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Abasement #67. Performance documentation, January 15, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of three performers on stage. In the right foreground, a performer with medium length dark hair and glasses vocalizes into a microphone. Blurred in the left background are two more performers. The one standing closest to the vocal artist plays a tenor saxophone instrument while the musician behind him plays a guitar. The entire trio and interior is cast in a cobalt blue light emitted from a projector. ] -
We the People. Installation view, Artists Space. 1987 [A black and white photo of an exhibition space, four sculptures on pedestals line the room diagonally with a mural painting behind them.] -
Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A color image of a gallery space. In the foreground, a shovel sits upright on a pedestal. In the midground, a taxidermied griffon vulture is perched on top of concrete rubble. Next to the griffon vulture, another shovel sits upright on a pedestal. To the left side of the image, a shovel attached to a small child's chair is placed up against the back wall.] -
Underground: Jose Gabriel Fernandez. Installation view, Artists Space, 1991. [A long, cubic rectangle held by suspension wires on a weathered wooden floor. A small, white box rests within the rectangle.] -
Bonnie Rycheck. Elegantly Contained, 1986. [A black and white photograph of gray benches with black on top, the front one with legs the back one without. Tape appears on the top of the image.] -
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. The walls are painted with blue accents, and there is a checkerboard floor. Large, vibrant paintings of Black Queer figures hang on the walls. Blue neon lights run along the frame of the window in the corner.] -
Zilia Sánchez. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two white panels of canvas positioned together to form a square shape. Both canvases display an organic pink form. Parts of the canvas within the pink shapes stretch outwards to form protruding circular and ovular, knob-like shapes.] -
Anne Bray. Installation View of Man on First and Third, 1987. Slide and sound installation. [A black and white photograph of two projectors hanging central in a darkened gallery and projecting images onto two separate screens in the foreground with light coming in from the background] -
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James Biederman. Installation view, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, James Biederman, Charles Simonds, Artists Space, 1974. [A color installation of three black tiered sculptures, placed on a wooden floor in a gallery space.] -
Troy Brauntuch. Untitled, 1976. Silkscreen and offset lithograph. 50 x 40 inches. Photo: D. James Dee. [A photo of a 2D artwork consisting of a blank rectangular surface with the image of an classical sculpture bust in the lower left-hand corner.] -
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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.] -
Heji Shin, Camp Habibi II, 2013, C-print, 20 x 16 inches, Signed edition of 100, 5APs, Courtesy of the artist. [Detail view of a camel's head against a palm tree and blue sky.] -
Artists Space's two tote bags. [Two Artists Space tote bags lay in the autumn grass. One is black with a white architectural line drawing with the phrase "OPEN TO BEYOND" at center, the other is pink with a black bold graphic of an "A" inside an outlined circle.] -
Donna Nelson. Piles of Snow, 1983. [Figures appear on the street with street lamps and a car coming in the center back part of the image.] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. -
[An offwhite poster with black letters framed two bands of a cropped watercolor painting announces a sound poetry festival entitled "Chorus."] -
Crystal Z Campbell: Ode to the Underloved. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a video installation in the center of the floor of a gallery space. A walkway made of plywood runs along the edges of the room, around the projection. The projection depicts a negative film image that has been mirrored along the center. Objects are arranged on a blue background to create vaguely recognizable images.] -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 9, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [A figure stands behind a table on a stage. Across the room, red light and small fragmented pieces of white light can be seen.] -
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers are on stage, the performer on the left side plays a guitar, and the performer on the right plays a cello. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in blue light, created from projections of a geometric pattern.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of an ice block sitting on top of the keys of a reed organ. The reedorgan is covered in a sheet of clear plastic. A clock and instructions sit on a music stand behind the organ.] -
Peggy Ahwesh, Paranormal Intelligence (Part 2 of The Pittsburgh Trilogy), (1983). [A crowd of people seated in a dark room, facing a screen. On screen, there is an image of a person wearing a striped shirt, holding a towel around their neck.] -
Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A view of two vitrines, one in front of the other, displaying documents in front of a book case on the wall. Documents containing text are hung on the wall.] -
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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.] -
