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Hito Steyerl, Red Alert, 2007. Installation on 3 computer monitors. Courtesy of the artist. [Three red-orange panels in white frames hang on a white wall in an open space.] -
Minako Iwamur, Family, 1978. [A painting of five figures seated for a portrait. Their faces are blurred out, and the entire image has been similarly rendered in soft, blurred strokes] -
[Close up image of a series of black shelves mounted to a white wall. Various wooden blocks painted with scenes of crowds, witches, and other characters are placed on the shelves, alongside smaller blocks decorated with white letters that spell out words including "stooge," "atheist," and "traitor." At the center of the shelves sits a black figurine of a goat.] -
Nuestro Reflejo exhibition at Morris Jumel Mansion, Washington Heights, 2025 -
Laurie Hawkinson, CineTrain, 1986. [A black and white photograph of a linear model consisting of many elements.] -
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Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 9, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [A figure in front of a microphone looks down upon a computer.] -
Jon Rubin. *Alice Underwater. Installation view from Dark Rooms, Artists Space, 1985. [A figure sits in front of a two screens next to each other with impressionistic forest imagery. The light from the projection spills out onto the walls and ceiling while the figure and the floor is shrouded in darkness.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A figure in a blue morph suit kneels down on one knee, placing their hands on top of a table made of wood and fresnel lenses while audience members watch in the background.] -
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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Anna Gurton-Wachter and Rachel Levitsky. Saturday, November 6, 2021, Artists Space. Artist: Lonely Christopher & Venn Daniel [A horizontal white background with red lines and circular shapes. There is a cloud-like vertical shape on the left side of the image that houses the title, "Segue" in pink text. The names, "Rachel Levitsky & Anna Gurton-Wachter" appear in the center of the image in black text.] -
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In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [Several rectangular sheets of cream colored paper hang side-by-side on a gallery wall. The papers are arranged in clusters of three or more and appear blank, with faint creases visible on their surfaces.] -
Min Joong Art. Installation view, Artists Space, 1988. [Several people seated on a couch watch a monitor set on a pedestal in front of them. A large speaker is placed to the right of the screen, and on the wall alongside this are two rows of black and white photographs.] -
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Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Overview of a large black glossy structure built in a gallery. The "bc" logo is visible, printed in white on one of the structure's walls. A TV depicting an abstract, colorful image and the word "EVERYWHERE" is hung on an upright rolling stand, visible through an opening in the structure.] -
Sam Pulitzer: A Colony for “Them”. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A freestanding white wall displaying a metal plaque engraved with paragraphs of text juts in front of another angled, white wall in an exhibition space. A large paragraph of wall vinyl text is displayed on the second, angled wall.] -
Shala Miller, Genesis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color documentation image of Shala Miller's Genesis, 2023. Three monochrome projection panels float equidistantly in a dark room, with vinyls on blacks walls.] -
View of Vigilance: An Exhibition of Artists Books Exploring Strategies for Social Concern , Curated by Lucy R. Lippard and Mike Glier Franklin Furnace, 1979 Courtesy Mike Glier [A woman sits, left of center, at a table filled with books. On the wall behind her, a banner with red text that reads, "...Pessimism of the intellect, Optimism of the will... Gramsic," is displayed.] -
Cover for Everything is common catalogue by Jack Hogan [A person holding caution tape over a patch of wet cement with the words Everything is common written in it.] -
Ken Aptekar, Oversensitive, 1987-1990. Oil on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 30 x 30 inches. [A slightly chipped painting of a face with downcast eyes and a medieval-style crown. The word "Oversensitive" is overlaid across the top part of the face.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr., Future Glimpsed, 2022. Oil on linen-mounted board, brass, solvent transfers, raw linen panel, linoleum frame, plywood. 20.75 x 16.75 inches. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a framed painting of two sets of hands. On top of the frame rests a color control strip.] -
