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[Two black and white portraits appear in blue circles atop a salmon-colored background. A text panel near the left portrait says "MAKING WATER, LAURA JARAMILLO." A text panel near the right portrait says "Mirene Arsanios, The Autobiography of a Language: Essays and Stories."] -
John Knecht. I'm Glad To The Brink Of Fear, 1986. Video Installation. [A black and white photograph with two images of faces illuminated in the darkness and text underneath.] -
Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of four framed works displayed in a horizontal line on a white wall. The drawings, made on black paper, depict abstract compositions made up of white lines, arrows, circles, and illegible textlines.] -
[Black text overlays a color-scheme grid background. The text reads: “Jan 13 / isaiah a. hines / Elizabeth Robinson." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
Darien Urena, Living Brick, 2018. [A close-up photo of a snake plant in a white pot next to a brick wall, in front of a mural with somoene's instagram handle painted on.] -
[White text overlays a bright fuchsia background. The text at the top reads: “Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE / Fall 2025 Season / October/November curated by / Nightboat Books"] -
[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!"] -
Jana Euler: Unform. Installation view, Artists Space, February 21, 2020 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [In the foreground is a slug sculpture leaning against a cast-iron column in a white-walled gallery space. In the background slug sculptures forming circular ring shapes can be partially visible around columns and two square paintings are visible on walls adjacent to one another.] -
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.] -
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.] -
G. Peter Jemison, Apple Blossom Furry (Daffodils), 2000. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a painting, done on a paper bag, placed on a white pedestal. The painting features an apple blossom tree, with a light blue sky in the background, and green grass. The tree is painted over a blue square in the middle of the bag that reads "Mikasa."] -
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.] -
MS 324 group work, collaborative drawing, 2019 [Five people's hands work on a colorful, abstract drawing with the drawing at the center of the image on a wooden table.] -
We Are The History of the Future: Listening to the LES online presentation, weaving a North Star, P.S. 140 7th grade students [A screenshot of a video call presentation. Several students are seen holding strips of white paper. They are flanked on the right side by the images of ten individuals who are joining the call remotely.] -
[A black and white, vintage photograph of a male figure leaning casually against a low wall by a river. The figure's long back faces the viewer, and we cannot see his face. He wears a short piece of cloth at his waist, while his upper body is bare.] -
[White text on a blue and grey ombré background. The text reads: “March 22 / Sibyl Kempson / Timmy Straw.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Artists Performance Series. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. [A black and white photograph of a gallery space. A television monitor is placed on a bench on the left, and two figures look on from a couch directly across from the screen. Hanging on the wall to their right are four framed works.] -
Gary Falk, Brigid Kennedy, Ladd Kessler, Peggy Yunque. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [A dim photograph of mulitple sculptures placed in the exhibtion space. A couple of black curtains are hung in the gallery.] -
Salad Expo. Performance documentation, Artists Space, 2004. [A person with sunglasses on a motorcycle. Behind him, a man in sunglasses sits on a stool playing a saxophone. There are three floor fans blowing toward the two people. The walls on either side are lit with a pink light, and the back wall with a yellow light.] -
[A Frida Kahlo painting and portrait of woman against a black background.] -
Lise Soskolne, Film Still: Characters, 1999. Oil on canvas, 66 x 108 inches. [White text arranged in two columns on a black background. Film roles, such as "Desk Clerk" and "Beauty Queen" are listed on the left, with names of actors on the right.] -
[White text on a bright fuchsia background. The text reads: “Oct 4 / Sophia Dahlin / Bianca Rae Messinger.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
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. Names of individuals are weaved together digitally in a quilt-like fashion. These names are flanked on the right side by the images of ten individuals who are joining the call remotely.] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A white T-shirt hangs on a clothes hanger placed on a cylinder of plexi which is affixed to a white gallery wall. Down the middle of the shirt in vertical orientation is a six-digit phone number. In front of the wall and to the right of the shirt is a low plinth made of MDF, with a newspaper placed on top. ] -
