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Beverly Buchanan, slab works, c. 1978–1980. Cast concrete sculptures with acrylic paint. Dimensions unknown. Courtesy the Frances Mulhall Achiles Library, Artist File, Whitney Museum of American Art. [Installation view of several cast concrete blocks arranged on top of one another and leaning against each other, in two groups, standing on a wood floor.] -
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.] -
Renee Gladman, Untitled (black city), 2022, oil pastel and pigment on paper, 30 x 44 inches. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a drawing consisting of green, purple, yellow, and red lines and shapes that form an abstract composition. Single line white drawings complement the composition.] -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of the corner of a gallery space. Two pillars run down the side of the space, inbetween them is a black leather couch with a soft sculpture of a figure laying down, wearing a durag, with a red PlayStation controller. In front of the couch is a table, comprised of a glass panel and a sculpture of a figure laying down with their backside raised. On the left wall is an arrangement of framed drawings. On the right wall is a large red painting, alongside more framed drawings.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure smiles and stands behind a music stand and microphone.] -
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[Collaged atop a blue, beige, and orange field is a series of abstract graphic and typewritten elements, including a womans face placed sideways with green tape over it. In the middle, on a piece of blue paper, is the list of performers and text reading "aBASEmEnt 62 at ArTists SpACe" along with the location and time of the event.] -
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.] -
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (Beware of a Holy Whore). Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 1971. [Two people sitting in front of a window looking towards the camera, one wearing a red dress and the other a black shirt and top hat.] -
Sistema Sandinista de Television. Still from Golpes de la Corazon (Blows of the Heart), 1983. Video (sound, black and white). Spanish with English subtitles. [Older man with microphone stands next to five small boys. The wall behind them reads "en esta esquina" in black letters on one side and "CDS" in white letters on the other. Subtitles burned into the image at the bottom read, "Our prizes are 2000, 1000 and 500!" Video scan lines and outer edges of CRT monitor are visible.] -
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Yellow. Performance view, Artists Space, 2008. [A woman is seated wearing a long, yellow dress with a full skirt. She has the front of the skirt held in her teeth, with her hands on her knees. There are some soap suds on her hands, near her mouth, and on the front of the skirt.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of a performer singing into a microphone stand, positioned along the center of the wall. The audience sits on the floor around the center of the room, where hanging screens depict a projected video of a close-up of a figure's face with a bright light coming from one side of the image.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Audience members are seated along a back wall, with a figure in a blue morph suit seated on a rectangular wooden frame alongside them. Blue light is projected onto a screen in the background.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view featuring various ephemera from Personal Problems, c. 1980, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up of a glass display case holding images and multiple booklets of text.] -
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.] -
Margit Lewczuk. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985. -
Danh Vo: Autoerotic Asphyxiation. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Close-up of a rectangular, silver metal plaque hanging on a white gallery wall. The plaque is inscribed with a diagram of an exhibition space. Numbers note the location of the artworks, while a key next to the diagram notes the titles and other tombstone information of the works.] -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view (what he thinks about when he sees him, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a soft sculpture, placed on the floor and leanning against a blue and white wall. The sculpture depicts a Black Queer figure dressed in black, with accents of white, blue and yellow. On top of their head is a wooden brush.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A bar with four wooden stools positioned in the corner of a room. A neon sign hangs above to the left of a fiber sculpture. On the left wall, a monitor is displayed on top of plastered posters.] -
Abasement #75. Performance documentation, February 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer standing in the center of the frame, looking down while playing an electric guitar. In the foreground the backs of audience members are blurred. The scene is decorated with an abstract striped projection resembling a screen glitch.] -
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Mark Morrisroe: From This Moment On. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A white wall displaying eight papers. On the far left, there is a drawing of a knife with the handwritten text "Cutthroats for Hire." The seven other papers feature type, handwriting, and photos.] -
Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist, by Alexander Zevin, published by Verso Books, 2019. [A digital image of a red book title, overlaid several times on top of itself. A world map centered on the Atlantic ocean is visible in orange beneath the title.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Two figures perform next to each other on stage. One stands, hands out, singing in front of a microphone. The other sits down, playing the guitar.] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image taken between two curtains of a TV affixed to a wall on the right, displaying blue-tinted video footage of the performance with a fresnel lens hanging in front of the TV display.] -
Jenny Holzer, Truisms Golf Balls, 1992. [Eight vibrantly colored blue, pink, yellow, and orange golf balls rest on a white backdrop. Various statements written in black capitalized text adorn each gold ball, including phrases such as, "PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT" and "RAISE BOYS AND GIRLS THE SAME WAY."] -
Portrait of Jackie Wang. [A figure, centered within the frame, leans against a beige tiled wall and stares directly into the camera.] -
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PATTERNS / Marcelo Spina with Kreysler & Associates, Macro Piece, 2006. [Detail view of a greyscale sculpture made of varying polymer segments.] -
Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A white speaker displayed on a three-legged stand in an exhibition space. To the right of the stand, a television monitor rests on the ground. An image of gravel and dirt is pictured on its screen.] -
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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Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three female mannequins arranged in front of five hanging timelines marked 2002-2006. The first mannequin sits in a chair and is wearing a golden shirt and black skirt with a towel tossed over its shoulder. The second wears several scarf chokers, a shirt cut in two pieces resembling an "x", and gray jeans accessorized with two button pins and large thigh cutouts. The third wears an Adidas jersey decorated with a "bc" logo and black baggy pants.] -
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Exhibition poster for ‘The Sights and Sounds of the Jewish East End’ at The Whitechapel Gallery, London. Design by Richard Hollis, 1980. Courtesy Richard Hollis [An advertisement split down the middle with text and image. On the left text reads, "The Sights and Sounds of the Jewing East End at the Whitechapel Gallery." On the right, a portrait of a family outside a corner shop of which the window reads, "John Jameson Whiskey."] -
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The columns held us up. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [An archway made of cardboard boxes connected to a bookcase and curved desk, also made of cardboard. A white lucky waving cat is placed at the bottom left side of the desk. The desk and bookcase are supported by a platform, underneath of which a pair of slippers are visible.] -
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.] -
Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield, still from Nancy Spero: An Interview, 1982. 35 min. [A close-up, black and white photo of a person mid-speech, looking off-center.] -
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Rachel Harrison, April 2020, 2020, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [A digitally-collaged image featuring an abstract drawing of a female figure. The figure has been depicted in bright pink, purple, and red hues using sporadic linework. Areas of red color frame the left and bottom sides of the drawing. White text on the red surface is partially cut off by the image's frame. Black text at the top edge of the image reads, "April 2020 1w," while white text below the drawn figure reads, "on view now." Small black text running along the image's bottom edge reads, "2020Solidarity - Rachel Harrison / A project by Between Bridges."] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure dressed in white, laying on the floor of a dark room. The figure has one leg raised in the air, shining a light from their pelvic area onto the floor and wall across from them. A small TV monitor sits in the corner.] -
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.] -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of the entrance into a gallery space, with columns running down the hallway. At the forefront of the image are two large paintings made of adobe, and resting on steel armatures. Each painting features a representation of a person walking slowly. In between the armatures are adobe bricks layed out into a walkway on the floor.] -
[A digital rendering of a dark tank filled with water. Spherical pods sit into the top of the tank, with one pod lying sideways next to it.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Wide view of a white-walled gallery space with various artworks visible on the walls.] -
Ursula Biemann, still from Writing Desire, 2000. Video, 23 minutes. Courtesy the artist. [A nightime view of a truck driving past a parking lot. In the top left of the image is a superimposed video of a blond woman. The words "Hello I'm Natascha" appear in red to the right of the woman.] -
Installation view of Barbara Bloom's Solution. From Barbara Bloom, David Salle, Artists Space, 1976. [Color photograph of a figure sitting at the head of a table with seven chairs in an empty room. In front of each chair there is a small stack of papers.] -
Ministry of Interior building in Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba. [The façade of a building adorned with a large, metal frame sculpture of the face of Che Guevara.] -
Book spreads from Exhibitionism, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2025. [Carousel of spreads from an artist's book, featuring text and reproductions of colorful paintings and drawings.] -
The Founders Dinner, 2019. [A color photo of two smiling individuals seated at a banquet table, the person to the right has her hand on another guest's shoulder. The background depicts several other guests out of focus.] -
