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keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure, wearing reflective one-way mirror film around their body, hanging off the ledge of an open doorway entrance.] -
Yoshitomo Nara, No War Girl, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a drawing of a cartoon girl, standing on a black hill, against a gold background. The girl holds up her middle finger, and above it in the top-right corner is text that reads "FUCK YOU WAR."] -
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Twerk (New York: Belladonna Books, 2015). [A book cover design featuring large pink text that reads, "TWERK" against an abstract turquoise background. Parts of the letter "K" and "T" extend off the page and have been overlaid with a lacy ribbon pattern.] -
Danh Vo, Chevrolet Suburban, 2010, Digital C-print, 16 x 24 in / 40,6 x 61 cm Photo, credit: Thomas Cato Signed and numbered sales receipt. [A close-up photo of the front grille of a car, depicting the bottom half of the Chevrolet logo and a section of the front metal grille. Several bugs are visible, dead and stuck to the grille.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Installation view, Artists Space, September 16, 2022 - December 3, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [Image of a gallery space with a metal locker, mirrored wooden base, and some tree stumps and plants. A large light and construction nets hang from the ceiling, and on the wall in the back a video is projected onto a screen.] -
Amy Westpfhal, still from The Informational Cookie Project, 2006. [A figure in a white military uniform shirt approaches a group of women on a city street. She holds out a platter of small cookies wrapped in small plastic wrappers to one of the figures, who has taken the cookie, unwrapped it, and reads a small note attached to it.] -
P.S. 140 student workshopping poems, 2019 [Two people stand at the front of a full classroom in front of a projector screen that says, "Poetry workshop / Ms. Rebecca / Today's task: create headline poems." One reads from a notebook, the other listens on.] -
[A woman dressed in a suit sits among clouds in a blue sky, smiling, with six arms. Each hand is holding two phones, an alarm clock, globe, laptop, and folder.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a closeup of a figure, in profile, holding up a small radio to their ear.] -
Gulf Labor action at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 29, 2014. Image courtesy Global Ultra Luxury Faction/Gulf Labor. [A photo looking down from the top of the Guggenheim Museum's atrium, showing people crowded around an unfurling banner.] -
Asia Negron, untitled, digital print, 2019 [A photograph depicting a street in New York. A fire hydrant with some graffiti supports a leaning concrete pole, which has fallen over, lifting up a piece of the sidewalk] -
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.] -
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Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, Frog Man & Baby Frog, 2025. Michigan J. Frog plushies, miniature directors chairs, ARRI 150 Junior light, Manfrotto Nano light stand, speakers, audio excerpts from movies. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Two panels of wood are joined to create a miniature stage set. In the center, sitting in a miniature director's chair are two cartoon frog plushies wearing black top hats. The larger frog plushy cradles the smaller frog in it's arms. Two more director's chairs are positioned facing the plushies, along with a miniature stage light and stand that shines a spotlight on the plushies.] -
Four Scottish Artists. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [An illustration of a row of figures holding bagpipes on either side of a large grey square.] -
[Flyer featuring a drawing of a face in black ink with accents of pink and green on the mouth, cheeks, and eyelids. Handwritten text on the top reads "The worst is over / well it hasn't even / started by at least / I know." Text on the bottom provides the place and time of the event.] -
Abasement #67. Performance documentation, January 15, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of three performers on stage. In the left foreground, a blurred figure in a black polo leans over, their arms stretched out, presumably towards an instrument placed on a table. In the midground, a tall performer dressed in all black with shaggy silver head and sunglasses is caught mid-motion with a pair of macarenas in their left hand. Behind the silver-haired performer, we catch a glimpse of a drummer in a black hat, their face turned down towards the cymbal they are about to strike. Behind all three performers, the back wall is illuminated in a white light. ] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon -
Attention Line. Installation view, Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [The walls on either side of a large glass window have various ephemera hanging from them. On the ground stand four large humanoid costumes, with a TV monitor behind them.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Gary Burnley. [A black and white photograph of a multicolored globe sitting on a wooden floor.] -
Colin de Land at American Fine Arts, February 1996. Courtesy Smithsonian Archives of American Art. [Colin de Land sat at a desk, looking at paper materials in his lap. Various objects, documents, and books sit opened around him.] -
Unstretched, bound, outside mission, 2020, acrylic on linen, bubble wrap, ratchet strap, chicken wire, dimensions variable. [A large, orange and brown stuffed slug sculpture is strapped around a Greco-Roman style columns on the facade of a cast iron building. The slug’s antennae point towards the blue sky. Further down the street are additional buildings, parked cars, and a Detour sign.] -
