“Artists’ Walks: The Persistence of Peripateticism” Exhibition
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
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D O R S K Y G A L L E R Y | Curatorial Programs presents the continuation of its program of independently-curated exhibitions, Artists’ Walks: the Persistence of Peripateticism curated by Earl Miller. Participating artists include Marina Abramović, Stanley Brouwn, Janet Cardiff & Georges Bures Miller, Hamish Fulton, Neil Goldberg, General Idea, Lucy Gunning, Richard Long, Gwen MacGregor, Gwen MacGregor & Sandra Rechico, Danica Phelps, Samuel Rowlett, and Jessica Thompson.
As Miller writes in his essay, “In his seminal series, This Way Brouwn (1960-1964), Stanley Brouwn was the first artist who claimed walks as art, …[ meriting] a place alongside the stripes of Buren, Warhol’s soup cans and Falvin’s fluorescent light fixtures as one of the paradigmatic gestures of the postwar era. The pastoral, peripatetic practice of art walks has … grown from the discrete practice of isolated artists to a cross-pollinated genre. Indeed, a half-century later, artists’ walks … have ridden on the high tide of social practice art from the 1990s onward that encouraged art production and sometimes presentation outside studios and galleries. They have gained a wider audience because of their hybridization with other genres and fields, notably performance art, video art, and urban geography. They have been granted increased potential for experimentation by GPS and Google map technologies’ provision of new documentary possibilities.”
The artists of the present exhibition, Marina Abramović , Stanely Brouwn, Janet Cardiff & Georges Bures Miller, Hamish Fulton, Neil Goldberg, General Idea, Lucy Gunning, Richard Long, Gwen MacGregor, Gwen MacGregor & Sandra Rechico, Danica Phelps, Samuel Rowlett, and Jessica Thompson, all explore, expand and incorporate into their individual and collective art practices the paradigm of the artist’s walk as first espoused by Stanley Brouwn.
Earl Miller is an independent curator and art writer based in Toronto. He has curated exhibitions across Canada in public galleries and institutions such as the Doris McCarthy Gallery, the Yukon Art Centre, the Tree Museum, and the Art Gallery of York University. He has written catalogue essays for galleries and institutions ranging from the National Museum of Romania, to the Art Gallery of Hamilton, to Le Crédac: Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Ivry. His essays have also appeared in books: The Communism of Forms and Gordon Monahan: Seeing Sound. In addition, he has contributed to numerous visual arts periodicals including Art in America, Canadian Art and Flash Art. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (IACA).
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Schedule
from September 08, 2013 to November 17, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-09-08 from 14:00 to 17:00