MTL+. Palestine, BLM and Boycott in the Arts, 2016. [A flyer for the event depicting a stylized map of Israel in red, on a yellow background. Text reads "Palestine, BLM & Boycott In the Arts: A conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley, Jasbir K. Puar, Amin Husain & Marz Saffore / Friday Nov. 4th 7pm."] -
DJ Princess Julia. [A black and white closeup of a person's face. They have blunt bangs and dark, dramatic eye makeup and lipstick.] -
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.] -
Cover of What is Contemporary Art for Today? And what should it be for if anything?, Perić Collection, 2025. [A book cover features white text on a red background that reads "WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY ART FOR TODAY?/And what should it be for if anything?"and a small photograph of the inside of a restaurant with red booths and wooden chairs.] -
On Being an Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [The interior of a Soho loft space. Its central column is collaged with photographs and printed paper with a small stack of materials on the floor next to it. On the left is a wide dark doorway to another room. In the distance is a bench, images on the wall in a grid, and a TV on the floor. There is wall text to the right and a wall shelf with photocopied papers on it.] -
Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Various people having conversations and looking around at the art during the exhibition opening.] -
Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Six artworks are mounted to a white gallery wall. On the far left and right are three black and white compositions, followed by a photograph of the back of a walking figure. At the center are two colorful, abstract compositions on paper.] -
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Danh Vo: Autoerotic Asphyxiation. Installation view, Artists Space. 2010 [An expansive space with a grid of white columns, sheer curtains cover windows lining the back wall.] -
Wade Guyton, Kathy Halbreich, Andy Robert, Joan Jonas. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A group of people sit around a circular dining table. Wade Guyton and Kathy Halbreich are on the far left side of the frame. Andy Robert and Joan Jonas face each other and are mid-conversation. Robert wears a diamond-patterned sweater, black jacket, and black, red, and yellow striped beanie. Jonas wears a black jacket over a blue blouse with small red polka dots and scalloped edges, and her hair is held out of her face with a decorative clip.] -
Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two video monitors installed on a freestanding wall in an exhibition space. A woman stands in front of the leftmost monitor, which displays a bright, red image. A larger monitor to the right displays a cool-toned scene of an ocean. White text superimposed over the image reads, "Death Mask III."] -
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Hilary Kliros. Installation View. Artists Space, 1986. [A sculpture of a woman stands on a pedestal looking into a glass window pyrimidal construction with a large bug on top and a TV monitor underneath.] -
Keeph, Artists Space construction site no. 2, 2020, digital photograph [One figure is looking at the ground with their back facing the camera and another painted figure appears frontally looking down. They both are around a bright light emerging from below. A black wall covers the right half of the image.] -
Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A color image of a gallery space. In the foreground, a shovel sits upright on a pedestal. In the midground, a taxidermied griffon vulture is perched on top of concrete rubble. Next to the griffon vulture, another shovel sits upright on a pedestal. To the left side of the image, a shovel attached to a small child's chair is placed up against the back wall.] -
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Zilia Sánchez. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two light blue panels of canvas displayed on a light mauve wall. The canvases are positioned side-by-side such that they form a square shape. Two semicircles are depicted on each of the canvases, which together form a white circle in the center of the two canvases. At the center of the circle, the edges of each of the canvases stretch outward to form two protruding flaps that curve towards and on top of the opposite canvases.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Plastic bags of objects appear on a white gallery wall.] -
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Portfolio Development, Blue Sky Gallery exhibition (an homage to Virgil Abloh), June 17, 2022 -
Deborah Willis. From Embracing Eatonville: A Photographic Survey, 2010 [A woman looking at herself in a handheld mirror while getting a haircut at a barbershop] -