Shala Miller & Malcolm Peacock, with Amiri Baraka's Cellar Vigil. Installation view (Malcolm Peacock, How to address the full capacity of our will, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A gallery space with a wooden camper structure situated in the corner of two walls, to the left of the space. Through the open doorway can be seen a small ciruclar window and a shelf with various items placed on it.] -
New Red Order with Ashley Byler and Jeremy Pheiffer / Kate August and Enver Chakartash Urge 2 Merge, 2021 3 channel video, color 12 minutes (loop) Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a dark exhibition space with three video projections projected on to a wall.] -
Laura Cottingham & The Anita Pallenberg Story. Installation view, Artists Space, 2017. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Eight, framed, color photographs arranged into a grid on a white wall.] -
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Elephant Cemetery. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [Two slide projectors sit on a table, projecting small images onto perpendicular walls. On one wall, there is a paper lamp and three framed photographs: two black and white images of folded paper, and one color image.] -
Michael Brewster, An Acoustic Sculpture, A Clicker Drawing. View from Opening, April 2, 1977, Artists Space. [A black and white photograph of a person standing in a doorframe. On the left, a broom rests against the wall. A circular window behind a radiator is visible on the right. Buckets of paint and painting rollers are scattered across the floor.] -
Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 1993 – 2016. [A black and white image of a building. A black flag hangs that reads, "ARTISTS SPACE."] -
Visit to the exhibition Dawoud Bey: In This Here Place, Sean Kelly Gallery, Chelsea, 2021 -
Gwynn Murrill, Clam, laminated wood, 1974. From Don Wynn, Judy Pfaff, Gwynn Murrill, Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white photograph of a wooden clam sculpture.] -
Tony Vevers, c. 1976. Painting from Eleanor Magid, Tony Vevers, William White, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white photograph of an abstract painting with an ovular form in the top left corner and a line on the right.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view featuring various ephemera from Stop, c. 1970, c. 1973, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A floating glass display case holding a black and white image, and multiple booklets of text.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a large empty room bathed in a red light. Along one wall, a performer dressed in white stands against the wall, bending over and looking to their left. A bright white light shines from their hips and a sheath of crinkly, reflective one-way mirror film lays on the ground in front of them.] -
Metaphysical Visions. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [In the foreground of a white gallery space is a large sculpture made of a wooden box topped with a floral textile and wooden chairs. Another sculpture and painting are installed behind it.] -
Group Material: Primer (for Raymond Williams). Artists Space, 1982. [A somewhat indistinguishable image is on a wall above black letter that reads "teach" which is above an electrical outlet on a wall.] -
Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Two photographs are mounted on a white gallery wall.] -
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Model Modernisms. Installation view, Artists Space, 2005. [The corner of a gallery space. At the base of the corner, where both walls meet the floor, a small area of the wall has been removed and replaced with the materials from another building's wall, displayed in a cross-section. Several black and white, framed photo-collages hang on the wall to the right of the corner.] -
Gulf Labor action at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 29, 2014. Image courtesy Global Ultra Luxury Faction/Gulf Labor. [A photo looking down from the top of the Guggenheim Museum's atrium, showing people crowded around an unfurling banner.] -
Demonstrations outside Artists Space during the opening of Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, November 16, 1989. [A person holds a sign that reads "KEEP ART FREE!" in handpainted text.] -
Abasement #68. Performance documentation, February 12, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of three performers on stage. In the foreground, in the lower right corner a musician wearing headphones plays drums. To the left hand side in the midground, two bald performers look at one another. One of the performers wears a red robe and holds a microphone. The other performer wears a blue tunic and faces the performer in the red robe. Stage lights shine down on all three performers. ] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A photograph of an empty room, dimly lit with chairs in the background, where a projection is playing on the wall. The projection displays an image of the Hamdan vs. Rumsfield Supreme Court Case.] -
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Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [A figure facing a microphone looks upon a computer with audio software open.] -
