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EXIT HISTORY:
Paradise 8
1/16/1999 - 4/3/1999
Curator(s): Pip Day, Dominique Nahas, Odili Donald Odita, Kenny
Schachter, Ingrid Scaffner, Franklin Sirmans, Henry Urbach, Martha
Wilson
Artists: Luis Felipe Ortega & Daniel Guzman, Helen Mirra,
Francis Alys, Bruce Ferguson, James Walsh, Stephanie Theodore,
Mara Jayne Miller, Karin Schneider, Dave Herman, Gilbert Vicario,
Barbara Clausen, Emily Cantrell, Vanessa Conté, Tracy Heneberger,
Jeff Miller, Ripley & Jackson, jj pine, John Powers, Ellen
Sayers, Raven Schlossberg, Stephen J. Shanabrook, Bili Bidjocka,
Monika Brandmeier, Manuel Camargo, Rolo Castillo, Dan Devine, Vivienne
Koorland, Pam Lins, Charles Long, Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky, Jesus
Polanco , Txuspo Poyo, Peter Rostovsky, Lisa Ruyter, Fatimah Tuggar,
Dirk Westphal, Toshihiro Yashiro, Mimi Young, Bonnie Seeman, Edwin
Vera, Jun Iseyama, Jacob Williams, Alfredo Martinez, Rob Pruitt,
Ricci Albenda, Spencer Finch, Jonathan Horowitz, Marco Brambilla,
Thuy Pham, Amy Gatrell, Liz Bougatsos/actress, Hiroshi Suniari,
Ilona Rich, Robert Chambers, John LeKay, Devon Dikeou , Brendan
Cass, Julien Laverdiere , Gus Romero, Antek Walczak, Daniel McDonald,
Michael Gitter, Lisa Ruyter, Darrell Maupin, John Kelsey, B Team,
Graham Gillmore, Lawrence Seward, Ruth Root, Dan Asher, Carroll
Leggett, Joan Linder, Richard Kern , Michael Lavine, Charlie Finch,
Curtis Cuffie, Mark Seliger, Fat Witch Bakery, John Defazio, Sam
Easterson, Angelo Filomeno , Michel Gerard , Harold Graves, Shlomo
Harush , Ben Kinmont , Howard McCalebb , Olu Oguibe , William Pope
L. , Sol Sax , Gloria Williams, Laylah Ali, Edgar Arceneaux, Kira
Lynn Harrris, Romuald Hazoume, Margherita Manzelli, Dario Robleto,
Gunther Selichar, Lindsay Brant, Type A, Martha Burgess, Ilona
Granet, Max Klein / , Jacquelyn Schiffman, Alice Wu, William Pope.
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Exhibition: Paradise 8 was the second project in an experimental
program of new curatorial initiatives. For this project, Exit Art
invited eight New York based independent curators to work collectively,
exposing the role of curator in contemporary culture. The curators
met for several months and incorporated their ideas in a collectively
curated project that took place over three months beginning January
16.
Eight curators came together for three months to explore and present
a series of hypotheses, of works-in-progress. The eight initially
distinct zones within the space shifted, melded, and mutated over
the course of the three months. The goal was not to realize a ‘finished
product’ within the space. Paradise 8 attempted to uproot
the notion of the ‘definitive’ exhibition and replace
stasis with kinesis. Here paradise was invoked as a hypothetical
space in which to explore various ways of investigating and presenting
art and culture.
The Stroke: An Overview of Contemporary Painting Curated by Nine
Painters
5/1/1999 - 7/2/1999
Curator(s): Ross Bleckner, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Kerry
James Marshall, Suzanne McClelland, Elizabeth Murray, Lari Pittman,
David Reed, Shahzia Sikhander
Artists: Andy Warhol, Moira Dryer, Uta Barth, Diti Almog, Tom
Sachs, Adam Fuss, Andrew Masullo, Bill Jacobson, Keith Mayerson,
Philip Taaffe, Eric Freeman, Peter Cain, Alan Turner, Pedro Bell,
David Fludd, Alicia Henry, Helen Mirra, Amy Sillman, Gelsey Verna,
Emily Cheng, Ruby Palmer, Hulda Stefansdottir, Hiroe Niimi, Fred
Holland, Shoshana Dentz, Katurah Hutcheson, Joe Amrhein, John Benton,
Luisa Chase, Steve DeFrank, Hermine Ford, Joanne Greenbaum, Mary
Obering, James Siena, Jessica Weiss, Jack Whitten, Renee Petropoulos,
Elizabeth Cooper, Pam Fraser, Nicholas Krushenick, Carl Ostendarp,
Monique Prieto, Sebastian Bremer, David McGee, Julie Mehretu
Exhibition: The Stroke was the third exhibition in a yearlong
experimental program of new curatorial initiatives at Exit Art.
