aJuan Araujo Edgar Arceneaux Charles Avery bLarry Bell Erick Beltran Elisheva Biernoff Milena Bonilla Andrea Bowers Maria Bussman Luke Butler cStéphane Calais Johanna Calle Bruce Conner Mike Cooter fAna Teresa Fernandez gCharles Gaines Anthony Goicolea Mark Grotjahn hKarl Haendel Fabrice Hyber lDr. Lakra mAnthony McCall Julio Morales John Morris oRoman Ondak pChloe Piene rWill Rogan t Taroop & Glabel vAdrian Villar Rojas
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Anthony McCall Fire Cycles III (Subcycle 10) 1974 This score is a graphic record of the detailed choreography of one of Anthony McCall's Landscape for Fire performances. These took place between 1972-74 in the UK at the Museum of Modern... Larry Bell VFGY9 1979 Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight. The blocks resemble a stone carving, or slabs of wood shaped into a simple organic... Charles Gaines Shadows V, Set of 3 1980 Bruce Conner Untitled Inkblot Drawing (CT-1491) 1995 John Morris Untitled 2002 Untitled was part of the 2002 exhibition “Drawings for the Austrian School” held at the D’Amelio Terras gallery in New York. For this occasion, Morris created a language of his own... Mark Grotjahn Untitled (Butterfly) 2002 This particular drawing, like many of Grotjahn’s works, presents a decentered single-point perspective. Unlike the traditional vanishing point, the rays here emanate from the surface’s middle and... Johanna Calle Suburbia 1, Espinca bifida #3, Laconista7 2003, 2008 Calle’s drawings all inhabit received forms but alter them to call attention to specific qualities. A newspaper is both reproduced and modified to call attention to the newspaper as a... Fabrice Hyber Valz 2003 Drawing, which is the essential embodiment of Fabrice Hyber’s artistic thinking, is at the origin of all his works. The artist uses accumulation, hybridization and mutation to create constant... Roman Ondak Slowed-down Journey 2003 As the caption purposely admits, these drawings were made by friends of Ondák's at home in Slovakia asked to interpret places he has journeyed to. The description of the blond artist wearing the... Dr. Lakra Cortes y la malinche 2005 Like many of Dr. Lakra’s works, Cortes y la malinche is a drawing done on a found vintage magazine page. The text at the bottom of the page, “reclinandose inocentemente sobre el regazo de Hernan-... Chloe Piene Armless 2005 The figure in Armless tapers away. Muscular legs turned upright spin down into a disintegrating torso. Lines, that in another drawing would sketch out contours and volume, here seem to be... Maria Bussman Search for the origin of the work of art or on the way to Heidegger’s cabin 2005 The drawing “Heidegger’s Cabin” (2005) is inspired by Martin Heidegger's essay, “The Origin of the Work of Art." During the artist’s stay in a high alpine area, near a lake reservoir, Bussmann... Taroop & Glabel Condensé 2005 Edgar Arceneaux Untitled (Wheelchair drawing) 2006 Untitled (Wheelchair Drawing) is a ten-foot photo transfer of the image of a wheelchair with burning embers in its seat. In 2006, it was included in the exhibition, Alchemy of Comedy…... Juan Araujo Libro Ponti II 2006 Many of Araujo’s works depict reproductions and Libro Ponti II is a recreation of a book on Italian architect Gio Ponti. Ponti designed the Villa Planchart a private, modernist house in... Julio Cesar Morales Undocumented Intervention 2006 Julio Cesar Morales’s