_____, Louise Lawler, Adrian Piper & Cindy Sherman Have Agreed to Participate in an Exhibition Organized by Janelle Reiring at Artists Space, September 23 through October 28, 1978, Artists Space, 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 1978. [A white wall with the Artists Space logo affixed. Light bulbs are affixed to the edge of the wall. In the background a piece hangs on the wall.] -
Jill Mulleady, A Thought That Doesn't Change Remains a Stupid Lie, 4, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of an oil painting of a flower arrangment, placed in a glass jar on a black table. The flowers are dying and falling over the sides of the jar, which holds a shallow amount of yellowed water.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure in a red suit preforming in front of a seated audience. The figure sits at a tanker desk with a TV monitor placed on top of it. They have papers taped and placed over their face.] -
[19 thinly outlined boxes arranged in columns of decreasing height on a black background. Each box contains a glowing, symmetrical, orange and purple geometric shape of varying complexity. In each box's lower right corner, white text lists three coordinates. There is a gradient key from purple through orange and yellow to white, with a minus sign at one end and a plus sign at the other, and above that, a complex mathematical formula. In the upper righthand corner, white text reads, "Betsy Fagin and Alan Felsenthal" and "sat, 5/23 / 5pm nyc time / zoom id: 378 232 567."] -
[A person walking down a city street, speaking into a megaphone. Behind her are several cars and a small crowd of onlookers.] -
Abasement #75. Performance documentation, February 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer standing up playing the violin. They are standing in front of a mic stand with their eyes closed. A drum kit is barely visible in the right corner of the image. The wall in the background is tinted with green and blue lights.] -
[A red background with white text which reads: "BDS IS THE FLOOR NOT THE CEILING", followed by the Decolonize This Place Logo.] -
City-As-School students installing photo wall, 2019. [Two students holding up a grid of photos on a white background.] -
Union Gaucha Productions Still from Totloop , 2003 16mm film (silent, color), 4 min 49 sec Collaboration with Fabio Kacero Courtesy of Union Gaucha Productions [An overexposed image of a person looking at the camera, their face partially obscured by the exposure.] -
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Mark Morrisroe: From This Moment On. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A white wall with twenty-four framed photograms arranged in an eight by three rectangle.] -
Photographic work by David Kulik, Frank Majore, Kevin Noble, Ken Pelka, Pat Place, Rene Santos, and Brian Well. Announcement card, work by Pat Place, Artists Space, 1980. [A black and white image of a toy alligator holding a medicine bottle, surrounded by miscellaneous objects.] -
Apartment Show: If the dogs are barking. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [A sculpture consisting of a large, leaning metal pole installed in a gallery space in front of a wall of framed photographs, drawings, and other two-dimensional works. The pole is braced at the floor and leans to the left. Several metal clamps are attached to the bottom portion of the pole, near where it meets the floor. A stack of white papers is displayed on the ground in front of the sculpture.] -
Gerome Kamrowski. Paintings on the Surface of a Dome, 1960. [A black and white photograph of a painted, sculpted object appears hanging above a person's head in a dark space.] -
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Abasement #74. Performance documentation, December 2nd, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A crowd sitting down watching a performer on stage leaning over a table with electronic instruments, holding a mic close to their mouth. The audience is bathed in red light, and the wall behind the performer is covered with multicolored abstract projections. ] -
P.S. 140 students painting sound, 2019 [An image of several students paitning with watercolors, each on their own desk] -
Book cover for The Stagnant Society by Michael Shanks. Design by Richard Hollis. Published by Penguin Books, London, 1961. Courtesy Richard Hollis [A red background, half the Union Jack poisitoned behind sillhouette's of five men and a car, and text that reads, "The Stagnant Society, Michael Shanks."] -
LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [On the left wall of the gallery space sits of shelf containing a display case of photographs and jars. In the corner of the walls sits a televion on the floor playing a video. On the right wall is a painting vertically reading "NIGHTMARE" with skulls, stars, and abstracted forms superimposed on top. To the right of this is a framed landscape. A painted ceramic sits on a table in the foreground.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A color photograph of an arepa placed on a purple tablecloth.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a figure sitting behind a reed organ covered in a sheet of clear plastic. A clock sits on a music stannd with instructions behind the organ. The figure positions their hands on a large block of ice that sits on top of the keys of the organ.] -
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Avery Singer, The Studio Visit, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York/Rome and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin. [Abstract painting of two people sitting at a table, having a conversation.] -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, The Shape Up, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Company Gallery, New York. [A painting in color of two Black Queer people in a red interior setting. One of them, wearing gray underpants, gazes out of the picture plane, while another profile of their head turned to the right is superimposed. The barber on their right is shaping the seated person’s hair with clippers. The rounded edge of a tabletop with a mirror, comb, and shears atop of it is pictured to the left of the image. A single window depicting snowfall at night can be seen behind the two Black Queer figures.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #3. Performance documentation, March 16, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a figure reading into a microphone, sitting behind a music stand.] -
