Group Show: September 1 – October 18, 1973
September 1–October 18, 1973 112 Greene Street/WorkshopAlice Aycock, Tropico de Cancer, 9 photographs, 8″ × 10″ each, installation view, 1973
Alice Aycock, Maze, from the series Six Semi-Architectural Projects, 1973
Alice Aycock, Maze, from the series Six Semi-Architectural Projects, 1973
Alice Aycock, Maze, from the series Six Semi-Architectural Projects, 1973
Alice Aycock, Maze, from the series Six Semi-Architectural Projects, 1973
Alice Aycock, Maze project card, from the series Six Semi-Architectural Projects, 1973
Alice Aycock, Tunnel / Well Project project card, from the series Six Semi-Architectural Projects, 1973
Alice Aycock, Project for Curvature of the Earth over a 1600 mile segment (minus atmospheric refraction) project card, from the series Six Semi-Architectural Projects, 1973
Alice Aycock, Asphalt Flat / Cloud Formation Project project card, from the series Six Semi-Architectural Projects, 1973
Alice Aycock, Project for Elevation with Obstructed Site Lines project card, from the series Six Semi-Architectural Projects, 1973
Alice Aycock, Six Semi-Architectural Projects project cards, installation view, 1973
Alice Aycock, Frequency Threshold, installation view, tweeter, amplifier, audio generator, 1973
Ned Smyth, installation view, 1973
Bernard Kirschenbaum, Sprung Steel Sculpture, installation view, 1973. Photo: Bernard Kirschenbaum.
Participating Artists
Alice Aycock
Kathryn Bigelow
Ralston Farina
Betsy Ferguson
Abigail Gerd
Tina Girouard
Suzanne Harris
Jene Highstein
Gerard Herant Hovagimyan
Bernard Kirschenbaum
Jeffrey Lew
Al Loving
Gordon Matta-Clark
Carolyn Mazzello
G. McNeur
Larry Miller
Richard Mock
Anthony Mascatello
Richard Nonas
Christopher Rauschenberg
Ned Smyth
Marjorie Strider
Susan Weil
Exhibition Description
ALICE AYCOCK’s Frequency Threshold used an audio generator and amplified tweeter to transmit a sine wave of between 14,000 to 20,000 cycles per second thus attaining the upper frequency limit of human hearing.
The artist also exhibited Six Semi-Architectural Projects which consisted of photographs of her executed work and project cards for proposed works, and Tropico de Cancer which consisted of nine photographs, each measuring 8×10″ showing the artist straddling the boundary line at latitude 23½° North, Tampulipas, Mexico.
RALSTON FARINA’s “Time Art” was presented in two parts. For the first part, Farina created a continuously changing drawing with food coloring and glasswax on one of 112’s street windows. For the second part of “Time Art”, the artist placed found objects in a large wooden frame in various arrangements which were changed throughout the exhibition.
TINA GIROUARD exhibited Lie-No, which consisted of four pieces of flower-patterned linoleum placed on the floor.
SUZANNE HARRIS exhibited One / Four. No further information available.
JENE HIGHSTEIN exhibited an untitled steel piece consisting of two units. The work measured 7×26×42′.
GERARD HERANT HOVAGIMYAN exhibited Given: 1. An Elevated, 2. A Golden Box. No further information available.
BERNARD KIRSCHENBAUM exhibited a sculpture consisting of two sprung steel oval loops, which bisected each other at right angles and stood perpendicularly to the floor. The sensitive steel was set in motion when the viewer walked through the piece.
AL LOVING exhibited a painting made with corrugated cardboard.
ANTHONY MASCATELLO described his piece as follows: “The piece here is a sequence of seven implied cones, whose seven needles will need to be periodically reset. Viewers are encouraged to do this resetting themselves, a rather delicate procedure wherein the viewer is taught by the needle to control himself—a sort of small theater.”
GORDON MATTA-CLARK attached a long row of photographs of graffiti-decorated subway trains to the outside wall of a building visible through the rear windows of the gallery. The viewers had to traverse the rear of the space, looking out the windows as if they were watching a subway train passing through a station. [Description taken from Rosemary Mayer, Arts Magazine, November 1973, pg. 63.]
LARRY MILLER exhibited Orange in Space, Ascending and Descending, which consisted of six pairs of photos of an orange which had been hit by a bullet. Rock, Ascending and Descending, Symmetry and Asymmetry consisted of two pairs of photographs. The artist was working with spatial relationships and the interaction between words (the titles) and images.
RICHARD MOCK’s Joachim and Boaz was created with brightly colored fabric and two gold fabric covered poles, which leaned against the wall, framing an irregular piece of patch-work fabric. Another multi-colored covered pole stood vertically in front of the large piece of fabric.
RICHARD NONAS showed North Slope Shorty, a rectangular structure of old wood beams with two parallel beams resting on the floor ahd the other two parallel beams resting on those below.
CHRISTOPHER RAUSCHENBERG Showed nine photographs. No further information available.
NED SMYTH showed cement architectural details and perspectives. No further information available.
SUSAN WEIL exhibited a painting, Same, consisting of four 24″ square sections of acrylic on wood, metal, paper, and linen respectively.