Group Show
September 23 – October 6, 1972

Jared Bark
Tina Girouard
Gordon Matta-Clark
Richard Nonas
Hisachika Takahashi

Jared Bark “Built up layers of black plasticene on the wall. While this clay was still fairly glutinous, he threw a billiard ball, marbles, and other hard round objects at it. The impact formed crater-like depressions. Another piece mimicked constellations: plate glass was sprayed dark blue, placed against the wall, and then shots from Bark’s BB gun formed a pattern. Each pellet fractured the glass in star shapes and blew the paint off.” [Laurie Anderson]

Tina Girouard used burlap feed bags which she brought back from Arcadiana, Louisiana to construct an H-shaped curtain. This served as the set for Oleo or Autumnal Equinox, a ritual performed with Suzanne Harris on the evening of September 23. Corn, in its various stages of refinement: on the cob, dried corn, cornmeal, yellow cornflour, and cornstarch were ceremonially scattered on the floor. The resulting pattern along with the set curtain became Girouard’s piece in the show.

Richard Nonas exhibited a rough timber piece.

George Smudge (aka Gordon Matta-Clark) exhibited a baby carriage loaded with junk, which he found, as is, in the street of SoHo.

Hisachika Takahashi borrowed mirrors from his friends and placed them along the walls. The mirrors varied greatly in size, shape, and degree of ornamentation or framing. The donors’ names appeared next to the mirrors in both English and Japanese.

Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.