Jenny Holzer. Poster, 1982. [Magenta pink background with black text that reads, "YOU GET AMAZING SENSATIONS FROM GUNS. YOU GET RESULTS FROM GUNS. MAN IS AN AGRESSIVE ANIMAL; YOU HAVE TO HAVE A GOOD OFFENSE AND A GOOD DEFENSE. TOO MANY CITIZENS THINK THEY ARE HELPLESS. THEY LEAVE EVERYTHING TO THE AUTHORITIES AND THIS CAUSES CORRUPTION. RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD GO BACK WHERE IT BELONGS. IT IS YOUR LIFE SO TAKE CONTROL AND FEEL VITAL. THERE MAY BE SOME ACCIDENTS ALONG THE PATH TO SELF-EXPRESSION AND SELF DETERMINATION. SOME INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL BE HURT. HOWEVER, G-U-N SPELLS PRIDE TO THE STRONG, SAFETY TO THE WEAK AND HOPE TO THE HOPELESS. GUNS MAKE WRONG RIGHT FAST."] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of bright yellow paper. Pieces of paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.] -
Leslie Hewitt, Make it Plain, 2006. C-print. [A large, framed photograph of two books, a wooden rectangle, and a photograph stacked vertically on each other. There is a second photograph offset to the right in the image.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Installation view, Artists Space, September 16, 2022 - December 3, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [A picture of a gallery space with a phonebooth in the foreground. Behind the phonebooth is a reflective wooden base, and some plants. There is a video projected on a wall in the back of the space.] -
Abasement #78. Performance documentation, June 16th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of five performers on stage. They are playing bass, violin, guitars, and drums. A row of audience members are visible in the foreground, with their backs to the camera. A blue projection covers the performers and the back wall.] -
Sanya Kantarovsky, Growth VI, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a watercolor painting. Against a purple and brown background, emerge flowers with bright blue petals opening up in the middle of the composition. In the background, other blue flowers, and plants surround them. A pair of eyes, nose and mouth are painted over the largest blue flower placed in the middle.] -
Invitation fot Sigrid Burton, Bruce Colvin, Ellen Phelan, Artists Space, 1976 -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of the corner of a gallery space. Half of the right wall has been painted blue, and a yellow painting of Black Queer figures in a barbershop is hung on the wall. Three soft sculptures are placed, evenly spaced apart along the floor, all depicting different figures.] -
Film Still for Leave Her to Heaven, 1945. [A woman in a white dress with gold bracelets and red lipstick leans against a tree. Her left arms rests on a tree branch, and her right hand is on her hip.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley at Artists Space, co-presented with Frieze New York 2023. Performance documentation, May 19th. Photo by Vanessa Diaz/CKA. Courtesy of Frieze. [Color photograph of two figures preparing to perform. In the foreground, out of focus, is the side profile of a figure playing a white keyboard, with music sheets in front of them. To the right, in focus, another figure sits on a wooden chair, eyes closed in concentration and behind a microphone stand.] -
Listening Room, recorded compositions, collage and ceramics 2025 -
Abasement #63. Performance documentation, July 17, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a band of performers playing music on a stage together, colorful and patterned projections illuminate the group and the wall behind them. In order: group includes a keyboardist, a bass player, a drummer, a trumpet player and two saxaphone players.] -
Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure stands on the stage with a mic, speaking to the crowd.] -
[A book cover with an image of a hallway with tan and brown checkerboard tiling with a door at the end. Sunlight is filtering through the windows of the door, reflecting on the floor. Superimposed text on top of the photo reads "SUMMER OF HATE" and under it, "Chris Kraus".] -
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Abasement #79. Performance documentation, August 11th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers are on a stage, batehd in purple light. On the left, a performer plays the guitar and on the right, someone else plays the drums.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure wearing black, holding a long wooden stick over a reflective surface with an orange construction net over it.] -
[Black text on a green background. The text reads: “Dec 7 / Deborah Meadows / Kamelya Omayma Youssef.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Contact sheet of installation views, Artists Space, 1979. [Contact sheet of installation images showing artwork hung up on walls .] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a dimly lit basement. Along the back wall, on the left, a shadow of a figure in profile is cast onto a blue and purple projected screen.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Sue Landers and Monica de la Torre. December 17, 2022, Artists Space. [Light blue and teal text overlay a purple background with abstract lines and an upside-down drawing of a male bust in the top right corner. The text in the middle reads "Sue Landers / Segue Reading Series / Monica de la Torre."] -
Portrait of Dorothy E. Roberts. [A black woman stands, smiling, with her arms crossed in front of her. Behind her is a small fountain inside a courtyard.] -