Tiffany Sia, The Bastard Scroll (detail view), 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A photograph of a long sheet of dot matrix paper with text on a black table.] -
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.] -
Tom of Finland, Untitled, 1987. Graphite on paper. Courtesy Tom of Finland Foundation. [A naked man lays across the frame, resting on his elbows reading a book. Another man sits in between his open legs, reading a book that is resting on his glutes.] -
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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.] -
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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Joey Yearous-Algozin and Filip Marinovich. Saturday, April 24, 2021, Artists Space. [Multicolored circles, torii (donut shapes), and a cylinder are on a yellow-orange gradient background. The image is overlaid with the text, "artists space & the segue reading series / merrily invite you to an online reading by / Joey Yearous-Algozin / and / Filip Marinovich / saturday 4.24.21 5pm eastern / $5 suggested it'll be terrific / zoom id: 830 2698 4031] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of a music score and handwritten lyrics on a music stand, with a cello bow.] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [Various figures in glittery costumes pose in front of a circus backdrop, holding out open fans.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of four individuals crowded together as they look at something on a cellphone. Two individuals in the group are seated at a dinner table, where other guests are also engaged in conversation. A dimly lit and elegant venue full of other individuals can be seen in the background.] -
Pamela Jenrette. Lavalava, 1974. From Scott Burton, Pamela Jenrette, Artists Space,1975. [A black and white photograph of a textured wall with white and grey splotches.] -
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Gianfranco Gorgoni, André Cadere, 1976. Courtesy Galleria Minini. [A black and white photo of a man standing on a cobblestone street in New York, with the Twin Towers in the background.] -
ART CLUB2000 Gli Avvoltoi (The Vultures), detail, 1995 Vinyl paint and newsprint flyer Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up of a mural displaying cartoon vultures resting on black scaffolding. Underneath the mural sits a pile of newsprint flyers.] -
Carolyn Lazard: Two-way. Installation view (Vital, 2025; Borne, 2025), Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Greg Carideo. [A darkened hallway with dark blue walls and light blue linoleum tiling leads into an open gallery space with dark blue carpeting. On the left sits a bench, which faces a large wall projection on the right. The projection depicts a black patient in a blue hospital gown sitting in a chair. The projection is partially obscured by a wall.] -
Paper Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A white plinth in a white room is seen through a rectagular cutout window. There is a small object on the plinth, lit from above by a square, fluorescent light.] -
Arabic Cover of the catalogue for The International Art Exhibition for Palestine. Beirut, 1978. published by the PLO Unified Information Office [A white, square, cover with arabic text and a rainbow color grid.] -
[White text overlays a color-scheme grid background. The text reads: “Nov 11 / Dior J. Stephens / Dawn Lundy Martin." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
Still from video interview with Benjamin Buchloh about the work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, conducted by Dean Inkster and Sébastien Pluot, 2010. [A book with blank pages is sitting open on a white table, seen from above. A person's right hand rests on the table next to the book, while the left is lifted in gesture.] -
Joel Katz, History Lessons, 1990. Installation view, Artists Space, 1990. [A photograph, taken from above, of rows of school desks facing a television with a map behind it.] -
Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A grid of photographs displaying candid portraiture is arranged in a white frame.] -
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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S*an D. Henry Smith in Constantina Zavitsanos’ Entropy (2023), a set of three performances (on-site and online) for If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be a Part of Your Revolution. Performers and co-creators of the score: Angelo Custódio and Pedro Matias, S*an D. Henry-Smith and Geo Wyex. Photo: Prins de Vos [Photograph of a performer, standing next to a table covered in a black cloth. The background is bathed in purple light. A white spotlight shines on the table, highlighting the performer's hands as they pour liquid from one teacup into another teacup held below.] -
Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An angled view of a paneled wall displaying a long line of framed photographs in an exhibition space. A white mannequin wearing a blue shirt stands to the right of the wall. A large red carpet covers the ground in the bottom right portion of the image.] -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 9, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [A figure wearing a suit plays guitar, their feet dangling over a pedal.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A sculpture of a man holding a book is leaning against a column in an empty, open room. He is wearing a purple shirt, patterned blue shorts, and is crossing his legs, wearing white sneakers.] -
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Zilia Sánchez. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two half-circle canvases, positioned together to create a full circular shape, displayed on a light mauve wall. The canvases are filled with neutral blue and pale pink colors as well as sweeping, black line illustrations. At the center of the composition, the canvases stretch outward in mirrored c-curve shapes.] -
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.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery space. On the left wall series of photographs hang, and vitrines containing musical scores. Various musical instruments and audio devices are placed around the middle of the room, and various television monitors are placed along the sides of the room..] -
[Six books in different colors fanned out. Each book's cover has a solid color with black text that spells out a person's name.] -
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New Red Order Beginning of the End of the Trail, detail, 2021 Wet-plate collodion glass negatives with LED lightboxes, pipes, and extension cords. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of photograph negatives with LED lightboxes hanging off a wall.] -
Ana Vieira-Gerbracht, Untitled, 2021, digital photography -
[A slightly weathered sepia photograph of a sculpture of a white cup and saucer. Printed on the cup is the text "HOT COFFEE." The sculpture is set in a desert landscape with low brush plants and brown hills in the background.] -
Lines of Loss. Installation view, Artists Space, 1997. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [Black and green sans-serif text decorating a white gallery wall. Large, green text stacked vertically reads, "lines of loss." Smaller, black text superimposed over each of the green lettered words reads, "gabriel kuri damian ortega manuel rocha mauricio rocha guillermo santamarina." A small wall label below the text notes the exhibition's sponsors.] -
Attention Line. Installation view (various ephemera surrounding the works of Vaginal Davis, c. 1990s), Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [Various posters, ephemera, and other printed matter hang on a wall with a light pink background.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a dimly lit basement, a figure holding a video camera with a rig on their shoulder takes footage of the back wall, which has blue and purple light projected onto it.] -
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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.] -
Union Gaucha Productions in collaboration with Fabio Kacero. Still from Totloop, 2003. 16mm film (silent, color), 4 min 49 sec. Courtesy of Union Gaucha Productions. [A still from Totloop, set during the twilight, featuring an empty model house being lit on fire, with a small tree visible to its left.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [Two glass display cases holding ephemera sit on either side of a tv monitor, on the wall are four black and white contact sheets.] -
_____, Louise Lawler, Adrian Piper & Cindy Sherman Have Agreed to Participate in an Exhibition Organized by Janelle Reiring at Artists Space, September 23 through October 28, 1978, Artists Space, 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 1978. [Black text affixed to a white wall reads: "Christopher D'Arcangelo / Louise Lawler / Adrian Piper / Cindy Sherman."] -
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[Black text on a light green background. The text reads: “May 23 / Amanda Deutch / Brandon Downing.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Yates McKee, Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition (New York: Verso Books, 2017); edited by Nina Felshin, But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism (Toronto: Bay Press, 1995). [A collage of images including book covers, "Strike Art," and "But is it Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism," displayed alongside images of protestors holding up banners reading "Decolonize This Place" and a large banner draped across a clocktower that reads, "Free Education to All."] -
Flipside. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [Two white walls meeting in a corner. The wall on the right has three large black and white photographs of people on winter streets with their small dogs. The wall on the left features a canvas covered in a red, green, and peach colored plaid pattern.] -
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[Green fluorescent strips arranged in gridded, triangle-shaped sections.] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A rectangle of gold foil laying flat on a wooden floor. Light descending from a nearby window illuminates the foil.] -
Installation view at Kaiserstraße 31A, Düsseldorf May 11, 1963 Courtesy Archiv Kuttner, Erkrath Photo: Manfred Kuttner [A black and white image of the back of a chair in front of a man in front of a train car, in which a man exits the door.] -
New Red Order Give it Back, detail, 2020 Acrylic LED displays with cut vinyl, water cooler, poster, couch, desk, chairs, magazine rack, The New Red Times Magazine, and three televisions. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up image of three tv monitors on a wall with vinyl lettering that reads "New Red Order", in the right corner is a water cooler.] -
