photo credit: Jean Vong. [Multiple paintings are hung on white walls, some in rounded frames, depicting various people in outdoor settings. Suspended from the ceiling is a sculpture in the shape of an inverted cone and covered in artificial plants. Multicolored streamers hang from the base of the sculpture.] -
Gianfranco Gorgoni, André Cadere, 1976. Courtesy Galleria Minini. [A black and white photo of a man standing on a cobblestone street in New York, with the Twin Towers in the background.] -
The Friends of Artists Space Dinner, May 8, 2010. Julie Ault's speech. [A woman in a dark dress with shoulder-length auburn hair stands before a microphone in a gallery space, reading from a sheet of paper. She looks up from the paper to gaze in front of her.] -
Kelly Poe, Leave, Take, Kill, 2004. Courtesy the artist and Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles. [Yellow text on a brown background reading "LEAVE NOTHING BUT FOOTPRINTS / TAKE NOTHING BUT PICTURES / KILL NOTHING BUT TIME."] -
MTL+, Water Is Life. 2016. Courtesy the artists. [A blue flyer with the text "Water is Life - No DAPL" with a graphic of an eagle holding the neck of a snake in its beak.] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view, Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation view of a gallery space. Several handpainted LPs line the left wall. A television monitor is visible in the back corner with two chairs in front. A red tunic hangs above the monitor.] -
Still from The Empty Plan (2010). [A person is standing at the end of a stage, dressed in a long coat, with a stern expression on her face. A man sits at a desk in the corner, his head in his hands. There is a white trifold screen behind them, with an extra chair, and a banner written in German.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of three individuals captured amidst lively conversation. Two individuals in the group have their backs facing the camera, attention focused on a woman in the center. A variety of party guests seated at different tables in an elegant venue can be seen in the background.] -
Hito Steyerl, Guards, 2012. HD video on freestanding screen with sound, 20 mins. Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York. [A portrait oriented video is projected in a dark narrow space. A bench sits in front of the video. An image-still of a man, gesturing towards the viewer with both hands together, is on the back wall.] -
Local Transit. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A gray wall with dozens of drawings arranged in rows of four. The drawings depict single buildings in black on white paper. In front of the wall, a gray object stands on a white plinth.] -
Untitled (scrapbook), date unknown, Copyright Jack Smith Archive, Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels [A light colored paper with four photographs. Two images are the same, which feature a scene involving people and various props. The photograph at the top right features a man with a blue face posing next to a black and red sign. The image at the bottom left includes three people posing near one another.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr.: Mirage Collar. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a blye and white ceramic jug on a small wooden stool. Next to the jug is a color control strip.] -
Salad Days. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A black converse shoe with a white sock. Extending out of the shoe is a white plastic false shin with a metal bone coming out of the top.]