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The Issues of Our Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Adam Reich. [Three metal cutouts of hands, each displaying a different finger expression, are installed on a white wall. Each hand holds stacks of white, blue, and purple cards.] -
Orchidary Siahaya, headline poem, 2019 [A hand holds up a lined notebook with a poem collaged from newspaper cutouts which says, "This is not normal what's at stake life,/ our lives death most people run/ to a sadness disbelief/ and play bloody/ fire."] -
Pope.L, Some Basic Problems of Re-Gifting, 2019. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a bright green cloth-lined box with a bright blue interior, placed on a white pedestal. On one side of the opened box lies a copy of "stories and texts for nothing" by Samuel Beckett. On the top side of the box is a small piece of torn paper.] -
Mike Kelley, Untitled, 1992, Beech wood paddle with screen print and leather strap, 23 1/4 in x 6 in x 3/4 in / 59.1 cm x 15.2 cm x 1.9 cm, Edition of 50. [The image shows a wooden paddle with the preamble for the U.S. Constitution reproduced on it. It says, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."] -
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers on standing on stage. The performer in the foreground is lit with pink light. They are holding their arm out touching a cymbal with a red drum stock in hand. They are looking down with their eyes closed. The performer in the background is out of focus, they are bathed in blue light. Drums surround the stage. A seated audience is out of focus in the background. The back wall features two projections, one is an abstract arrangement of shades of blue. The other has sharp geometric shapes in red, green, and yellow.] -
Ethan Crenson, Fission, 1996. Mixed media installation. [A corner of a room filled with ping pong balls set atop mousetraps. They are lit from the side by a fluorescent tube light.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure dressed in white, laying down on a window ledge facing the street. They raise on arm up and a white light shines from their pelvic area.] -
[The word "WAGE" with periods seperating each letter appears on a multi-colored background. The "A" in "WAGE" is colored yellow.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a dimly lit basement with various sculptures made of wood and fresnel lenses placed around the space. Contact microphones are attached to the fresnel lenses and audio wires wrap around the floor. Along the back wall a blue projected image of live CCTV footage of the basement is displayed.] -
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.] -
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Welcome to My World. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [Five framed drawings hang on white panel, suspended on a wooden frame that extends into and across the room.] -
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Works by Dieter Roth Published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer [Fibe book covers displayed in a line against a white background. Each one has been illustrated over with various colos of marker and pen.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of a installation and sound work. In the right foreground, two lab tables contain a lab equipment such as beakers, distilling chambers, jars, hot plate and two blenders. On the left midground, an antique cabinet with its doors open, reveals shelves and drawers filled with more lab equipment, such as a microscope and household items such as a dustpan. In the background, two box television screens sit on top of wooden lab tables. A posterboard with a periodic table rests on top of the televisions. Each "element" of the periodic table features a small lightbulb that glows.] -
[Black and white photograph of several wooden boxes and drawers filled with small animal bones and preserved insects. Several animal skulls are scattered around and in between the drawers.] -
Michael Asher, Untitled. Installation view, Artists Space, 1988. [In the corner of a room, close to the ceiling, is an industrial light fixture. The lightbulb is on and faces up towards the ceiling.] -
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[Video still of a figure in glasses wearing a pink dress with black tulle fabric on a small stage. An overturned, white table is siutated to their right, and papers are strewn across the ground. The figure hunches over, looking out towards the audience. Their left hand is bent at their chest and points upwards, while their right hand touches the back of their head.] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view (ephemera c. 1965-1987), Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a vitrine containing ephemeral material, including pamphlets, photographs, and a blue flyer.] -
Alza Tu Voz, front porch, exhibition at Dykeman Farmhouse Museum, 2017 [A photograph of the outside of a brick building, with two signs standing against the wall, between the building's front windows, on the porch. The signs depict stylized figures, one saying "No Mas Racism," and the other, "No a la discriminacion hispana"] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Richard Loranger and Yanyi. Saturday, November 21, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Keith Higginbotham [Two cropped photographs of figures cut into irregular shapes are laid over a light blue background. White and blue text on the image reads "Richard Loranger / Yanyi / Segue."] -