Nandi Loaf, 的1-9, 2025. Reclaimed electrical infrastructure, branded site-specific hardware, standardized socket covers, branded overlays. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A brass outlet plug against a wooden floor has a cable plugged into one socket, and the other socket is covered by a flat brass circle with the text "8...Blitze(nn)" engraved on it.] -
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Leaflet cover for Extended Definitions, Artists Space, 1989. [A black and white close-up photograph of an eye. Text at the top reads, "Extended Definitions: Video Experiments in Perception." Text at the bottom reads, "September 28-November 4, Artists Space."] -
[Pink cursive text at an ascending angle which reads "Undoolay," with horizontal green text underneath that reads "Lucas Duwenhogger."] -
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Moroharu Jonouchi, Shelter Plan, 1964 [Black-and-white image of a figure in black standing straight against a wall. On either side of them are life-size printed images of a naked figure from behind.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Julian Louis Phillips and LA Warman. February 26, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a blue background. The top left corner reads: Julian Louis Phillips / LA Warman. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, February 26, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."] -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a gallery space divided by two walls, with columns running down the middle. There are multple paintings and drawings hanging on the walls. In the center of the back room, a black-and-white checkered floor. To the right, an A-frame sign with the words "Barber Shop." Another space, on the right, is illuminated with blue light.] -
Abstraction in Process. Installation view, Artists Space, March 26, 1987 - May 2, 1987. [On the right abstract paintings on rectangular wooden blocks, a column bisects the frame centrally and painted wood constructions are visible on the walls in the background in a white-walled gallery setting.] -
Abasement #83. Performance documentation, January 5th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a wooden wind instrument on stage. Connected by plastic tubing and wooden rods, the instrument stands higher than the seated performer. ] -
Vaginal Davis, The White to be Angry, 1999, color video converted to digital. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a gallery space with walls painted red and a projection with speakers in front of the right-facing wall.] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Several blank, white walls in a large gallery space with wooden flooring. An opening emerges at the corner of two intersecting walls at the image's center, leading into a dark space. Rows of windows line the right wall of the gallery.] -
Sheida Soleimani, Dukhan Field, Qatar, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Denny Dimin Gallery [A color photograph of a performance piece showing a nude person lying face-down and completely covered in green paint. They are laying on a large set of green, patterned, and painted paper with a soccer ball and glass of white liquid near their body.] -
Pictures. Opening Reception, Artists Space, September 23, 1977. Photo: D. James Dee. [A black and white photograph of a crowded gallery space. In the background, several large black and white wall hangings are visible.] -
Audio Works. Installation view, Artists Space, 1978. [A room with a large set of drawers set against the wall. Above the drawers are the words "Audio Works Archive / Please Ask At The Front Desk To Have The Drawers Opened." On the right wall hang several papers and print-outs.] -
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LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view (Carolyn Castaño, The Female Report, 2011; D’Talentz, The Secret Garden, 2020), Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Two televisons sit on the wall, bisected with hung grocery dividers. The television on the left displays a video of a news anchor with the bottom text "A descendant of Evita." The television on the right displays a video of four squares with people surrounded in foliage. These squares are superimposed on a backdrop of more foliage.] -
Lukas Duwenhögger: Undoolay. Installation view, Artists Space, 2016. Photo credit: Jean Vong. [An off-white curtain hangs from a wooden four-poster bed frame. One side of the curtain is partially open, revealing a patterned chaise lounge and a framed image on a blue chain.] -
Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown, Jr.), portrait by Ting Ding, 2019, Shirt & Harness by HECHA / 做. [A man in t-shirt and fabric harness crouching, face slightly obscured behind metal pipes, wearing a baseball cap saying "MAKE TECHNO BLACK AGAIN"] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A figure in overalls reaches up to pin a dark tarp along the length of a wall. Behind them, another figure adjusts a camera on a tripod.] -
Filler Episode in New York, no. 2, Ricky Luckey, Honorable mention -
The columns held us up. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A white cloth banner hangs vertically from the ceiling, with text which reads "KARA-KUM, area 350000, disposed in Middle Asia." Below the text are drawings resembling Turkish architecture. To the right of the banner, a slide projector sits on a short wooden bench, projecting a small image onto a white wall.] -
Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two video monitors installed on a freestanding wall in an exhibition space. A woman stands in front of the leftmost monitor, which displays a bright, red image. A larger monitor to the right displays a cool-toned scene of an ocean. White text superimposed over the image reads, "Death Mask III."] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view (Pathways of Infinite Possibilities: Yara, 2017; Yara Training Bag, c. 1990), Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation photograph of a gallery with two sculptures visible. The sculpture closer to the camera features an anatomical sculpture of a human body and hand, several wires, and a small water wheel. In the background, a punching bag and other boxing equipment are suspended from a rectangular wooden frame.] -
[A posterr with the silhouette of a man in the middle, dressed like a cowboy. Before him appear blue scan-lines, as if on a television set, which are boxed off into several rectangles.] -
We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [Painting of figures with Native American headdresses on a white gallery wall with a sculpture appearing in front of it.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of three figures dressed in white, embracing each other as they run across an empty basement.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure to the right stands on stage and performs in front of an audience, shown to the left.] -
Nandi Loaf, Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, ricardo nagaoka, Sydney Schrader. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [A twinkling black Christmas tree stands in the foreground as the gallery walls recede. A few paintings hang on the more distant walls. ] -
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Installation view at Kaiserstraße 31A, Düsseldorf May 11, 1963 Courtesy Archiv Kuttner, Erkrath Photo: Manfred Kuttner [A black and white image of a man looking at documents through a window on a street sidewalk. Behind him, a women in a hat looks at him. People are present walking on the street surrounding them.] -
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Abasement #66. Performance documentation, October 9, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A color image of two figures performing on a stage. Various electronic equipment, such as speakers, cables, an monitors surround the performers. One of the figures is playing the saxophone. The other one is playing the guitar and has their eyes closed. An image of the figure playing the saxophone is projected onto the back wall. In the background, a row of audience members sit looking towards the performers.] -
Not yet titled, 2019
Clay, glaze, mixed media
12 x 13 x 5 inches (variable)
$5,000
[A brown object stands on a white base. On the flat surface of the object, an onion and a lemon are connected by a red and orange wire. In the base of the object, a processing chip is embedded.] -
Bill Gunn and Duane Jones on the set of Ganja & Hess. Image courtesy Tom Cummings. [A black-and-white photograph of a group of men shooting a scene on an outdoor film set. They are surrounded by trees and grass.] -
[Black text on a light green background. The text reads: “May 16 / Patricio Ferrari / Stella Santamaría.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Abasement #81. Performance documentation, October 20th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a modified string instrument on stage. ] -
Replica of a Lost Original. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A gray television sits on a rectangular wooden board. There is a mass of wires next to it that snakes towards a pile of nearby photographs.] -
Ed. Mario Pfeifer, A Formal Film In Nine Episodes, Prologue and Epilogue – A Critical Reader (Spector Books, 2013). [A white book cover with black text in English and Hindi.] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view (Chair, 1989; Untitled drawings, 2020), Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 8, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation photograph of a gallery space, a painted wooden chair with an asymmetrical back is visible in the foreground. In the left background, two framed drawings hang from the wall.] -
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.] -
Jerry Beck, Cryptic Cross, 1985. [A sculpted pedestal with a black object on it is visible on a wooden floor below a sculpted multilayered cross hanging on a white gallery wall. Numbers are visible above the image.] -
Ed Bereal, Miss America: Manufacturing Consent: Upside Down and Backwards, 2000-2014, mixed media and found objects, dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a large assemblage sculpture with various posed and costumed mannequins.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Filip Wolak [A color photograph of a figure standing in an orange-lit space filled with various audio equipment and a stereo player. They lean down to press adjust a dial on an audio mixer.] -
virgil b/g taylor, Minor Publics. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation photograph of a gallery space bisected by a row of dark metal columns. Two wooden chairs are placed near a piece of semi-transparent grey and blue fabric partially hung from a grey metal scaffold. A large piece of grey and yellow vinyl hangs from the wall on the right.] -
Ralston Farina: Time // Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Three large display cases exhibit various objects. The case most within sight displays drawings, posters, photogrpahs, newspaper clippings, and a small sculpture.]