[A diagram superimposed across a blurry image of a wooden folding chair facing a small wooden bookshelf filled with colorful books. The diagram is composed of a simplistic icon that loosely resembles an open book. Circling the book icon are several hand-drawn arrows that point to various handwritten words and phrases, such as "PDF's" and "Followed remotely." Below the book icon are hand-drawn drops of liquid and a puddle.] -
Catalogue Cover, Annual Selections Show, Artists Space, 1985 [A white square in the center of the image has a number of black and white 35mm slides on it. Underneath this image in white reads, "Selections / From the Artists File" and on the bottom of the image in white reads "Artists Space" with a dark letter 'A' in a white square above it. Black fills the background of the image and text.] -
Hito Steyerl, I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production, 2013. Two channel HD video with sound, 29 mins 28 secs. Courtesy of the artist. [A monitor suspended in the middle of the room on a pole displays an image of Hito Steyerl speaking at a podium. Stacks of pillows, forming a seating area, surround the view of the monitor.] -
Abasement #78. Performance documentation, June 16th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of three performers on stage. The performer on the left is sitting at a table with a tape deck, the performer in the middle is playing cello with a bow, and the rightmost performer is standing with a microphone. One audience member is visible in the foreground. The musicians, as well as the wall behind them, are bathed in an abstract light projection.] -
[Four framed drawings on a wall depicting chaotic, colorful scenes of crowds.] -
David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren, Self-Portrait of David Wojnarowicz, 1983/84, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [A collaged image featuring a black and white photograph of a figure with short, dark hair wearing a partially unbuttoned shirt against a white background. The figure crosses their arms casually in front of their chest, their right hand holding a lit cigarette. Bright red and yellow strokes of paint resembling fire flames have been painted over the photograph, emerging from the figure's right side. Fragments of a world map have been collaged over the left side of the figure's face. Additionally, an illustration of the Earth and several small illustrations of clocks are collaged along the figure's right arm. A small illustration of a running figure, engulfed by flames, is positioned next to the figure's right elbow. Small black text running along the image's bottom edge reads, "2020Solidarity - David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren / A project by Between Bridges."] -
The columns held us up. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A projection on a wall in a dark room shows an image of a man holding a boombox with the text, "SELF PORTRAIT (2006), Burt Barr, American, b. 1938" displayed to the right of his figure.] -
Jordan Kantor, Untitled (Pasolini), 2004. Oil on canvas, 52 x 96 inches. Courtesy the artist. [A black and white oil painting depicting a person lying facedown on asphalt.] -
Dr Andrew Torres, Teaching Artist leading a poetry class for Grade 8 students, 2022 -
Split/Vision. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985-86. [A number of framed images appear on the wall, on the left there is an organized section of 16 and 8 are hung horizontally next to that grouping.] -
Matters of Sensation. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [Three gray objects rest on separate rectangular, white plinths in a gallery space with wooden flooring. Each of the objects is rectangular and has a 3D, biomorphic form.] -
Yasunao Tone in Concert with Barbara Held. Performance documentation, January 19, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A figure sits on stage in front of a crowd and looks to the right as text is projected onto the right wall.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. [A color photograph of a figure standing in an orange-lit space next to a small piece of audio equipment with a wire on the floor. A crowd looks on in the background.] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [Two figures stand facing one another, smiling. One wears a baseball cap and the other holds a camera.] -
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Robert Longo, c. 1976. From Exchange Show: Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, Artists Space, 1976. [A grainy black and white image of a figure seated on an indescernible animal or object.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [A number of sculpted objects lie suspended from the ceiling in front of a wall with other sculpted works and a nearby drawing is also visible.] -
Kristin Lucas, still from Cable Xcess, 1996. [A grainy image of a person's face in striped tones of blue, orange, pink, and green.] -
Five Spanish Artists. Installation View, Artists Space, 1985. [In the foreground is one dark painting image and in the background is a painting of a figure coming out of a square brick chimney-like structure with marking above them. These two paintings appear in a white-walled gallery space.] -
