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Jeffrey Vallance Rocket 1978 Vallance’s Rocket is a vibrant picture in which masses of color and collage coalesce into a central vehicle, yet the whole surface seems lit with the roar of space travel. This varied use... Edward Kienholz Untitled (San Francisco) 1984 Untitled (San Francisco) was made in Idaho in 1984 and was facetiously dedicated to Henry Hopkins, the then director of the San Francisco Museum of Art who added “modern” to its name.... John Baldessari Person with Pillow: Desire, Lust, Fate 1991 The voids in Baldessari’s painted photographs are simultaneously positive and negative spaces, both additive and subtractive. In Person with Pillow: Desire, Lust, Fate, a woman’s facial... Dinh Q. Lê Untitled (from the Hill of Poisonous Tree Series) 2008 Mungo Thomson The White Album 2008 The White Album (2008) presents a compilation of one hundred issues of Artforum magazine released between 1970 and 1979. As with Will Rogan’s MUM series, also... Mario Ybarra Jr. Ammo Bunker 2009 Ammo Bunker (2009) is a multipart installation that includes large-scale wall prints and an architectural model. The work takes as its departure point the history of Wilmington, Ybarra’s... Jedediah Caesar Untitled 2009 For Untitled, Caesar encased recycled objects such as scraps of plywood, paper or cloth in resin and then cut and reassembled the pieces into abstract forms. This technical rework allows... Barry McGee Untitled 2010 McGee’s Untitled is a collection of roughly fifty, framed photographs, paintings, and text pieces clustered together in corner. Its tiled effect can perhaps be seen as a vertical Carl... 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... Alicia McCarthy Untitled (Colors) and Untitled (Ghost) 2010 A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (Colors) and Untitled (Ghost) are representative of McCarthy’s work. Upon first encounter, her... Alicia McCarthy Untitled (The way in is the way out) 2010 A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (the way in is the way out) is representative of McCarthy’s work. Upon first encounter, her abstract colorful... Jompet Kuswidananto Third Realm Venice Series #2 2011 Tony Oursler Absentia 2012 Adrian Villar Rojas Untitled 2012 Based on historical prophecies and fantasy, he creates apocalyptic scenarios that envision an enigmatic world plagued by social, political and environmental upheaval. Untitled (2012) is...
Raymond Pettibon Mushroom Cloud 2000 The five works included in the Kadist Collection are representative of Pettibon’s complex drawings which are much more narrative than comics or cartoon. The images allude to recurring topics, such as the superhero (present both in Untitled Superman... Omer Fast De Grote Boodschap 2007 This work is based on a temporal loop in which the stories of several duets coexist and interfere with each other. The narrative articulates itself around four key moments or four neighboring apartments that the viewer discovers progressively: an... Sharon Lockhart Stanley "Tom" Durrell, Tinsmith 2008 Lockhart’s film Lunch Break investigates the present state of American labor, through a close look at the everyday life of the workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard—a private sector of the U.S. naval shipbuilding company—in Maine. Stanley “Tom”... Lynn Hershman Leeson !Women Art Revolution 2010 Hershman Leeson’s documentary, Women Art Revolution (W.A.R.) draws from hundreds of hours of intimate interviews with her contemporaries—visionary artists, historians, curators and critics—who recount their fight to break down the barriers facing... 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... LaToya Ruby Frazier Campaign for Braddock Hospital 2011 LaToya Ruby Frazier is an artist and a militant; her photos combine intimate views of her relation with her parents and grandparents with the history of the Afro-American community of Braddock, Pennsylvania, where she grew up and where her family... John Menick Starring Sigmund Freud 2012 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... Heman Chong The Book Cover series (2009 -2012) 2009 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... Vidya Gastaldon Floating Mountain (Mt Hemo) 2011 Gastaldon has made a number of soft sculptures using materials associated with knitting and sewing that have alternately fetishistic, nightmarish or contemplative qualities. Floating Mountain is one of a group of works made from wool that overtly... John Gutmann From the North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco and Nob Hill San Francisco 1947, 1938 Gutmann’s photographs Untitled Nob Hill and From the North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge are some of the oldest pieces in the Kadist Collection and serve as historical anchors for many of the more recent works. Distinctly modernist in style, the... Shahzia Sikander The Last Post 2010 The Last Post was inspired by Sikander’s ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China. In this animation, layers of images, abstract forms, meaning, and metaphorical associations slowly unfold... Anthony Goicolea Related 3b 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 as a Cuban in America. He then mounted the drawings on... Shilpa Gupta Untitled (Sword) 2009 Dennis Adams Make Down 2004 The video Make down is a 34 minute sequence shot that shows the artist removing make-up in front of a mirror. The peculiarity of the scene consists in two symbolic details: first, the make-up itself, covering his face, hair and torso - a thick kaki... Jordan Kantor Eclipse 2009 Eclipse is a series of screenprints from Kantor’s larger vitrine installation that included reworkings of a single image of a small group viewing an eclipse through shielding cut-outs. Printed on a clear surface, the work plays with ideas of... Tala Madani Wall Painting 2008 Presumably this painting, as others by Madani, takes its source from either one of the highly controversial photographs taken by American soldiers of their tortured prisoners in Abu Ghraib in 2006 or some such imagery of human degradation (from... Deimantas Narkevicius The Dud Effect 2008 The Dud Effect is a film that revisits the fear of nuclear attacks during the Cold War by staging the firing of a R-14 missile by a solitary soldier on the site of a real Soviet launch base installed in Lithuania. For this film, Deimantas... Ian Wallace Study for my Heroes in the Street (Stan) 1986, 1992 Wallace says of his Heroes in the Street series, “The street is the site, metaphorically as well as in actuality, of all the forces of society and economics imploded upon the individual, who, moving within the dense forest of symbols of the modern...