This exhibition presented a multi-faceted view of painting today,
as seen by some of its most respected practitioners.
Exit Art invited the nine painters, each representing a different
perspective of contemporary painting, to engage their own curatorial
ideas. In the role of curator, these painters had been asked to
present the work of artists whose work has touched them in a personal
way, they may have been young artists whom they wanted to support,
or more established artists, perhaps one of their peers.
Each curator had one wall at Exit Art as his or her curatorial
space. They could choose to explore one artist in depth, a group
of artists, hang the work salon style, choose one large piece,
etc. Each of the curator’s selections was shown within
the context of a larger exhibition, so that new readings of relationships,
influences and differences among a diverse group of artists may
have been suggested.
Monumental Drawings
9/18/1999 - 10/30/1999
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Nina Bovasso, Nicole Eisenman, Judy Glantzman, Kim Jones,
Jane Kaplowitz, Jason Clay Lewis, Mark Lombardi, Alice Maher, Yigal
Ozeri, Joyce Pensato, Jonathon Rosen, Rudy Royval, Mark Dean Veca,
Jason Zalk, Michael Zansky, Daniel Zeller
Exhibition: Monumental Drawings was an exhibition
of large-scale works that explored drawing as an autonomous medium,
and featured
the work of sixteen artists. Long considered a route towards painting
(or, to quote co-curator Papo Colo, the “great adventure
before painting”), for contemporary artists drawing is a
valid medium with its own history, context, and innovations. The
large-scale emphasized physicality in line and texture, and at
the same time, the grand expanse commanded the viewer’s attention.
Some work contained large, gestural strokes, other work were rendered
with meticulous, minute detail. In featuring large-scale or “monumental” works,
the exhibition challenged the traditional conceptions of drawing
as an intimate or precious medium. Each drawing challenged the
viewer with its physical scale and gestural capacities of the hand
and body. Taken together, Monumental Drawings investigated the
action of drawing.
Choice 99
11/13/1999 - 12/31/1999
Curator(s): Janine Antoni, Nan Goldin, Jerry Kearns, Sol Lewitt,
Brice Marden, Donald Sultan, Carrie Mae Weems
Artists: Karin Campbell, Michael Joseph, Anissa Mack, Douglas
Ross, Axelle Le Dauphin, Anitra Menning, Nicolas Pages, Amy Steiner,
Inga Bing, Line Bruntse, Gregory S. Kline, Thomas Matsuda, Kate
Teale, Nora York, Jeffrey Isaac, Robin Heidi Kennedy, Marco Tirelli,
Todd Schroeder, Victor Matthews, Jane Creech, Thomas Kovachevich,
Bobbie Oliver, Holly Sumner, Candida Alvarez, Todd Gray, Janet
Henry, Tierney Malone
Exhibition: Choice 99 was Exit Art’s second annual exhibition/fall
benefit that identified unknown and emerging artists through the
viewpoint of leading contemporary artists. After the enthusiastic
public and critical response to last year’s extraordinary
exhibition, The Choice, Exit Art decided to make this an annual
event. For this exhibition, we invited a group of established artists
to engage their own curatorial ideas. In the role of curator, these
artists were asked to present the work of artists they have followed
or whose work has affected them in a personal way. In keeping with
Exit Art’s mission to bring the work of emerging artists
to a broader audience, they were asked that the artists they chose
had not had major exposure.
Each of the participating artists/curators
was chosen for their different perspectives on contemporary art.
Through juxtaposing each of the curator’s selections within
the context of a larger exhibition, new readings of relationships,
influences, parallels and differences among a diverse group of
artists may be suggested.
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