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Bill Hayden, It's Get Better. [An irreverant cartoon promotional poster with text in grafitti.] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A crowd of people fill a dimly lit red room, some sitting and some standing. Projections of abstract images and an illuminated painting cover three of the space’s walls.] -
Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972–2009. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A pile of multicolored string lights sits on a wooden floor, surrounded by assorted objects including a disco ball, a candlestick, and two pitchers. There is a pink glow over the objects, with another strand of white lights weaving through the objects.] -
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Selections from the Artists File, installation view, Artists Space, 1986. [A number of wooden sculptures appear in various shapes in a white-walled gallery space.] -
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 wave a red object in the air.] -
Activated Walls. Installation view, Artists Space, 1993. [A wooden chair facing the corner of a room. Painted on one wall is an empty red frame. On the perpendicular wall, there are several half-finished paintings of children.] -
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Constantina Zavitsanos, the one who knows may show the one who knows (detail), 2024. Digital print on dibond. 30 x 30 in. [A photograph made in a two mirror Schlieren system with knife edge shows the silhouette of a hand holding a small lit flame in front of a round mirror, staged in a black surround. Typically invisible, heat waves are visible along the golden shadowy gradient of a telescope mirror. At the bottom a candle’s wick and its mirror image break the circle.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view featuring various ephemera from Personal Problems, c. 1980, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up of a glass display case holding images and multiple booklets of text.] -
Renee Gladman, Slowly We Have the Feeling: Scores, 2019–22, pastel and pigment on paper (grid of nine), dimensions variable. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of nine framed works displayed as a grid against a white wall. The drawings are done on black paper and depict abstract compositions made up of colorful shapes and strokes, and white lines and arrows.] -
Abasement #75. Performance documentation, February 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer sitting on a stage. Their right arm is reaching out to the side with their hand open, and their left arm is bent in towards their heart with a closed fist. They are wearing a white dress. Their hair and dress are tined by a green light. The wall and column in the background are patterned with multicolored abstract projections.] -
Teaching Artist Stephanie Costello with 8th grade Portfolio student from P.S. 140, 2021 -
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Judy Rifka. Installation view, Deborah S. Freedman, Judy Rifka and Ernest Silva, Artists Space, 1975. [A black and white photograph of a dark geometric painting over a wooden background.] -
A New World Order III: The Curio Shop. Installation view, Artists Space, 1993. [A black and white photograph of a room filled with plinths of varying heights, several objects suspended from the ceiling, and a pile of small fans with a mess of wires sitting on the floor.] -
Jason Simon, still from Vera, 2003. 25 min. [A woman seated on a couch wearing a green button-down shirt captured mid-laughter.] -
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville. Still from Lei et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), 1970/1976. 16mm film transferred to DVD, (sound, color and black and white), 60 min. Courtesy Contemporary Films, London. [A person stands in line to hold up a black and white photograph in front of a Super 8 camera, as two people are lined up behind him.] -
She Who Is: Adrienne Kennedy and the Drama of Difference. Installation view, Artists Space, February 29 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Three glass vitrines displaying books, photographs, and other paper ephemera in the center of a gallery space. A film is being projected on the back wall of the exhibition space.] -
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Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A photograph of three paintings hanging in a row on a white gallery wall. The closest to the camera, on the right, shows a ship at sea, the center shows a fountain, and the painting on the left is an abstract composition of black diagonal lines.] -
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.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of visitors standing around a gallery space, conversing and studying the works on the wall.] -
Nandi Loaf, Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, ricardo nagaoka, Sydney Schrader. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [A twinkling black Christmas tree stands in the foreground as the gallery walls recede. A few paintings hang on the more distant walls. ] -
ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999. Installation view, Artists Space, November 21, 2020 – January 30, 2021. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A view of multiple works including CRT monitors, a vending machine, a tulip chair against a seafoam colored wall, and a glass display table backed by tiled photographs.] -
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Poster for the original production of The Owl Answers at The White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut, 1965. Courtesy the Harry Ransom Archives at UT Austin, Texas. [A light pink paper with black typeface announcing the premiere of two plays, AM by Otis Bigelow and The Owl Answers by Adrienne Kennedy. Other printed information includes the time, date and location of the show, the board of directors, and the director.] -
Gregg Powell, video still, c. 1977. [A black and white image of a figure in a field, they bend at the waist and place their hands on their knees.] -
Abasement #67. Performance documentation, January 15, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer standing in the midground of the image with their back towards the audience. They are dressed in all black including a black beret. Both of their arms are raised with a bend at the elbows. In their right hand, they hold a straight object, perhaps a conductor's baton or drumstick. They grasp an oblong object in their left hand as well. Speckled purple, green and blue light is projected onto the performer and the back wall, their shadow with their arms raised appears on the back wall. In the center foreground of the image there is a microphone on a stand and to the right side, a black speaker on a stand. ] -
The New Normal. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [A gallery wall with six framed images of passport copies. On the right side of the images, a television stands on a white plinth, showing a black and white image. On the left side, wall text lists the exhibition title and artists.] -
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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 an image of a man with tan skin and facial hair, wearing a aviator-style glasses. The caption underneath his image reads, "It was the Americans who did the killing, not the National Guard."] -
Installation View from Moderns in Mind, Artists Space, April 12, 1986 - May 10, 1986. [A long rectangular sculptue lies on the floor in front of paintings hanging on adjacent walls in a gallery setting.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [Two silhouetted figures kissing behind a microphone. They are backlit by a white projection with black capitalized text reading "RENUNCIATION KISSING STATION".] -
[Long metal poles extend downward with several meathooks attached to their bottom ends. Behind the poles is a brick wall painted blue. Capital white letters painted across the wall read, "MEAT."] -
Robert Hall. Babalu, 1986-87. Painted Construction, oil on plywood. 48 inches x 34 inches. [A black and white photograph of a painted construction.] -
Richard Hollis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [An angled view of the exhibition exit, on which the left of the doorway is text, on the right a projected image. Across the frame is a large bookstand displaying documents, books, and papers.] -
[Collaged atop a yellow and orange field is a series of abstract graphic elements and an upside down image of a face. In the bottom right corner an upside down text reads "ABASEMENT 60."] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a white gallery wall with three vitrines containing musical scores built into the wall. On top of the vitrine is a manipulated flute, and a series of black-and-white images. Two black-and-white photographs are hung to the right of the vitrine.] -
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Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [One red photograph is mounted at an angle on a white gallery wall.] -
Sarah Morris, still from Strange Magic, 2014. REDCODE HD digital video, 45 min 8 sec. Courtesy the artist. [Close-up of a bottle of golden Dior perfume decorated with a black bow resting on a white surface.] -
The Owl Answers. Performance documentation, February 29, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Filip Wolak. [Six figures standing around a line of music stands in an interior space with concrete flooring and industrial columns. Some of the figures lean against the columns, their hands at their sides or casually crossed at their chests. Five of them stare at an isolated figure situated in front of the line of music stands, holding a black binder. She turns to gaze back at the others, illuminated by overhead lights as she speaks.] -
Poster from Polly II - A Plan for a Revolution in Docklands (2006). [A city skyline on fire behind black and white waves. Above that are four circular portraits of people and a title decal with the words "POLLY II: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands."] -