Spring Exhibitions. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [A large room with wooden floors. In the right corner, there is a wall creating a corner that is covered in colorful wallpaper with images of tropical birds on trees. Several framed pictures are displayed on one side of the wall, partially obscured by a white column. To the left, there are three standing plinths with glass tops, housing dried brown plants.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure plays a bell into three microphones.] -
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Activated Walls. Installation view, Artists Space, 1993. [A wooden chair facing the corner of a room. Painted on one wall is an empty red frame. On the perpendicular wall, there are several half-finished paintings of children.] -
[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)"] -
Abasement #63. Performance documentation, July 17, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close-up color image of a musician holding a saxaphone to his body. One hand holds the instrument while the other hand is held up to his face in a contemplative gesture. Hues from diffused rainbow and bright purple lights are cast against the performer and in the interior space.] -
Gerhard Richter Volker Bradke , December 13, 1966 From the exhibition Hommage an Schmela (Homage to Schmela), December 9 – 15, 1966. Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf Courtesy Archiv Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ratingen © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Photo: Reiner Ruthenbeck [A black and white image of four people, one sitting, three standing in a patterned room displaying a large photograph on the left wall. On the right wall, two men stand underneath large block text, that reads, "Volker Bradk."] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [An ashtray with the text, "Martini," three Schweppes bottles, six Coca-Cola bottle, and nine drinking classes arranged face down on a silver platter are displayed on a white counter top.] -
Duncan Campbell: Make it new John. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Six orange papers arranged in a rectangle are painted with the letters "DMC SIT-IN" in black text.] -
Michael Sorkin, Model City, 1989. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A composition of lines, circles, and angles made of wood and metal is affixed to a wall, covering the surface.] -
Goodman, Ken. [A sculpture is seen on the left leaning on a platform and on the right is a painter's palette lying next to it.] -
Diane Tallan, Royal Flush, Baby!, c. 1977. Acrylic, glitter, canvas, deciban. 9x13 inches. [A black and white photograph of a sculptural hand of cards with a ten, jack, queen, and king of diamonds. The piece is placed over a brick surface.] -
Artists Space, Richard Massey: Caution: Five hungry Soviet cows are in the garden (New York: Artists Space, 2007). [White text on a neutral green ground lists exhibition information. "Artists Space" is outlined in all capital letters aligned to the spine of the catalogue. In the upper left corner, "Caution: Five hungry Soviet cows are in the Garden" is rendered in sans serif font, some letters appearing smudged. The center right of the cover reads "Richard Massey, 03.30–05.12.2007, Project Space."] -
Group Material: Primer (for Raymond Williams). Artists Space, 1982. [A view of a bedroom with various imagery on the walls along with a line and clothespins and a dotted line cloth on a matress lying on the floor.] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 18, 2022, 7:30pm. Artists Space, New York. [Projections of elongated gold figures.] -
Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism. Installation view of the section “Düsseldorf and the Rhineland (1957–1964)," Artists Space, 2014. [An angled view of two adjacent gray walls displaying various paper material, documents, and photographs.] -
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.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a darkly lit room. A figure sits behind a white table filled with audio equipment and two standing microphones are placed above the table. Light sensors are attached to the wall behind the figure where a projection of images plays.] -
Frames 2-9: installation views of Ken Lum’s “Untitled Sculpture”; Frames 10-23:installation views of Nic Nicosia’s “Domestic Dramas” ; Frames 27-35: installation views of Peter Waite’s “Las Meninas”. Artists Space, 1982. [Contact sheets made from the installation of the exhibition.] -
Guy de Cointet, Tell Me, 1979. Performance at MoMA, New York. Performed by Helen Mendez, Jane Zingale, Denise Domergue. Courtesy Guy de Cointet Society and Air de Paris, Paris. Photo: Kira Perov. [Three people, bent over each other looking at an open door.] -
Untitled, Taro Quirk, City-As-School high school student, 2021, digital photograph. -
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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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Yasunao Tone performing Music for Reed Organ (1962), Repetition and Structures, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1972 [Black-and-white photograph of a figure sitting in a chair on stage, with their hands behind their head. They are sitting behind a reed organ covered in a plastic sheet with an ice cube placed on top of the keyboard. Behind the reed organ is a clock on a music stand.] -
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view (Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, The Lil Rat that Made it on Board the Ship, 2021; Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Goyas lil bat from “sueño de la razón produce monstruos”, 2022), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A hulking biomorphic black sculpture, composed of car parts and a large black t-shirt smeared with pigmented dragon skin silicone, hangs from the ceiling. To the right, a small sculpture of scuffed white plastic, brown fur, and various jutting animal teeth sits on a shelf.] -