Anja Kirschner and David Panos, still from Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, 2011. [A man and a woman in a split screen view with a black space between them. The man's face is turned to the side; the woman is facing towards him, her eyes cast downwards, with two fingers pointing.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó, Sala Portal Omi, 2022, dried vegetable leather, 3D animation, video landscapes, ambient sound, LED lighting, linoleum floor; Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak [A large gallery room's walls are painted black, with a black vinyl floor, and white ceiling. Along the walls are yellow and orange LED lighting sculptures that have dried vegetable leather stitched on top of the lights. In the corners of the room three TVs playing animations of rushing water are placed on top of each other.] -
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Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, Duane Linklater. Installation view, Artists Space, 2019. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Projectors placed across a wood floor project variegated hues of white light onto a wall.] -
Union Gaucha Productions. Installation view, Artists Space, 2015. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An angled view of scattered video projection stills at various heights and sizes on a wooden wall. The wooden wall is displayed in a room with white walls and faux-grass flooring.] -
Salad Days 2. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [A slide projector sits in a dimly lit corner of a gallery space. The device projects an image of rocks and other debris onto a poster hung on the wall, which lists various statistics related to The Letchworth Village, a residential commuinty in Rockland County, New York. A second poster hangs on a wall to the left of the slide projector. A stack of papers rests on a small support below the poster.] -
Shirley Jaffe. White Begonia, 1986. Oil on canvas, 86x70 inches. [A geometric composition of red, purple, black, yellow, blue, and green flat shapes on a white background.] -
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 of white picket fence opening with dark painted background behind it.] -
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Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A book shelf displays paper documents containing black and white images. Above, smaller documents, and a similar paper displayed in a white frame.] -
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Artists Performance Series. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. [A black and white photograph of a gallery space. A chouch with two figures is visible in the lower left corner. On the walls, several framed works are hung, each with a grid of smaller black and white images.] -
Pictures. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. [A dimly lit corner of a gallery. A large, gray structure with a slight trapezoidal shape hangs on the corner's left wall. A series of small figurines of men riding on horses emerge in a line along the top edge of the gray form. Hanging on the corner's right wall is a frieze-style figurine of a man in a white shirt and tie that emerges from the wall. He tilts his head back as his arms bend, one extending forward.] -
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 [Four dynamic images of a group of individuals pinned by large push pins on a blue gallery wall.] -
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.] -
Portrait of Bill Gunn. [A person sits on a wooden chair and looks off into the distance. His right elbow rests on a table partially visible in the photograph.] -
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Sean Snyder, still from Casio, Seiko, Sheraton, Toyota, Mars, 2004-5. Courtesy Lisson Gallery, London. [A person in army camouflage and a military gun grabs a handful of packaged cookies from a stand selling assorted candies, snacks, sodas, and other food.] -
Eniya Alonzia, The Sky, digital print, 2019 [A skewed black-and-white image looking up at the façade of a building and the sky. An LED sign spelling "DINER" hangs from the left side of the building] -
Jack Smith: Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Several artworks and vitrines displayed in a gallery space. On the left, a slide projector projects an image of a figure wearing a leopard-print body suit onto a white wall. A glass vitrine displaying several paper documents stands in the middle of the room next to a freestanding wall. Twelve drawings arranged in a grid formation and one additional drawing installed to the right of the grid are dispalyed on the freestanding wall.] -
Sam Pulitzer: A Colony for “Them”. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A shallow white cylinder sitting on a dark wooden floor. A small green light glows from inside the cylinder.] -
Jane Bowles with Cherifa in Tangier, 1967. Photo: Terrence Spencer/Time & Life Pictures/Getty. [Black and white photograph of two women, one in a white dress and the other in a black niqab and sunglasses, walking arm in arm in a narrow street.] -
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.] -
