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Whitney Museum of American Art
Floor 3, Theater and online, via Zoom
Join us for a celebration of the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive 1972/3 at White Columns, one of the Whitney’s downtown neighbors. Featuring presentations by co-curators Jessamyn Fiore and Roger Gastman alongside artists Taki 183, Leonard Hilton McGurr (aka Futura 2000) and Michael Lawrence, with Mike 171 and SJK 171, the program explores Matta-Clark’s lifelong interest in the relationship between art and public space, his understanding of graffiti as an art form in its own right, and these artists’ involvement in the inception of the graffiti movement. The program also includes a screening of UGA (1973), featuring rare footage of the group United Graffiti Artists (UGA), an influential collective of early graffiti writers founded in 1972 by Hugo Martinez, a sociology student at the City College of New York.
Between 1972 and 1973 Gordon Matta-Clark took thousands of photographs of graffiti in New York City, telling the story of a changing city through the unlikely entwinement of early street art with the evolving practice of a major conceptual artist. The exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive 1972/3 displays a selection of the artist’s photographs from the period alongside early, original artworks by the writers and artists immortalized within Matta-Clark’s images.
This program is co-presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art and White Columns.
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The exhibition GORDON MATTA-CLARK: NYC GRAFFITI ARCHIVE 1972/3 continues at White Columns through May 17.
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