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Pictures. Opening Reception, Artists Space, September 23, 1977. Maureen McFadden of National Distillers and Chemical Corporation (sponsor), (left), Irving Sandler (middle), Helene Winer (right). Photo: D. James Dee. [A black and white photograph of three figures standing in a gallery space. They each hold a drink in their hand and are smiling.] -
Crystal Z Campbell, Revolver, 2022. 16mm film transferred to Digital Video, Stereo, Sound. 17:27 min. Courtesy the artist [Negative film image that has been mirrored across a diagonal line of symmetry, depicting a blue board with objects arranged on it to create vaguely recognizable patterns.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a figure in profile, seated behind a reed organ covered in a sheet of clear plastic. A clock sits on a music stand behind the organ. The figure reaches their arm under the plastic and holds the arm of the organ.] -
Shirley Jaffe. The Blue Daisy, 1988-89. [A geometric composition of black, blue, yellow, red, and orange flat shapes on a white background.] -
Chang Yuchen: Coral Dictionary Vol. 1: 2019-2022. Performance documentation, April 28, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Lane Lang. [A row of small folded blue books are displayed on a black table. A piece of white coral is also placed in the middle of the table.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure kneels down on stage on all fours and sets up audio equipment layed out on the floor.] -
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 middle of the room, photographs and vitrines hang on the walls, and various television monitors and projected images are placed along the sides of the room.] -
Log Cabin. Installation view, Artists Space, 2005. [Several sculptures, video works, and other artworks installed in a gallery space with wooden flooring. A large sculpture on the image's right side is composed of a series of wooden rifles gathered to form two, pole-like structures, between which a quilt-like blanket is wrapped around a supporting pole. To the left of this sculpture, a second, long structure composed of a series of white tiles runs diagonally across the gallery floor, forming a long line. Several TV monitors and 2D works are installed on the gallery walls behind the two sculptures.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color image of four individuals holding hands and dancing in a circle energetically. The background depicts a dimly lit venue with a glowing discoball and a variety of guests.] -
[A grid of blue hearts on a yellow background.] -
Elephant Cemetery. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [A wide wooden worktable sits in a gallery space with various models, books, and papers displayed on its surface. One of the models located closest to the viewer is yellow and has an amorphous shape. A series of black and white photographs of buildings hang on the wall to the right of the table.] -
Abasement #67. Performance documentation, January 15, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a musician on stage, seated in a chair, holding an instrument that appears to be a guitar across their lap. To their right, a microphone is positioned close to an amp. Their feet control several pedals placed on the floor. Their long blonde-brown hair falls down over their chest and back as they gaze down in deep focus at the instrument in their lap. Behind the musician, a diamond-shaped, geometric pattern, outlined in bright pink is projected on the back wall. ] -
Mystery Men, Darold Biggs, Silver Key in Photography -
YAP (Young Artist Perform), P.S. 140, 2019 [Several students sit on the edge of a wooden stage holding printed sheets of paper. One girl reads from her paper while holding a microphone] -
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[An illustrated black and white poster titled, "Artists Space Presents / Doug & Mike's Adult Entertainment." There are two hand puppets labelled Doug and Mike, with smaller portraits of assorted characters arranged around them. Additional text at the bottom notes the location and admission information.] -
Chris Johansen. [Black and white mixed-media drawings of cartoonish, smiling faces.] -
David Gesualdi. Placeredii, 1987. [Black background with a white outline of an amorphous white figure.] -
Marz Saffore speaking at “Palestine, BLM & Boycott in the Arts.” Artists Space Books & Talks, Friday, November 4, 2016. Courtesy Decolonize This Place and Artists Space, New York. Photo: Andrés Rodriguez [Marz Saffore, dressed in a beige argyle swearer, a polka dot button up, jeans, and a green cap, sits and speaks into a microphone.] -
[A warm-colored living space littered with discarded wrapping paper and boxes. A champagne bottle sits on a side table next to an orange couch.] -
[An upside-down wooden stool is cast in a glowing, neon light. In the background, a rocking chair with decorative pillows appears out of focus.] -
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.] -
Abasement #76. Performance documentation, March 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of 3 performers on stage. The musician on the left is standing over electronic audio equipment while looking down. To their side a musician is sitting down holding a microphone close to their mouth. On the right side of the image a musician is sitting down playing the violin. In the middle of the stage there is a drum kit. The backs of audience members are visible in the bottom of the image. There is an abstract orange projection on the back wall, which also covers one of the musicians.] -
[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.] -