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.] -
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.] -
Hito Steyerl. Still from Liquidity, Inc., 2014. HD video with sound, 30 minutes. [A video projection playing in a blue lit room with a large curved surface for viewing.] -
Jerry Beck, American Mummy, 1985. [Sculpted cross with strings strapped around it, holding unidentified items together inside of it. Held on a white background with dimensions written in pencil on the right side.] -
Enough Tiranny. Installation view, Serpentine Gallery, 1972. [A black and white photograph showing a room filled with various standing lights and assorted objects sitting on the floor. Two people are standing, their outlines casting shadows on a white wall with the word "TIRANNY" handwritten in large, block letters.] -
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.] -
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. ] -
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The Library Vaccine. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [A series of books sit at eye level on a wall that displays a black and white photographic collage graphic behind them.] -
The Owl Answers. Performance documentation, February 29, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Filip Wolak. [Close up shot of four music stands arranged side by side. The torsos and hands of three figures are pictured beside the stands. They leaf through the pages of scripts held in black binders, supported by the music stands.] -
Abasement #74. Performance documentation, December 2nd, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer sitting down playing the guitar is bathed in colorful light. They are wearing a geometric print shirt and a blue, green, and white projected pattern covers their face and the wall behind. There are two mic stands to their right.] -
ART CLUB2000 Gli Avvoltoi (The Vultures), 1995 Vinyl paint and newsprint flyer Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [Behind two large columns is a wall mural displaying multiple cartoon vultures resting on black scaffolding. Beside the mural sits a pile of newsprint flyers.] -
Lonnie Holley with his painting The Hand of My Grandfather (1984), 1987. Photo: William Arnett. © Lonnie Holley / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the artist and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York -
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[A person with a long braid is sitting on one of many brightly colored bundles of objects. The bundles are sitting on the dirt ground.] -
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.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure stands behind a microphone, their hands placed together in front of them and looking off.] -
[White text on a turquoise and grey ombré background. The text reads: “Feb 15 / Lynne Tillman / Audrey Wollen.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Art Day, Blue Sky Gallery, P.S. 140, 2018 [Five rectangular black-and-white drawings of cityscapes appear exhibited on a wall in the corner of a room, with a didactic panel under a lightswitch to their right, titled "A View from the Bridge"] -
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.] -
[Four book covers, arranged into a grid. Titles, from left to right, beginning with the top, read, "Pride and Prejudice," "Negotiating for Dummies," "Revenge," and "Token Gestures."] -
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Manuel De Landa, still from The Itch Scratch Itch Cycle, 1976, 16mm, color, sound, 8 minutes. [A color image of a man and a woman standing facing each other. The man in the red shirt, with his back facing the viewers, points to himself; the woman in the blue top puts her hands on her hips and stares back at the man. A reflection of the man's irate facial expression is cast on a glass surface, overlapping onto the woman's body.] -
Abasement #64. Performance documentation, August 7, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color photo of three musicians captured mid-performance on stage in a dark venue space. The performer in the middle plays the trumpet and is flanked at either side by two men playing clarinets. The musicians are illuminated by green and blue abstract projections that are cast on the wall behind them.] -
LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Along the gallery wall is an assemblage of objects hanging off the wall and to the floor connected by metal thread. Further down the wall is a painting, a plinth of colorful sculptures, a framed artwork, and a television playing a video in the corner. In the back is a glimpse of an alcove with three artworks appearing as colorful stripes, grey and yellow on the wall, and black on the floor. ] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of an empty gallery room, with black walls. Hanging around the center of the space are three hanging screens playing the same synchronized video. Along the back wall a cello lays against a wooden chair, next to a harp and stool. On the side wall a spotlight shines on a microphone stand.] -