watercolor drawings, Undocumented Intervention, show a variety of surprising hiding places assumed by people trying to cross into the United States without... Mike Cooter Forensic Poster 2006, 2011 Forensic Poster was first realized in 2006 and reactivated in 2011; its making consisted of the artist visiting the London School of Criminology and corresponding with the interim... Stéphane Calais L’herbier (petit Trianon) 2007 L'herbier (petit Trianon) consists of four "realistic" drawings of plants, screenprinted on transparent PVC. Relying on drawing as a study, this work resembles many sketchbook drawings of... Will Rogan Silencer #16 & #17 2010, 2007 MUM, the acronym used to title a series of Rogan’s small interventions on found magazines, stands for “Magic Unity Might,” the name of a vintage trade magic publication. In the series,... Anthony Goicolea Related 3a 2008 Goicolea has made drawings based on a family album of relations that he did not know but who in one way or another contributed to his history and to the predicament in which he now finds himself... Johanna Calle Suburbia 1, Espinca bifida #3, Laconista7 2003, 2008 Calle’s drawings all inhabit received forms but alter them to call attention to specific qualities. A newspaper is both reproduced and modified to call attention to the newspaper as a... Luke Butler Captain X 2008 In Captain X, Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner, is limply draped over a large boulder in what looks like a hostile alien environment. However, Kirk’s passive pose doesn... Milena Bonilla Stone Deaf 2009 Elisheva Biernoff Last Postcards 2009 Last Postcards is a series of three small double-sided paintings on plywood in which Biernoff imagines the last communications from explorers lost in the wilderness. Biernoff’s choice of... Adrian Villar Rojas Las Mariposas Eternas (de la Serie) 2010 The two drawings in the Kadist Collection are part of a larger series entitled Las Mariposas Eternas (The Eternal Butterflies). They are studies for two large sculptures that explore the role of... Andrea Bowers Study from May Day March, Los Angeles 2010 (Immigration Reform Now) and We Are Immigrants Not Terrorists 2010 The small drawings that comprise Study from May Day March, Los Angeles 2010 (Immigration Reform Now) and We Are Immigrants Not Terrorists are based on photographs taken at a... Erick Beltran The individual is a mirage 2010 Will Rogan Silencer #16 & #17 2010, 2007 MUM, the acronym used to title a series of Rogan’s small interventions on found magazines, stands for “Magic Unity Might,” the name of a vintage trade magic publication. In the series,... Karl Haendel Knight #6 2011 Haendel’s series, Knights, is a set of impeccably drafted, nine-foot-tall, pencil drawings of full suits of armor. The series riffs on previous investigations, including Haendel’s... Ana Teresa Fernandez Borrando la Frontera 2011 Mike Cooter Forensic Poster 2006, 2011 Forensic Poster was first realized in 2006 and reactivated in 2011; its making consisted of the artist visiting the London School of Criminology and corresponding with the interim... Charles Avery Untitled (Map) 2011 Charles Avery Untitled (Waiters dancing with Itinerants, Onomatopoeia) 2012 Since 2005, Charles Avery has devoted his practice to the perpetual description of a fictional island. Replete with its own population and constantly shifting topography, Avery’s intricately...
