MASS MoCA Summer 2013

Eric Doeringer, Some Los Angeles Apartments, in Love to Love You, curated by Martha Joseph.

 

MASS MoCA SUMMER 2013!! .... some new shows opened.... a Jason Middlebrook show, a Joseph Montgomery show, and a small group show including Eric Doeringer.

 

Jason Middlebrook's centerpiece... a Falling Water sculpture... kind of an 'awkward space'-filler, his totems/planks are more interesting.

MASS MoCA recycles everything... I wouldn't even be surprised if this was Styrofoam left-over from K. Grosse's wonderful show.

BEST use of MASS MoCA recycling I have seen yet was the utilization of the the C. Buchel abandoned movie theater seats to watch Guy Ben-Ner's (Buchel mocking) video.

Jason Middlebrook... charred-ish...  'plank' pieces are always cool. How/Why. Also, anything that is burned or just looks burned.

 

Judy Chicago's 'plank'-ish piece, Rainbow Picket (1965), included in the 1966 Primary Structures show, came before the first McCracken plank (1966)...  he was in Primary Structures also, but it wasn't a plank... was he inspired? I've never read anything.

 

Judy Chicago +... tough ads-as-art in Artforum before Benglis, car hoods on walls before Prince.

 

Jason Middlebrook

 

close-up

Jason Middlebrook

 

Eric Doeringer + MASS MoCA's Director Joe Thompson.

Eric has what looks like a really good show - or series of shows - this summer at No Foundation, in Toronto. I saw some photos on his facebook... not sure if this link to the fb pic works but try it. Eric's 2009 show at Dam, Stuhltrager was one of those rare perfect shows.

Joseph Montgomery

 

MORE TOTEMS!... not planks though, on the wall.

 

plastic coated

 

Joseph Montgomery

 

really like how this oily one extends, and the shadows

 

 these are so 3-D

 

Joseph Montgomery

 

Eric with artists working at MASS MoCA.  Eric's GF,,, I staged this photo don't be mad!

 

NOTE of DISCORD - i don't live terribly far from this museum... back in 5/2012 i emailed some curators here (Susan Cross, Denise Markonish, +) and at the Tang (Megan Hyde, Rachel Seligman, Ian Berry), inviting them to visit my studio... not a single one responded, even to decline. LAME!!...as non-profit museum 'curated' shows it's kind of sad; the artist's NYC galleries do all the work getting these shows placed.

 

Nari Ward

Nari Ward

Nari Ward, at MASS MoCA






Sprague Electronics things



Nari Ward, with Sylvia Chivaratanond and Philippe Vergne.








Old smokestack from the original factory used as the base.

Everything gets re-used and recycled at this museum; things from the factory and town end up in the art, things from one artist's exhibition get repurposed for another exhibition (Jenny Holzer's window blockers become masking for Katharina Grosse, Christoph Buchel's abandoned theatre seating gets used to view Guy Ben-Ner work). Many of the current guards and attendants are former factory employees.

This place is a treasure.



Nari Ward at MASS MoCA

Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse at MASS MoCA.








boards used to cover the window for jenny holzer's show were recycled as masking for this wall... they don't waste anything at this museum (for example sitting in christoph buchel's abandoned theatre seats to watch guy ben-ner's mocking video).


side by side BUILDINGs-ful of Katharina Grosse and Sol Lewitt wow.


Katharina Grosse

She gave a wonderful talk I attended in 2005 -
Katharina Grosse lecture Part 1
Katharina Grosse lecture Part 2
Katharina Grosse lecture Part 3


more pictures on my flickr


lines








KG

Material World

Alyson Shotz

Material World, curated by Susan Cross, at MASS MoCA.




Alyson Shotz






She was wearing a cool shirt covered with pearly iridescent animal and butterfly(?) shapes.. it matched her piece... but she wouldn't let me take a picture.


Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen Nguyen, with Art!


Caitlin Bermingham, Alyssa Wright, Stephen Nguyen, Tom Kotik.


gold cap and stars.


striped siren.


Jason Wilcox... artist and MASS MoCA art installer.


Orly Genger


A lot of people were talking on the other side of that wall and it created some weird muffled acoustics on this side. Fun and mysterious.


Orly Genger




Adventurer.




Tobias Putrih... stationary spotlight on monfilament... somehow a constellation of dots forms an arch... and as you move around looks like a projected flickering image shifting in space. Totally cinematic. I like the view of it from Orly's piece a couple pictures above... like you are looking into a movie theatre.




Tobias Putrih