White Columns

FINAL WEEK!
GORDON MATTA-CLARK:
NYC GRAFFITI ARCHIVE 1972/3
CLOSES SATURDAY, MAY 17 AT 6PM
A wall in a gallery hung salon-style with 10 artworks and two vitrines centered under the works. The largest work, in the center, is a horizontal black painting that reads “COCO” in shadowed yellowish-green letters. Scrawled on the wall under this is black text that reads “WORSHIP GOD.” To the left and right of the painting are more artworks, including works on canvas by graffiti artists SHASTA 62/EARL – Earle Augustus, MICO and SJK 171.
Gordon-Matta Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive 1972/3, installation view, 2025. 

Gordon-Matta Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive 1972/3
Through May 17.

Closing event presented with the Whitney Museum of American Art:
GORDON-MATTA CLARK AND NYC GRAFFITI CULTURE 1972-73

In-person tickets for this event have sold out.
Register here to join the online Zoom webinar.

 

 

PRESS:

Hyperallergic – “When Graffiti Met Conceptual Art”
Whitehot Magazine – “Weekend Reviews: Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive at White Columns”
Contemporary Art Daily – May 8, 2025

 
A view of several white walls in a gallery. On the left wall hangs a large painting on canvas that reads SNAKE in yellow letters outlined in blue, surrounded with clouds of red and blue. A similarly-sized canvas on the right wall reads LEE in huge white letters which overlap as they descend vertically, surrounded by hearts, polka dots and, in the bottom left corner, a spiderweb motif. On the rear wall are a series of framed photographs of graffiti, which are hung salon-style.
Gordon-Matta Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive 1972/3, installation view, 2025. 

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