Marina Cappelletto. Still Life with Three Eggs, 1987. [House-like form with three egg-shaped objects surrounding it with some shadowing visible.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [A gallery space with a chalk drawing on the top section of a wall and chairs underneath. Framed images on the adjacent wall are near a doorway into another space.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Kimberly Alidio and Joyelle McSweeney. Saturday, November 7, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Keith Higginbotham [A group of basketball players sit on a bench, a cutout photograph of a pink flower collaged over each of their heads. On top of the lower half of the image, black text reads "Kimberly Alidio / Joyelle McSweeney" and the lower left corner pink text reads "Segue."] -
Axine M: Sold Licker Glass, 2024, Artists Space. Courtesy of ISSUE Project Room. Photography by Cameron Kelly McLeod. [Wide view of 5 musicians on stage performing under blue tinted lights with the audience on the left. From left to right the instruments played are the cello, clarinet, horn, flute, guitar, and vocals.] -
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view (Samson Kambalu, Nyau Cinema, 2014 - ongoing; Finnegan Shannon, Do you want us here or not, 2018; Kevin Jerome Everson, Workers Leaving the Job Site, 2013; Clare Hu, Perimeter, 2022), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo. [Photograph of a corner of a basement gallery. A wooden bench, painted blue on the surface, sits between two columns. The back of the bench reads "THIS EXHIBITION HAS ASKED / ME TO STAND FOR TOO LONG." A woven piece hangs from the ceiling to the right. Behind the bench are projectors facing the wall at varying heights.] -
Invitation for Leben mit Pop - Eine Demonstration für den kapitalistischen Realismus (Living with Pop. A Demonstration for Capitalist Realism) October 1963 Estate Konrad Lueg [Two square images of paper. Top reads, "Leben mit Pop." Bottom contains a green image of a deflated baloon that reads, "Pop."] -
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.] -
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Still from Eli Noyes and Claudia Weill's IDCA 1970, 1970. [A film still of a crowd of people sitting in rows of seats. Some wear sunglasses. Most do not speak to one another but gaze forward or glance around themselves.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A female mannequin stands upright in a gallery space. It wears a shiny black wig with bangs, a black polo shirt, and a red skirt with gold lacing that drapes onto its legs. A red, fabric cut-out hangs from the bottom edge of the skirt, draping against the mannequin's left leg.] -
Poster for Top Hat, 1935. [A bright yellow poster for Top Hat (1935) features a man in a black tuxedo with coattails and a woman in a long white dress with a full skirt, captured in exuberant dance atop a black top hat. Orange rays radiate from around the woman, while around them are smaller illustrated vignettes of the dancing couple in various poses amidst music notes. Text at the top of the poster reads "They're dancing cheek-to-cheek again!" and bold type listing the featured actors' names, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The movie title is superimposed on the top hat in red type. Further film credits include Irving Berlin (music and lyrics), and supporting cast (Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erick Rhodes, and Eric Blore), with direction by Mark Sandrich.] -
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Konrad Lueg Babies , 1967 80 copies + 40 artists proofs, signed and numbered screen print on cardboard, 59 x 83 cm Courtesy of Edition Block, Berlin [Six rows of six small, faded images of a child in various poses, positioned at left center of frame.] -
Adrienne Kennedy, The Owl Answers. Performance documentation, Artists Space, February 29, 2020. Photo ©️ Filip Wolak. [A head-on view of six figures, each standing before a music stand in front of a seated audience. They are arranged side by side in a horizontal line, illuminated by overhead lights.] -
Joan Jonas, Night Light, 2013, Steel and LEDs, 37 x 15 x 10 inches (94 x 38 x 25 cm), Edition of 10 + 1 AP, Signed certificate. [The photo shows steel rods that make a curved pyramid shape laying on its side with an LED light-strip running along one of the rods. The sculpture lies on a wooden floor against a white wall.] -
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.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of an installation work in a gallery. On a wooden partition wall in the back of the space, two large carboard drawings hang. To the left, in front of the wooden parition, a paper-mache sculpture is placed on the floor. In the center of the image, ceramic works and kinetic sculptures made of branches surround a structural column. Behind the column, there are more paper-mache sculptures placed on the floor and hanging off the wall. In the right foreground, two windows with images painted on the glass hang from the ceiling.] -