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close-up color image of a performer sitting on stage facing a laptop. The room is dark, lit with blue light and patches of rainbow abstract projections. There are white dots on the back walls reflecting from a disco ball. The performers face is lit up, they are wearing glasses and their hands are on the table.] -
Sistema Sandinista de Television. Still from Golpes de la Corazon (Blows of the Heart), 1983. Video (sound, black and white). Spanish with English subtitles. [Older man with microphone stands next to five small boys. The wall behind them reads "en esta esquina" in black letters on one side and "CDS" in white letters on the other. Subtitles burned into the image at the bottom read, "Our prizes are 2000, 1000 and 500!" Video scan lines and outer edges of CRT monitor are visible.] -
[An image of people in a circle wearing white ponchos holding white streamers and a large red balloon is superimposed on top of a city street, rendered in shades of black and grey.] -
Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Two photographs are mounted on a white gallery wall.] -
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Charlotte Posenenske. Configured by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Six geometric, silver metal sculptures installed on low dolleys with wheels sit, scattered, across a wooden gallery floor. The sculptures are modular, hollow, and consist of cube-like and triangular metal components. Long arrows of colorful tape are installed on the gallery floors.] -
[A graph showing a typical stock price increasing in value, digitally manipulated to show it going back in time and continuing to increase, once above a certain threshold.] -
Manuel DeLanda, Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (still), 1980, 16mm-to-digital, Color, Sound, 30 minutes. [A figure wearing a trenchcoat stands in a psychadelically lit bathroom while smoking a cigarette.] -
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Establishing Shot Exhibition Catalogue, Artists Space, 2004. [A grid of slightly distorted portraits; the left side all in black and white and the right side in light blue and white. Arranged along the border between the two colors text reads vertically "ARTISTS SPACE." Additional text reads, "ESTABLISHING SHOT / 03.09 - 05.01.2004 / MAIN SPACE."] -
Abasement #76. Performance documentation, March 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer on stage, standing in front of various types of electronic audio equipment. They are wearing a monochromatic purple outfit and glasses. The wall behind them is decorated with blue, orange, and purple projections. The left side of the room is lit with small blue dots reflecting from a disco ball. A few audience members are visible in the bottom edge of the image.] -
[White text overlays an image of an old wall with child-like drawings. The text reads: “April 29 / FUNTO / Jessica Lynne." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
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Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A sculpture of a man leans against a white column in an otherwise empty gallery space.] -
[White text on a black background spells out "THEHEARTOFYOURMOTHERFORMYDOGS"] -
Carolyn Lazard: Two-way. Installation view (Vital, 2025; Borne, 2025), Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Greg Carideo. [A darkened hallway with dark blue walls and light blue linoleum tiling leads into an open gallery space with dark blue carpeting. On the left sits a bench, which faces a large wall projection on the right. The projection depicts a black patient in a blue hospital gown sitting in a chair. The projection is partially obscured by a wall.] -
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Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A view of a dimly lit room with a video monitor sitting on the ground of the right wall. The monitor screen is black with white text reading, "[The Manhattans continue to sing 'Shining Star']." Towards the corner, an inferometer projects green dots onto adjacent walls.] -
Cover of Common Ruin, Win McCarthy, 2023. [Scanned image of a white page featuring a geometric drawing of a building divided into squares. Some of the squares are colored in charcoal and others are lightly filled in with pencil. Light smudges of black charcoal appear across the page. In the upper-center of the page, text reads: "Win McCarthy / Common Ruin".] -
[A screenshot of the google images search results page for the query "a history of negations."] -
Not yet titled, 2019
Clay, glaze, mixed media
7 x 12 x 17 inches (variable)
$5,000
[A brown object with a processing chip imbedded in its front sits on a white base. On top of the object, a small potato sits with two wires attached.] -
Danny McDonald, Midnight Snack Encounter, 2014. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a sculpture sitting on a white pedestal. A beige couch is placed on its side, with a cowboy twinkie figurine sitting in the corner of the couch. Behind the side of the couch stands a grim reaper figure peering over. Beneath the couch is a small rug, with various items (play cards, popcorn, etc.) strewn across it.] -