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo. [Photograph of a basement gallery space with various multimedia works on display. In the left back corner is a reading room, and in the center is a large wooden platform, a wooden bench painted blue, and a woven hanging.] -
Praydoliub Ivanov, Pessimism No More (detail), 2002. [A block of cheese sitting on a white plate on a wooden table. There are several Band-Aids covering the holes on the block of cheese.] -
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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Andrea Abi-Karam, Eduardo Kac and Montana Ray. October 15, 2022, Artists Space. [Light blue text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: "Andrea Abi-Karam / Eduardo Kac & Montana Ray / October 15, 5pm." The middle reads: "Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519."] -
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.] -
[A dark illustration featuring a small, white dog at the composition's lower left edge. A black, inky background vaguely resembling a forest surrounds the dog, who pauses mid stride to glance behind itself.] -
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 displayed in a multilevel gallery space. An old tv monitor, a coffee machine, and an artificial seagull are placed near a yellow boombox sitting on a black rug. Beside the boombox is a large image of a group of individuals in a defaced bedroom.] -
Attention Line. Installation view (exceprts from Clairvoyant Journal, 1974, Clairvoyant Journal cassette tape, 1974, If Workshop, c. 1990 ), Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a display case with several letters, and a television sitting on top.] -
Heist Divination (fwiw remix). Performance documentation, October 25th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. -
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.] -
Michael Robinson. Still from Victory Over the Sun, 2007. [An empty pool with weeds growing out of cracks. There are trees and bushes in the background, and a pink glow on the righthand edge, as if from a sunspot.] -
Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon -
The Owl Answers. Performance documentation, February 29, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Filip Wolak. [Two figures behind music stands perform before a seated audience. One of the figures wears a striped shirt and has turned away from the figure beside them, who gazes out towards the audience as they speak.] -
Abasement #65. Performance documentation, September 18, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two figures musicians perform on stage. On the left, a figure is playing the drums. On the right, a guitar player, sits on a chair. Blue and red lights are projected onto the stage.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure dressed in all white, dancing in a corridor bathed in red light.] -
[White text on a bright fuchsia background. The text reads: “Nov 15 / Lauren Cook / Funto Omojola.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
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Yasunao Tone performing Genealogy and Music, Event 201, Merce Cunningham Studio, New York, 1978 [Black-and-white photograph of a reed organ covered in plastic with an ice cube placed on top of the keyboard, a microphone stand, and a music stand with a clock resting on it. In the background is a stage with chairs set up.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three floor-standing, backlit images of a woman wearing a white Adidas soccer jersey decorated with a "bc" logo. The images are identical and are arranged one behind the other. Paragraphs of text are superimposed across two of the photos.] -
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Sherry Markovitz, Carmine, 1985. [A moose head with antlers is designed with a decorative flower pattern with a white background.] -
Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (Ace of Spades, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [In a darkened room, a bright blue LED light, two circular mirrors and scientific mounts sit atop two metal welding tables. ] -
Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Interferometer (Quantum Eraser), 2018 (detail view). Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An inferometer in the foreground, bolted onto a black peg-board table, projects a green dot, through multiple lenses, onto a white wall.] -
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[Four framed drawings on a wall depicting chaotic, colorful scenes of crowds.] -
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.] -
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Basie Allen, Palm-Lined with Potience. Book cover. 2022. [A black and white image of sun shining through various stems and foliage.] -
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LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Along the gallery wall from left to right is an assemblage scultpure of found objects ranging from lightbulbs to racoon tails. To the right is a sculpture of chicken wings dangling from the wall. Further along is an offwhite square nearly flush with the wall. And on the floor sits a chair adorned with cloth and green onion.] -
Cosima von Bonin, Le Chic, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of two replica rockets, created from wood and white and red enamel paint over top. They are placed on a small white platform.] -
Frank Ripploh, still from Taxi zum Klo, 1981. 95min. [A man sits partially undressed on a toilet, holding a red notebook while peering through a hole in the tile wall.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Audio equipment is arranged in stacks across a desk.] -