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".] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view, Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation photograph of a gallery space with a painted drum set, a hanging gong. A television monitor is placed on the floor to the right with several LP covers hanging above.] -
The Issues of Our Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Adam Reich. [A metal cutout of a hand, holding up its middle finger with others curled back, is installed on a white wall. The hand holds a stack of neon cards. Black text on the front of the top card reads, "High five, girls earned the point, they have a good feel."] -
We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [Paintins appear on white gallery walls with two sculptures on pedestals on the gallery floor.] -
Andrea Zittel, Perfected Pillow, 1995, Pair of fringed velvet pillows, 80 x 40 inches (203 x 102 cm); 18 x 36 in (46 x 91 cm), Edition of 39. [The image shows a rectangular bed-like cushion with a black pillow that lays diagonally across the image patterned with two green and two black triangles of fabric.] -
Darren Wardle, Jailbreak, 2002. [A symmetrical image of windowless houses rendered in inverted colors with tones of purple, yellow, and pink.] -
Salad Days 3. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Jeremy Ross. [Three black television monitors installed on white plinths in a gallery space in a semi-circluar formation. Faces of three disparate figures are displayed on each screen. The face displayed in the center monitor's screen is a deep blue color.] -
Jack Smith, still from Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment), 1970-73. 16mm transferred to video, (sound, color), 27 minutes. [A figure wearing all black clothing, a black hood, heavy eyeshadow, and a fake mustache looks at the floor.] -
Karl Holmqvist, oxoxbox, 2012, Bespoke archival box wrapped in cotton book cloth with silkscreen, 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches, Signed and numbered certificate [An all-over black and white pattern of "oxox"] -
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.] -
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.] -
Abasement #65. Performance documentation, September 18, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A close-up color image of a musician sitting on a chair playing an electric guitar in an unusual way. The guitar is laying on his legs and he is using a metal stick to play the chords. Blue and purple projections cast onto him.] -
Carlos Motta. We Who Feel Differently, 2012. New Museum, New York. Courtesy Mor Charpentier Galerie, Paris [Installation photograph. The floor is covered with multicolored carpet strips, some of which are raised above the floor to create seating or shelving for CRT television monitors. On the wall, several black-and-white artworks are hung, depicting human figures, and text is printed on the wall "WE WHO FEEL DIFFERENTLY." Several visitors stand and sit around the room.] -
ART CLUB2000 Untitled (Punishing Enforcers of an Oppressive Regime), detail, 1998 Eight printed cardboard standees, satin sashes, and LED lights Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A view of four red-eyed police officer cardboard cutouts with sashes that read "Punishing Enforcers of an Oppressive Regime." A blue police light sits in the corner of the red lit room.] -
Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Two photographs are mounted on a white gallery wall.] -
Richard Prince, Oedipus Schmedipus, 1994, Screenprint on white T-shirt Stretched over canvas in white lacquer frame, 25 1/4 x 19 1/2 in (64.1 x 49.5 cm), Edition of 26, Signed & numbered. [The image shows a white t-shirt in a frame with text printed on top in a wavy text that says, "A mother is having a very tense relationship / with her fourteen year old son. Screaming and / fighting are constantly going on in the house. / She finally brings him to a psychoanalyst. After / two sessions, the doctor calls the mother into / the office. / "Your son," he tells her, "has an Oedipus / complex." / "Oedipus, Schmedipus," the woman answers. / "as long as he loves his mother."] -
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Critical Art Ensemble, Disturbances (London: Four Corners Books, 2012). [The front and back cover of a book; on the front, the title in white and red - on the back, two people in hazmat suits walking through a foggy field.] -
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SCRAAATCH, Untitled July 4th Performance, 2022. Photo: Mo Costello. [A microphone and lights are set up in a field, with trees along the horizon line.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Jesse Darling and Fiona Alison Duncan. February 19, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a blue background. The top left corner reads: Jesse Darling / Fiona Alison Duncan. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, February 19, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."] -
Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A photograph of two walls of a gallery space. On one, photographs hang in an uneven row. On the other, two sculptures protrude from the wall.] -
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, still from Mouth to Mouth, 1975. Video, black and white; 8 minutes. Courtesy University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. [A mouth silently forms the shape of the eight Korean vowel graphemes while video noise or ‘snow’ threatens to drown it out.] -
Sam Pulitzer: A Colony for “Them”. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A large, black and white illustration of a hand displayed on a freestanding gallery wall. The hand extends upwards, palm facing the viewer, with tentacle like creatures escaping a slit on its wrist. The illustration extends across the full height of the wall.] -
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UniBodies. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [Detail view of an abstract grey sculpture on a white pedestal. The surface of the sculpture is shiny and made of synthetic materials.] -
Abasement #74. Performance documentation, December 2nd, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A close view of a performer playing the violin. Their hand using the bow is in focus and the rest of the image is slightly blurred. They are playing into a microphone on a stand. To their left a performer plays the upright bass. Both musicians are covered with red light and images of projected green circles.] -
Combined Faulty Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [Five rows of bleachers built from wood, with dozens and dozens of assorted sculptures of gray, painted pigs. The pigs are reflected in a mirror opposite them, which is framed by columns. On a wall on the left side is an image of hanging scales. The right wall is painted yellow.] -
Hito Steyerl, excerpt from, Liquidity, Inc., 2014 HD video with sound, 30 mins Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York [A moving image of a computer generated ocean horizon line that pixelates into a recorded video of a real ocean horizon.] -
Reinventado, Word Up Community Bookshop and MS 324 students, 2019 [An exhibition view of various artworks. Several stylized portraits hang on the right; in the middle, a large didactic titled "REINVENTADO." On the left, several small photos of students in a classroom hang underneath a red-white-and blue airplane suspended from the ceiling] -
Hilary Lloyd, Shirt, 2011. [A close-up shot of black fabric patterned with white dots, stripes, and zigzags.] -
Traditions: Five Painters. Installation View, Artists Space, 1978. [Various paintings hang in a row on a wall. The paintings are composed of bold lines and blocks of color.] -
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)."] -
Charlotte Posenenske, Series D Vierkantrohre (Square Tubes), 1967. Galvanized sheet steel, dimensions variable. Photo: Burkhard Brunn. [Black and white photograph of three, geometric metal structures sitting on a wide, outdoor concrete plaza. One of the metal structures is situated in the center of the photograph, while the additional two sit behind it, flanking it on either side. The structures are composed of hollow cube-like and triangular components.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Detail view of a table filled with several stacks of a book titled *EINE PINOT GRIGIO BITTE*. The book covers appear in various shades of orange, pink, blue, yellow, and green, and are stamped with the same ornate Latin emblem. Some are comb bound and others are side stitched.] -
Blaster Al Ackerman, Untitled, n.d., painted album cover, 12 x 12 inches. Courtesy of Stewart Mostofsky. [A painted image of a white push-button telephone sitting atop a brown surface with a yellow wall behind it. At the top right is a 10 cent postage stamp depicting a face with missing teeth and a text that says "The GIGGLER."] -
"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.] -
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. On the left wall there is a line of nine polaroid photographs, evenly spaced and hung about five feet from the light wooden floor. The right wall features a frame from a video being played from a projector. The black and white film frame shows the interior of an industrial space, the exposed ceiling rafters and brick wall. ] -
Carol Sun, Herstory, 1991. Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 76 inches. [A postcard showing an image of sheets of paper, books, chains, a teapot, and other assorted objects on a checkerboard.] -
Installation view, Robert Morgan. Artists Space, 1977. [A black-and-white photograph of a gallery space with a video projected on the wall. There appear to be multiple bodies in the video.] -
UniBodies. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [In the foreground, a clear and grey sculpture rests on top of a white pedestal. In the background, four additional sculptures in arranged from light to dark tones, hang in a row.] -