Local Transit. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A large pile of string connected at one end to a tin can sits on a wooden gallery floor. On the wall to the right are two framed world maps in black and white.] -
Ken Okiishi, Wish I Were Here, 1997 – 2001. pigmented inkjet prints. Courtesy the artist [Five framed photographs and documents displayed on freestanding, white panels in an exhibition space.] -
[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.] -
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The Friends of Artists Space Dinner, May 8, 2010. Executive Director & Curator, Stefan Kalmár, and friends of Artists Space. [Three figures pose for a photograph in a gallery space crowded with milling people who talk amongst each other. They hold drink glasses in their hands and are illuminated by the camera's flash.] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An angled view of large blue painting hanging on a white wall in an exhibition space. To the right of the painting in the center of the room, a projector positioned on a small stand projects an image onto a screen that is also supported by a similar, small stand. The projected image depicts a side view of a man and woman sitting across a table.] -
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Selections: Aljira & Artists Space Announcement Postcard [A white postcard with purple text announcing fall 1990 exhibitions at Artists Space, including Selections: Aljira & Artists Space.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A purple square on a white wall with various photographic media displayed.] -
[An image of two figures in blue scrubs standing on opposite ends of a sterile table. A medical mannequin on the table is covered in shiny red silk fabric. In the background, there are projections and forms draped in yellow fabric.] -
Catherine Ross, still from Fingering and Footing, 2005. [A split screen of two people, each visible between their nose and their chest. Both are extremely excited, with their hands raised up.] -
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Solo performer on stage behind a table of electronic instruments with a large speaker to their right. The walls and musician are covered with pink and purple patterned projections. A group of audience members are visible in the foreground.] -
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Emily Wardill. Still from Basking in What Feels Like ‘An Ocean of Grace’ I Soon Realise That I’m Not Looking at It, but Rather I Am It, Recognising Myself, 2006. [A figure in dark, loose clothing pulls on a glass door, their mirror image reflected back through the glass. They are lit from behind by a pink glow.] -
Installation view, Wyn Geleynse film installation, Artists Space, May 24, 1986 - June 28, 1986. [On the left one can see a bright image of a man standing profile view and on the right appears a photograph of a naked woman shielding her face. Blackness surrounds these two images.] -
[A person walking down a city street, speaking into a megaphone. Behind her are several cars and a truck, and she is surrounded by loft buildings.] -
Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, Duane Linklater. Installation view, Artists Space, 2019. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An installation view of several works in a gallery space. Twelve long wooden poles are mounted on a white gallery wall in a circular formation, projecting out from the wall and intersecting a line of black columns, forming a teepee shape. A large piece of brown linen stained with various black, white, and rust-colors hangs from the poles. Part of the linen drapes on the ground below the teepee structure. A wooden wardrobe stands against a wall in front of the structure. Several bottles filled with urine stand in a line behind the structure, in front of an abstract sculpture in the corner of the room. The sculpture contains a humanoid head, a TV monitor, and haphazard pieces of wooden and cardboard.] -
Community Listening event, Listening to the LES, P.S. 140, 2018 [A photograph of a classroom environment with several students sitting around the edges of the room and a few drawing directly onto a white tablecloth in the center of the room. An image of the underside of a large bridge is shown on a monitor at the front of the room] -
[Black and white photograph of several wooden boxes and drawers filled with small animal bones and preserved insects. Several animal skulls are scattered around and in between the drawers.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure performs on stage behind a table with audio equipment and holds an audio box to their mouth.] -
Lukas Duwenhögger: Undoolay. Installation view, Artists Space, 2016. Photo credit: Jean Vong. [A framed painting is hung on a white wall adjacent to an elevator with a decorative sconce installed above the painted white doors. The painting depicts a chained elephant being trained by a woman in a black dress. The woman holds a baton against the elephant's raised foreleg.] -
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Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 8, 2022, 7pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures wearing medical scrubs suspend a piece of red fabric between themselves.]