New Red Order Cover the Earth, detail, 2021 Painted mural with cut vinyl, dibond prints, kiddie pool, sod, inflatable alligator, turtle sandbox, beach towels, towel racks, beach balls, beach chairs, beach umbrella, real estate lawn sign, cooler, and pool noodles. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a multicolored exhibition space consisting of beach paraphernalia, a real estate lawn sign, and a mural wall collaged with images and drawings.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó, The page you are looking for is not found, 2022, coconut fiber, copper wire, desks, chairs, security monitors, videos, zinc sheets, clay rocks; Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak [Image of two desks, each with a chair, TV monitor playing a video, and clay rocks placed on top.] -
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.] -
Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Arcangelo (1975–1979). Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A black monitor sits on a wooden table. The image onscreen shows a hand holding a black and white paper with text. A stack of photographs lay underneath the paper.] -
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Alan Michelson. Permanent Title, 1993. Wax, muslin, charcoal. Overall: 144 x 144 x 9 in. (366 x 366 x 23 cm). Courtesy the artist. [Eleven brown bags of varying sizes are displayed on a wall, pinned so that their mouths hang open slightly. Charcoal rubbings on the bags trace out corporate logos and other words and phrases.] -
Abasement #76. Performance documentation, March 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer on stage playing the cello. They are facing sideways to the audience, wearing sunglasses and a purple jacket. To their side there is a collection of audio equipment, as well as a music stand and a speaker. The audience is sitting down facing the stage. The room is dark, except for a projected image of a disco ball on the back wall.] -
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Abasement #63. Performance documentation, July 17, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of an individual seated at a table with a variety of musical and electronic equipment and gear in front of him. The individual stares with focus at a computer screen, which illuminates his face in the darkened performance space. A variety of guests can been seen seated all around the musician's work table.] -
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Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Miniature houses constructed of documents are displayed in vitrines in the middle of the room. Various photographs utilizing the wall and floor are displayed to the left on a purple section of wall. Tan, illustrated sacks of variable sizes hang on a white wall to the right.] -
Abasement #81. Performance documentation, October 20th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a modified string instrument on stage. ] -
Abasement #79. Performance documentation, August 11th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer sits on stage, playing a double-neck guitar. ] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Installation view, Artists Space, New York, 2022. [Inside a pink-hued room are three tanker desks and three rolling office chairs in a single-file line. Security monitors with color videos sit on each desk alongside small pieces of clay. In the distance, tree trunks wrapped in fabric rest on the floor and construction nets hang from the ceiling. A wooden structure and an aquarium with purple-colored lights are positioned behind the tree trunks.] -
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Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [Along the wall are two glass display cases holding ephemera, in the center of them three images hang on the wall, on the left sits a tv monitor on a shelf.] -
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Beverly Semmes, Still from Cornelia Walking Through the Formal Garden in the Pink Feather Coat and Hedge Hat, 1988. [A photograph of a figure in a long furry coat who walks along a path in a lush garden, their back facing the camera.] -
Shala Miller, Genesis, 2023. [A black-and-white film still of hazy and ghostly tonal modulations. Within the tonal atmosphere, fragments of a person's face and body can be made out in the right half of the image.] -
Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Two photographs are mounted on a white gallery wall.] -
Salad Days. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A rectangular, 3x5 grid hung on a white wall, comprised of close-up photographs of the inside of people's mouths. Just in front of the wall to the left of the photographs, there is a white plinth with a black Converse shoe, a false shin extending out of it, with a metal bone coming out of the top.] -
Abstruction. Installation view, Artists Space, 2003. [Corner of a gallery space with white walls and wooden flooring. Two large rectangular lengths of translucent, white cloth embroidered with amorphous red and blue linework are installed on the corner's left and right walls.] -
Abasement #64. Performance documentation, August 7, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color photo of a performer wearing a quilted suit with a variety of equipment strapped to his body. A bright blue glowing projection emantes from the performer's gear. He is surrounded by seated audience members who observe the performance in a dimly lit venue.] -
Photo: Reily Horan [The artist devynn emory in their grandmother's fleece jacket covered in polar bears, standing in front of a silver sterile table. In the background is collaborator Joseph and cinematographer Jorge discussing where the ancestor forms draped in yellow fabric should be placed.] -