Angie Eng, still from Undersites, 1996. Video. [A negative exposure of several people standing or walking in a hallway with an arched ceiling.] -
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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.] -
Isabelle Frances McGuire, The Death of a Giant, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A life-size off-white foam sculpture of a naked human form, in the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, rests supine on a low white platform.] -
Ralph Paquin and Ann Stoddard, ERAWA - ERA WAS, 1990. Installation view, Artists Space, 1990. [A large paper-maché head lays face-up on a metal scaffolding. Above it, green cursive text reads, "ring is worn out by constant use."] -
Tilo Schulz, Remake Performance, Artists Space, 2004. [Two men walking inside a large inflatable sphere being followed by a crowd of people, some who are filming them, outside in a grassy and paved area.] -
Baskets. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A series of amorphous, basket-like objects sit on a series of plinths of varying heights in a gallery space. The baskets are composed of a variety of materials, including wood, grass, gourd, and paper.] -
New Red Order, Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, Artists Space, January 23, 2020. Photo © Paula Court. [Figures wearing partial face coverings stand in front of a projection that reads: "We cover for you / new red order"] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #3. Performance documentation, March 16, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of four figures seated in a row on a stage. Each figure sits behind a music stand.] -
[A black and white, vintage photograph of a male figure leaning casually against a low wall by a river. The figure's long back faces the viewer, and we cannot see his face. He wears a short piece of cloth at his waist, while his upper body is bare.] -
Crystal Z Campbell, Revolver, 2022. 16mm film transferred to Digital Video, Stereo, Sound. 17:27 min. Courtesy the artist [Negative film image of two hands holding down either side of a blue board. Objects are placed to create vaguely recognizable patterns and figures.] -
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Jill Kroesen, Previews of Lou and Walter. Performance documentation, November 12, 1977, Artists Space. [A black and white photograph of a performance. Three figures stand in a cleared portion of a room, each one balancing on their right foot. A crowd looks on.] -
Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure plays the guitar sitting down, while another figure stands behind him playing the bass.] -
Michael Robinson. Still from All Through the Night, 2008. [A ghostly, blurry figure in white with their arms out with digital light blurs swirled around.] -
Abasement #64. Performance documentation, August 7, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color photo of two musicians captured mid-performance in a dark venue space. Both musicians have their back turned to the camera; the man to the right plays the trumpet while the performer on the left plays the clarinet. Some seated audience members can be seen observing the musicians and are illuminated by deep red overhead lights and the glow from a bright yellow projection light being shone at the performers.] -
[White text overlays a color-scheme grid background. The text reads: “Oct 28 / A celebration of the poems of Mark Hyatt with Sam Ladkin, Luke Roberts, et al." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
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.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of bright yellow paper. Pieces of paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.] -
Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Two photographs mounted on a white gallery wall.] -
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[A digital rendering of a large structure composed of suspended sheets of red material installed in a gray room. The red sheets are stacked on top of one another, suspended from lengths of wire that run from ceiling to floor. The sheets bend amorphously and are arranged such that they resemble irregular layers of sedimentary rock or strata. Three digitally-rendered figures observe the structure.] -
Terry Fox: All These Different Things Are Sculpture. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a freestanding white wall that emerges from the left side of the frame into the gallery space. On the wall, there is a row of six items including two handwritten documents, a drawing, a map, a mounted TV screen displaying a black and white image of a cloth and a small white shelf that holds a plexi box. In the background, a black and white projected image of a fork and spoon is visible on a back wall. ] -
Jack Smith: Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A side projector projects an image of a figure in an elaborate dress onto a freestanding wall in the middle of a gallery space. A mannequin wearing a decorative orange costumes stands to the left of the projection. In the background, a video monitor sits on a table and framed documents hang on the walls.] -
Jutta Koether: xxapollo. Performance documentation, January 5, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A person dressed in all pink extends a heart-shaped canvas in front of her, while her eyes look away. She is surrounded by rapt audience members arranged in a semi-circle around her. There are light spots reflected at even intervals patterning the room.] -
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. ] -
Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (Ms. Pac-Man, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [In a darkened room lit softly by red light, overlapping lines of open captions are projected on two adjacent black walls. The text varies in color (in faint greens, yellows and blues) and size.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cutouts of scattered blocky letters (reading ABASEMENT) and a series of people's heads overlay a light yellow background. A chunk of upside down text lists the performers, as well as the time and place of the event.] -
Cover of Christopher D'Arcangelo, Kunstverein Publishing and Artists Space. Photo: Cathy Weiner. [Scan of the cover and back cover of a book. On the front cover, black text on a white background reads "Christopher D'Arcangelo." The back cover features a black-and-white photograph of a figure doing a headstand, their back facing the viewer. The figure is shirtless, exposing black text written on their skin.] -
Art Day, Blue Sky Gallery, 2017 [Eight colorful paintings are exhibited in a grid pattern on a wall with a small didactic. "Blue Sky Gallery - P.S. 140 and Artists Space Expanded Art Ideas" is printed on the wall.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Amber Dawn & Kai Cheng Thom. Saturday March 13, 2021, Artists Space. [A green colored background features black text in the top half of the image that reads, "Segue Reading Series / Amber Dawn & Kai Cheng Thom / March 13 / 5pm on Zoom / Suggested donation: Five dollars / Zoom ID: 830 2698 4031." Black text in the bottom right corner reads, "Artists Space."] -
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Portrait of Carman Moore. [A color photograph of a figure from the chest up. Moore wears a green collared shirt and looks directly into the camera. He stands in front of a translucent glass background, in whose reflection buildings are faintly visible.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of an individual standing and smiling jovially towards the camera. A podium can be seen to the left of the image, and a variety of seated party guests are also imaged within the elegant and decorative venue.] -
Dream Lines: Marian Zazeela. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Fish-eye view featuring various clusters of framed works on paper hanging on three white gallery walls.] -
See Around. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [An image of a shoreline is projected on a trifold screen.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A wooden bar with four chairs and a palm tree in a pot is displayed against a white wall.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A large black display case with several books arranged in a small viewing window. One book is titled *MOBY-DICK*, while another displays japanese text and a woman on its cover.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Three figures perform in a basement. On the left a figure in a blue morph suit wears a pair of wings made of fresnel lenses. On the right another figure in a blue morph suit stands behind a rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses. Another figure to the far right takes video footage.] -
Cover of Lonnie Holley, Rizzoli Electa, 2025. [Book cover featuring a black background, and a sculpture resembling a cross, with the word "MITH" engraved into a block of stone. In the top right corner of the cover bold text reads "Lonnie Holley."] -
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.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Installation view, Artists Space, New York, 2022. [A color image of a pink-hued room inside which an irregularly shaped platform with a reflective surface sits on the ground. Objects such as plants, a fish tank, and tree stumps sit on and around the platform.] -
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.] -
[A moving gif of a paper diagram blowing from the wind of a computer device. The top right corner of the machine reads, "StarTech.com"] -
Based on a True Story. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [Three paintings arranged in a horizontal line on a white wall. Each painting depicts a man walking on city streets or in a park.] -
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Enough Tiranny Recalled (Artists Space), 2009, 6 color screenprint, 24 x 24 in (60 x 60 cm), Edition of 10 + 3AP. [The screenprint shows a collage of photos some in black & white and some in color. Some images show scenes with people and others document different multimedia installations. On top of the collage in large white block letters is written "Enough / Tyranny, / Recalled."] -
Eds. Hugues Decointet, François Piron, Marilou Thiébault, Guy de Cointet: The Complete Plays (Paraguay Press, 2017). [A red and grey minimal book cover.] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A long piece of plexiglass hangs vertically from the cieling in a gallery. Eight postcards are mounted onto the plexiglass. All of the postcards depict different garbage trucks, shown from the exact same angle. ] -
Andy Robert, Favorite Perch, 2023. Taxidermy crow, hair, bottle caps, iron nails, iron axe. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A color image of a gallery space. In the corner of a gallery space, a taxidermied crow is perched atop an iron axe that is decorated with bottle caps. The crow and the iron axe are placed upon a tall pedestal about four feet tall, so that the crow is at, or above the viewers eye level. Entangled in the birds feathers and wings are strands of black hair.] -
[Black text listing the collection's features. From top to bottom, it reads, "The Defaced Library Books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton," "edition hansjörg mayer," "Vigilance: An Exhibition Of Artist’s Books Exploring Strategies for Social Concern After an exhibition curated by Mike Grier and Lucy R. Lippard," "The Colin De Land Library," "Everything is About to Happen: An ongoing archive of artists’ books selected by Gregorio Magnani," and "The Library of Helen DeWitt."] -