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] -
Association Apsolutno, still from a.trophy, 2002. [A slightly grainy, black and white image of a deer standing on snowy ground in front of woods. There are two detached antlers on the ground in front of the deer.] -
Adrienne Kennedy, Funnyhouse of a Negro, 1964 (East End Theater, New York, directed by Michael Kahn, produced by Barr, WIlder, and Albee). Pictured: Ellen Holly and Cynthia Belgrave. Photo: Frederick Eberstadt. [Two people in white face paint and fanciful dresses crowd around a crudely constructed wooden desk that sits off-kilter. One sits at the desk and applies makeup while the other stands to their left, gazing beyond the image.] -
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Shala Miller, Genesis, 2023. [A black-and-white film still depicting a nude figure, her body is turned two-thirds of the way. Several smoky duplicates of the figure's body and face are superimposed over the original image. A cloudy and blooming, nondescript atmosphere serves as the background.] -
Art Day at P.S. 140, What is the Sound of Water? Community reception, June 17, 2022 -
Traci Tullius, Some People Never Learn, 2001. [A figure with long brown hair wearing a gray sweater over a light pink and white button-down shirt clenches their eyes shut as a red ball hits their face.] -
Front Yard Exhibition Galerie Parnass, Villa Jährling, Moltkestraße 67 February 1964 Photo: Rolf Jährling, Zentralarchiv des internationalen Kunsthandels ZADIK [A black and white image of four paintings of various sizes displayed against a fence with a thin layer of snow, marked with footprints, beneath them.] -
Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A barrel, converted into a grill, sits horizontally on a wheeled cart. It is opened, with a silver metallic interior, in the center of the room. On the left, three long planks of glass lean onto the wall. To the right, photographs displayed in a pane of glass sit at eye-level on the wall.] -
Tom of Finland Untitled , 1947 Gouache on paper Tom of Finland Foundation, Permanent Collection [An illustration including two men, wearing blazers and dress hats, gazing downwards next to another man. This man, dressed in dungarees and a baseball cap, is holding his penis.] -
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. On the left wall there is a line of nine polaroid photographs, evenly spaced and hung about five feet from the light wooden floor. The right wall features a frame from a video being played from a projector. The black and white film frame shows the interior of an industrial space, the exposed ceiling rafters and brick wall. ] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cutouts and red and blue squigly lines overlay a yellow background. Text in the upper left corner an upside down text reads "ABASEMENT 63" and lists the performers. Text on the lower lefthand corners list the time and place of the event.] -
[Black text overlays a pixelated gradient pattern in various hues of pink and yellow. The text reads: “April 20 / Imani Elizabeth Jackson / Emily Simon.” 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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[A grid of blue hearts on a yellow background.] -
Ernest Silva, Artist's Suitcase, 1975. Installation view, Deborah S. Freedman, Judy Rifka, Ernest Silva, Artists Space, 1975. [A color photograph of an abstract painting, composed of curving blue, teal, purple and pink forms.] -
Not yet titled, 2019
Clay, glaze, mixed media
12 x 13 x 5 inches (variable)
$5,000
[A brown and tan object stands on a white base. On the flat surface of the object, an onion and a lemon sit connected by a rainbow wire. In the base of the object, a processing chip is embedded.] -
Nick Relph, A List of Incorrect Things, 2010, Offset print 6 2/3 x 11 inches, Signed and numbered by Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt, Text by Nick Relph. [Two pages of red sans-serif text on a white background, titled "Notes:"] -
Photo courtesy the artist [Color photograph of a mound of brown rocks and dirt. In the middle of the frame, jutting out of the mound is a broken piece of clear glass with a gold metallic finish on the outside.] -
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.] -
Students working with light and found objects, 2022 -
Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A woman wearing headphones stands in front of a horizontal monitor displaying an image of two illustrated eyes and a nose. Behind the monitor, several framed photographs lean against a wall. A long, red carpet runs across the floor underneath the photographs.] -
[A man in a sleeveless Metallica shirt stands in front of a makeshift music studio, looking at the camera.] -
UniBodies. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [Detail view of a sculpture with a shiny grey finish. The shape of the sculpture forms a skeletal structure around amorphous square voids.] -