General Idea: Image Virus, by Gregg Bordowitz, published by Afterall Books, 2010. [A book cover design consisting of a pattern of bright red, green, and blue letter tiles spelling out "AIDS" in square formations. White text overlaid on top of the patterning in the cover's upper left corner reads "General Idea Imagevirus Gregg Bordowitz"] -
Heist Divination (fwiw remix). Performance documentation, October 25th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Photograph of a performer standing behind a small desk that holds audio equipment. The performer stands upright with their head down and their hands held together in front of their face. To the performer's right a music stand holds a score. The background is bathed in blue and red light with the silhouettes of audience members visible. In the bottom left corner a recessed structure filled with water is illuminated. ] -
Abasement #63. Performance documentation, July 17, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers sitting on a stage, with a variety of musical gear between them. The backs of heads from audience members observing the performers can be seen at the bottom of the image. A pinkish-red spotlight illuminates the dark performance space and the individuals on the stage.] -
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[Black text on a light green background. The text reads: “April 11 / Blake Butler / Ariana Reines.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
rafa esparza, NH1, 2023, 1 pair of US mens size 11 black and white Nike Cortez, chicken wire, and black Nike socks, freeway rubble. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a pile of freeway rubble arranged on the floor, with a sculpture of a bird made of a deconstructed Nike sneaker perched on top of the pile, with its wings spread.] -
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Michael Brewster, An Acoustic Sculpture, 1977. Negatives of Installation views from An Acoustic Sculpture, A Clicker Drawing. Artists Space, 1977. [A strip of black and white film negatives of a cavernous gallery space.] -
Book spread from FWIW. [Two photographs are shown in a book spread. On the left page, a high-contrast black-and-white photograph hosts heavy light and shadow play. An iconic payphone handset is centered floating in a clear cube, with its top protruding slightly above the cube’s top surface. The telephone’s armored cord hangs down in loose loops inside the cube, its exposed wire slack touching the interior bottom. On the right page, a black-and-white photograph shows two pairs of modified headphones entwined on a deep black surface. In place of speakers, one headphone strap hosts clocks that each have a small stopwatch dial; the other strap hosts a pocket watch and a compass. The clock hands are missing from the clocks; inside their larger clockface circles, each clock hosts a smaller circle with a stopwatch.] -
Still from Spectres. Dir. Sven Augustijnen (2011). [A person in white pants and a blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows is walking through a jungle. Their face is obscured by leaves.] -
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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.] -
Other Minds, San Francisco. Photo: John Fago [Black-and-white photograph of a figure, walking in the middle of the frame between two sets of suspended wires that run from across the room. The figures hands manipulate the wires on each side of them.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A decorated paper bag on a shelf. Blue ferns have been illustrated onto white, red, and pink backgrounds.] -
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.] -
Elephant Cemetery. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [A wide wooden worktable is installed in a gallery space. Various papers, books, models, and a small television set are displayed on the table. A series of black and white photographs are installed on the two gallery walls that surround the table.] -
Joan Jonas. Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy, 1972 [A blurry black-and-white photo of someone wearing a large white headdress holding several unidentifiable objects.] -
Film still from Teaching TV, Artists Space, 1990. [A black and white image of a group of children clustered in front of a store window. On the right, the text "NO FRESH WORDS" overlays the image.] -
Tiffany Sia, The Bastard Tongue (detail view), 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A long sheet of white paper is suspended across multiple floors. Handrails for the second floor are visible in the background.] -
Abasement #64. Performance documentation, August 7, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color photo of a woman captured with her eyes closed, standing before a pair of microphones in a darkened performance space. Blue spotted lights and the reddish glow from a different light source shine onto the performer.] -
Still from Bernadette, 2008. Courtesy of Duncan Campbell and HOTEL, London. [A black and white image of a woman sitting alone in a row of seats, as if on a bus or train. Her face is obscured by the seat in front of her from the nose down, but her full reflection is visible in the window next to her.] -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [A woman with dim red lights on her face in a dark environment stands and talks behind a microphone.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure in a red suit performing in a darkly lit room with LED light sculptures in the background. The figure holds their left hand out in a gesture, and with their right hand holds a mask in front of their face.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Louis Stein, and Haim Steinbach. Contact sheet of photos from exhibition opening, Artists Space, 1979. Photos by Gary Burnley. [Contact sheet of installation images taken during exhibition opening.] -
Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Various people having conversations and looking around at the art during the exhibition opening.] -
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Arts and Family Engagement evening, student panel on high school portfolio preparation, P.S. 140, 2017 [A classroom setting with several students and adults sitting across the room at desks and tables, looking at a teacher speaking to them in a corner of the room] -
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.] -
Jack Smith: Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Several framed artworks hanging on a black gallery wall. A large yellow frame hangs on the left side of the wall while on the right, four smaller anthropomorphic drawings are displayed.] -
ART CLUB2000 Selections from ART CLUB2000 archive, 1992–1999 Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A view of multiple glass cases displaying archival images and documents.] -
Tiffany Sia, Too Wet (detail view), 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A photograph of a foggy gallery window. The words on the windowsill read "THREAD VII (TOO WET)."] -
Sydney Schrader [An illustration takes up the whole frame depicting a yellow house with one rectangular door, one square window, and an orange roof. The house sits in an ambiguous space of slanted red ovals without any perspectival grounding.] -
Hannah Weiner, Book of Revelations, 1989, Pencil in altered book, dimensions variable [An image of a brightly photographed display case with a book which has been cut into in the center.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork: All is Pretty Andy Warhol!, Martin Cohen. [People standing around a gallery space with various globes surrounding them and frame images hanging on the wall to the right.] -
Kerry Tribe. Installation view of Florida, 2003. Video (sound). [A darkened room with several wooden platforms with white pads on top facing a wide screen. The screen shows the image of a pond surrounded by trees.] -
Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, 2025. Marionette. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A marionette wearing a black suit, collared shirt, and white Nike Air Force 1s is positioned laying prone on a windowsill. Red curtains cover half of the window behind the marionette. In the corner, a small stage lights is directed at the marionette. Outside of the window is an alleyway with graffiti.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Detail view of the smaller display case, looking through a narrow glass window. Five mugs are stacked in a corner, and a short pipe curls around the center of the case. A black-and-white image of a shirtless man wearing ripped jeans and boots is printed on the surface.] -
Demonstrations outside Artists Space during the opening of Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, November 16, 1989. [A line of people hold signs with messages including, "ED HELMS impedes THE 1ST AMENDMENT" and "OBSCENE ART?".] -
Group Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 1974. [A color installation photograph of a gallery space with a central opening. A black canvas hangs on the wall on the left, and several yellow sculptures are visible on the right.] -
Rip It Up and Start Again. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A projection of a close-up image of an unidentified figure's mouth and chin is displayed on a wall of a light-filled gallery space. Two small speakers sit above the projection at its top right and left corners. A series of yellow cards sit in a clear container mounted on the wall to the right of the projector. Bold text printed on the front of the cards reads: "I'M SORRY, BUT THIS IS HOW I LEARN."] -
[A few empty seats on an NYC subway - the 6 train, with the originating station titled "Maintaining Good Relations"] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photo of an installation and sound work in a gallery space. Wooden tables with black table tops are stacked upon eachother, creating a structure of tables about 20 feet high. The tables are densely packed and populated by a variety of insturments, automated sound objects and other found items such as hair care products and medicine bottles. Behind the stack of tables, a large piece of cardboard hangs on the wall, filled with drawings and collaged elements.] -
Rhinestone Sharecropping. Berkeley: I. Reed Books, 1981. [A book cover with text reading: "RHINE / STONE / SHARE / CROPPING / a novel / by BILL GUNN author of / Black Picture Show." Below the text is an image of multiple filmstrips arranged to form a grid.] -
Attention Line. Installation view, Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [A gallery with a large glass display case in the center. On the wall behind it hang various ephemera.] -
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[Flyer featuring a white background with black text that provides the event details. In the center of the flyer is a photograph of two figures. The left figure is seated, and playing an oud. On the right, a woman stands with her hand raised to her chin.] -
Hito Steyerl, Liquidity, Inc., 2014, HD video with sound, 30 mins. Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York. Installation view from Hito Steyerl, Artists Space, 2015. [A side view of a large video monitor screen, sitting on the ground, with a large ramp extending from the base. Two viewers sit on large pillows at the curve of the ramp. The room is tinted blue. On the screen, there is a man in a sitting in an office with a note pad and a pen at the table in front of him.] -