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Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a colorful background, with blue, pink, yellow and beige paper. Cut up pieces of beige paper are scattered throughout the image, and feature typewritten text listing the performers and event details.] -
Reinventado, exhibition at Word Up Community Bookshop, 2018 [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] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures on stilts appear in motion.] -
Pictured right:. Scott Burton. Pastoral Chair Tableau, 1971—74. From Scott Burton, Pamela Jenrette, Artists Space, 1975. [A dyptich of color photographs. The one on the left shows an empty alleyway. The one on the right shows six chairs in front of a blue curtain.] -
James Coleman. Still from Seeing for Oneself, 1987-88. Slideshow (black and white), 40 min. [A black and white film still of a person lying against embroidered pillows. Another person sits alongside her and holds a mirror up to her face, reflecting it towards the camera.] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [Five figures wearing ornate green outfits play instruments. In front of them, a crowd can be seen sitting down.] -
Nick Mauss, So long, 2013. Ceramic plaque, 11 x 15 inches. Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York. [An abstract painting composed of central strokes of light orange paint framed from above and below by two stripes of blue paint at the composition's top and bottom edges. Black paint markings punctuate the wash of orange color.] -
Malaika Villamizar, Untitled, 2021, digital photography -
Jerry Beck, Red Earth Cross, 1985. [A sculpted cross appears on a larger sculpted cross along with a small bottle on its left, a ladder inset on the right and an open text on the bottom part. All is hung on a white gallery wall and dimensions are written above the sculpture in pencil.] -
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Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Untitled, 2022. Raw Power, Raw Power; Kollettivo, Lotta per il potere; Antigenesi, Una donna non e’ merda; Negazione, Tutti Pazzi; RAF Punk, Contro la pace Contro la guerra; Peggio Punx, Scemo. 8mm to MP4 transfer (color, sound), monitors, chairs. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a wooden cafe chair with a green cushion in a gallery space. The chair is placed in front of a small seam in the wall. A television screen rests on top of the chair.] -
Charles Simonds. Still from Mythologies, 1974. From Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, James Biederman, Charles Simonds, Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white film still of a stone rockface with a small stone shelter built into the rock on the left side.] -
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.] -
Alza Tu Voz, back porch, exhibition at Dykeman Farmhouse Museum, 2017 [A photo of the exterior of a building, with several colorful portrait paintings lying on the wooden porch. One has text stating "no te dejes oprimir." A large poster hangs on the door to the building, with the title "Alza tu Voz"] -
DUOX: DUOX4Larkin. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two sculptures installed in a gallery space featuring rectangular sheets of laminated, paper rectangles held together by metal rings. The sheets are suspended at their four corners by metal poles mounted in silver buckets.] -
[The facade of a cast-iron building with three double door entrances. Real estate listings are illuminated within the windows inside each door. In red tinted transoms above the doors are the letters N, R, O in eccentric white lettering.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr., Diverses Expériences par la Baguette, 2022. Plastic, copper, brass, divination wand, drawer, ceramic jug, solvent transfers, plywood, brass. 35 x 26.5 x 19.5 inches. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a drawer positioned vertically on plywood in the corner of a gallery space. In front of the drawer is a ceramic jug and several other obkects including a wand.] -
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Friends of Artists Space Annual Dinner, 2016. [A large room with numerous people seated at long, rectangular tables. Many are eating, talking, and drinking wine. Several waiters walk between the tables.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a fgure wearing a conical sheath of reflective one-way mirror film that covers their entire body. They squat down next to a viewer sitting in a wooden chair. The performer shines a bright light against their face, making their face visible from under the mirror film.] -
Still from Werner Schroeter, Maria Callas Portrait, 1968 [A black-and-white photo of a woman wearing a large black hat, holding her hand loosely to her neck, against a black background.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Numerous plastic bags of objects appear together on a white gallery wall.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A side view of a sculpture of a man leaning against a white column. He holds a book in his right hand. He is wearing a purple shirt, blue patterned shorts, and white sneakers.] -
Duncan Campbell: Make it new John. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two side-by-side magazine advertisements mounted on a white wall. On the left, a portrait-oriented multicolored image is titled, "One out of every 100 new business succeeds. Here's to those who take the odds." There is a short written blurb below. On the right, a landscape-oriented spread shows an image of a car with its doors open on the left page. On the right page, large text reads, "The Delorean. Live the dream." An additional image of a car and a single column of text is positioned to the right of this headline.]
