"Offset Summary" Exhibition
Rachel Uffner Gallery
This event has ended.
Towards the back of Rachel Uffner Gallery, a canny viewer might spot a faint rectangular impression on the plaster of one of the space’s sidewalls. This is a covered-over remnant of Lawrence Weiner’s 1968 piece, A 36’’x 36’’ Removal to the Lathing or Support Wall of Plaster or Wallboard from a Wall, which was once on display at Orchard, in the same space Uffner’s gallery now occupies. The idea of reconfiguration and spatial intervention – a hallmark of conceptual art, as well as of institutional critique – is central to this exhibition.
The Lawrence Weiner piece, now an uncanny transplant, reminds us of how objects once embedded with certain properties and meaning can reactivate a space through spatial or material shifts. The artists in this exhibition share (each in their distinct way) an interest in a type of visual and substantive displacement. Beginning with familiar objects and imagery, they proceed to upend our expectations of how various media, and objects in general, perform in space.
[Image: Simpson/Meade "(film still from) Marsyas" (2010) 16 mm film transferred to HDV, 1 min.15 sec.]
Media
Schedule
from January 16, 2011 to February 20, 2011
Closing Reception on 2011-02-19 from 19:00
With poetry readings organized by Zak Kitnick and Roger Van Voorhees.
Artist(s)
Kathryn Andrews, Zak Kitnick, Yves Klein, Mary Simpson, Simpson/Meade