Heather Rowe, A Careful Arrangement, 2008, Archival pigment inkjet and silkscreen on Somerset velvet paper, Image size: 12-1/2 x 13 inches (31.8 x 33 cm) Paper size: 21-3/4 x 17 inches (55.2 x 43.2 cm), Edition of 25 + 8 AP. [The photograph shows an ornate room decorated symmetrically with couches on the left and right of the image and a fireplace at the back flanked by two windows. Overlayed on top of the image is a series of black squares and rectangles that overlap each other.] -
Renée Green. Still from Partially Buried, 1996. Video, color, sound; 20 minutes. Courtesy the artist, Free Agent Media, and Video Data Bank. [A dilapidated wood shed is shown partially covered by large mounds of earth. Fingers reach out from the lower-right corner to caress the image.] -
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.] -
Abstruction. Installation view, Artists Space, 2003. [Several artworks installed in a large gallery space with white walls and wooden flooring. A television monitor rests on a low acrylic box on the floor to the room's right side. A warped purple and pink image resembling a kaleidoscopic star shape is displayed on its screen. There are white columns to the left of the monitor. Hanging on a gallery wall on the image's far left side is a large piece of translucent, white cloth embroidered with amorphous red and blue linework. The far gallery wall behind the twinned columns has been painted with slanted, striped areas of peach, yellow, and ochre color.] -
[A black and white line drawing of a person in an art gallery looking at a portrait on the wall. There is another piece on the wall of a person holding a rectangular box and blowing a bubble.] -
Alvin Baltrop, The Piers (exterior view of day's end), 1975-8. Courtesy The Alvin Baltrop Trust and Third Streaming, New York. [People sitting on small wooden planks at the end of a pier. A large hole is visible in the side of the pier.] -
Leigh Ledare, Double Bind (Diptych #6/25), 2010. Courtesy the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. [Two framed artworks side-by-side. One has a white background and features a collage of photographs, showing two people with their faces obscured by other images of nature and currency. The other artwork features a black background and two smaller photos arranged one on top of the other. The top image depicts a woman looking back at the camera, and the lower image depicts a forest.] -
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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.] -
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Abasement #73. Performance documentation, November 4th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two musicians sit on stage. The musician on the left is leaning over a table and using electronic instruments. The musician on the right is looking down and playing the guitar. The stage is lit with red and white lights and projected with a patchworks of patterns.] -
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. ] -
Not yet titled, 2019
Clay, glaze, metal antenna
3 1/2 x 13 x 12 inches (variable)
$2,500
[A pink object with a white, cracked surface sits on a white base. A flat green surface is attached to the left side, and a metal antenna extends out on a diagonal.] -
Postcard from Robert Morgan. Artists Space, 1977 -
Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two white walls are suspended on six vertical poles and are arranged so that they form a right corner. A large grid-like composition composed of many small squares is mounted on the left wall. On the right wall there are many photographs and printed video stills either mounted in grid patterns or one above the other.] -
New Red Order, Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, Artists Space, January 23, 2020. Photo © Paula Court. [A figure stands in front of a music stand speaking into a microphone. They are backlit by an image of a rippling upside down American flag.] -
Brad Kronz, Egna Spartan, 2025. Plywood, wood filler, stain. Photo: Carter Seddon [Lit from above, a square wooden panel hangs in the center of the wall. ] -
New Art Auction and Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. [A black and white installation view of a gallery space with a set of six large window panes. Various pieces of artwork hang from the walls.] -
Still from livestream Foam Party Cancelled. [An internet browser displaying artistsspace.org/stream with two videos shown side-by-side, streaming from Ustream. On the left, a camera near the floor shows an empty room and a wall with the words "FOAM PARTY CANCELLED" drawn on. On the right, a close-up image of a bird sculpture and two candles, with a person's face and painting in the background.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two paper bags with handles sit on a white shelf. The left bag is red and decorated with two illustrated portraits, one of which is a Native American man. The bag to the right has a larger portrait of a Native American man next to illustrative fish on a colorful background.] -
Perspective: The State of Existing in Space Before the Eye. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [On a black background, a charcoal drawing of a foot overlaps a scrap of an architectural diagram.] -
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.] -
Jana Euler: Unform. Installation view, Artists Space, February 21, 2020 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A partial view of a large, orange circular slug sculpture is in front of a painting hanging in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr., Double Appear (After Vuillard), 2013. Oil on board, artist frame, solvent transfer, plywood. 23.5 x 18.5 inches. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A gold framed painting of a seated figure with a grey beard in a tawny toned space.]