Adrian Villar Rojas From the series “Las Mariposas Eternas" 2010 The two drawings in the Kadist Collection are part of a larger series entitled Las Mariposas Eternas (The Eternal Butterflies). They are studies for two large sculptures that explore the role of monuments and emblems in the configuration of Latin... Robert Therrien Untitled (Blue Chapel) 1985 In No Title (Blue Chapel) Therrien has reduced the image of a chapel to a polygon. The object and its ground both glow, but the chapel-shape is crisp and simple, reminiscent of a piece of cut paper. Like many of Therrien’s early pieces, this... Mark Soo That's That's Alright Alright Mama Mama 2008 The two large-scale stereoscopic photographs in That’s That’s Alright Alright Mama Mama depict a recreation of Elvis Presley’s recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee. This study in doubles is underscored by its title, which repeats and doubles Elvis... Claire Fontaine Foreigners Everywhere (Italian) 2006 John Kelsey: Claire Fontaine's practice seems to revolve around the word « foreigner »... could you say something about this concept, if indeed it is one, and how it informs (infects) your activities and tactics? Claire Fontaine: The series of neon... Ryan Gander Travelogue lecture with missing content 2001 This work is meditative and fragile. These abstract forms are projected slides belonging to another lecture, Travelogue, where the images have been removed. What is left is the hole of the frame of the slide that light draws upon and projects on the... Zhou Tao South Stone 2011 For over five months, Zhou situated himself in an underdeveloped village surrounded by the high skyscrapers of Guangzhou to produce South Stone. Interweaving footage of a village’s landscape, residents, and animals with his seemingly absurd... Danh Vo Good Life 2007 Good life (2007) is an installation displaying letters, documents, photographs and objects from a man named Joseph Carrier, and appropriated by artist Danh Vo. The installation features a series of small square vitrines, inset, dark and... Matthew Darbyshire Untitled: Furniture Island No. 3 2009 In Kan’s four-channel video Island, a series of objects like nail clippers, hairbrush, toothpaste, and house decorations are shot in close-up. These highly polished and aestheticized images, create a poetic visual flow. However, in front of each... Eleanor Antin 100 Boots 1973, 1971 Comprised of fifty-one photographic postcards, Antin’s 100 Boots is an epic visual narrative in which 100 black rubber boots stand in for a fictional “hero” making a “trip” from California to New York City. Over two-and-a-half years, Antin... Gabriel Kuri Self Portrait as Symmetric Retention and flow Chart 2012 Bani Abidi Karachi Series 1 (Chandra Acarya, 7:50pm, 30 August 2008, Ramadan, Karachi) 2008 The staged images were captured against the backdrop of the city’s empty streets at sundown during the holy month of Ramadan. During the time, the Muslims fast and retreat indoor, leaving the city in an eerily atmosphere. Through portraying ordinary... Benoît Maire Le réel est l'impasse de la formalisation ; la formalisation est le lieu de passe-en-force du réel 2006 The piece consists of sculpture of 10 elements, among them: a globe, a picture of a gorilla, a chair, scrabble letters, 3 glasses of black ink, a book whose title is illuminated by the beam of a 8mm projector, a pair of boots, etc. The display is a... John Baldessari One Must 1997 In One Must, an image of a pair of scissors, accompanied by the words of work’s title, poses an ominous question about the relationship between the image and the text. The otherwise banal scissors become suggestively violent in relation to the text... Michael Craig-Martin Untitled (violet) 2005 Jeffry Mitchell Man and Pet 2012 In Man and Pet (2012), two benign ceramic figures smile sweetly upward. The man wraps his small companion in a hug, his arms extending in round arcs all the way to his feet. Though the characters’ expressions are strikingly similar— suggestive of... Eric Baudelaire The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images. 2011 In a society saturated by images, Eric Baudelaire is interested in political events that have not found their representation. For the film The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images, Baudelaire conducted... Brian Jungen Subject, Silver, Prism 2011 There are several elements to Subject, Silver, Prism. Silver ink is applied to blocks of black foam. A simple stand, reminiscent of cheap furniture, supports a drum constructed from deer hide stretched over plastic cooking bowls and held taut by the... Charles Avery Untitled (Map), (2011) Charles Avery has been constructing a narrative in his work since 2004. Between fantasy and reality, The Islanders is a very particular universe he has created in which to gather his disparate ideas. His practice primarily involves drawing,... Ciprian Muresan Untitled (Monks) 2011 Ciprian Mureşan asked a group of protagonists to wear a monk's robe and copy a certain number of artworks and texts from exhibition catalogues. Here it is no longer the Bible that is reproduced but works by Malevich, Mondrian, Beuys, Duchamp. These... Chadwick Rantanen Telescopic Pole (Tennis Balls Red) and (Tennis Balls) 2010 Telescopic Pole is an adjustable telescopic pole that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and is held up by its own internal pressure. The ends, protected by two, cut-open tennis balls, recall the legs of a walker. For Rantanen’s second solo...