Ian White, Here Is Information. Mobilise (Montréal: LUX, 2016). Image courtesy of Tenderbooks. [A blue book cover with white text that reads "Here is Information. / Mobilise. / Ian White."] -
Sixth Anniversary Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Thomas Laningan-Schmidt. [Three pedestals, covered with fabric scarves and various objects, sit atop a dark floor covering. Framed images hang on the walls. Along the back wall, large windows are adorned with candlesticks.] -
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SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Two figures perform in a basement. On the left a figure with a video camera and shoulder rig takes footage of another figure on the right, dressed in a blue morph suit, and pushing a semicircular rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses. Along the back wall blue and purple tinted live CCTV video footage is projected.] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 18, 2022, 7:30pm. Artists Space, New York. [Various figures stand around a table with a mannequin on it. The mannequin is obscured by foliage and flowers.] -
Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view (toutouni, 2023; bwa, 2023; Ruin, 2023), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A color image of a gallery space. From left to right: a shovel with an iron claw at the base, a tree log on a pedestal and another tree log on pedestal, with a griffon vulture perched on the branch.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure unpacks various audio and projection equipment onto a table. Blue, purple and pink washes of light are projected onto them.] -
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.] -
P.S. 140 students recording sounds at Tompkins Square Park, 2019 [A cropped image of a group of students smiling for the camera in Tompkins Square Park. One holds a recording device, which has been overlaid with an opaque orange image of a lampshade. Green digital circles emanate out from it, as if to simulate a doppler-effected sound.] -
Jana Euler: Unform. Installation view, Artists Space, February 21, 2020 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Daniel Pérez [In the left foreground of the image is a painting of a shark standing upright in water and in the right background of the image is a large, orange stuffed slug sculpture strapped to a cast-iron column in a white gallery space.] -
Abasement #62. Performance documentation, December 5, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Black-and-white image of three figures standing and performing on stage. Each figure holds a microphone to their face, their eyes closed in concentration. The figure in the middle is wearing a guitar while the other two on the left and right stand behind tables full of audio equipment.] -
[An image of a woman riding a bull through a green bank note. One hand holds on to the reins of the bull, the other scatters bills. She wears a yellow dress that is opening at the top.] -
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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.] -
Louisa Chase. Installation view, Louisa Chase, Ted Stamm, Meryl Vladimer, Artists Space, 1975. [A black and white installation photograph of a sculpture. The piece features various triangular ramps, wooden square blocks, and curved wooden pieces with wheels, all placed on a wooden floor.] -
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Production still from Black Picture Show, 1978. Photo: Marshall Johnson. Image courtesy of the artist. [Two people sit at a table while a third person places a plate of food in front of them.] -
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Jenny Snider. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie, 1985. [A painting of two figures, one in the foreground and the other in the background. Towards the top of the painting reads, "IT'S A SIN TO TELL A LIE".] -
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a clarinet on stage, bathed in blue and pink light.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a performer dressed in white, kneeling on all fours. A bright light from their pelvic area shines onto the floor, as viewers stand around the figure.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr.: Mirage Collar. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a gallery space with several dark columns. A small wooden chest with a red piece of fabric and three white objects on top along with a small wooden stool are visible in the foreground. Further in the background are a yellow couch and a large wicker pannier..] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view, Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation photograph of two sculptures in a gallery space. The sculpture closer to the camera is composed of a human skeleton, and anatomical models of human heads, a brain, and a spine. The sculpture in the background features several monitors, and is topped by a sculpture of an eagle in mid-flight.]
