Courtesy of
PLAXALL
LONG ISLAND CITY
NOVEMBER 2017
The Sculpture Center
INSTALLATION
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MOMA PSI
36 Bars
Through December 17
Amphitheater Gallery
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In the 1980s, Los Angeles photographer John Divola began
collecting photographs that were made during Hollywood
productions and later discarded. The 36 photographs on exhibit
here were found in a small poster shop behind a ower store on
Sunset Boulevard. They had been retrieved from a dumpster by a
long-time Warner Bros. employee. These incredibly detailed
images, dating from circa 1928–1933 and made with 8x10
cameras, were made solely to provide records of movie sets for
continuity during production. As found objects, their aesthetic
beauty challenges the distinction between ne art photography
and the craftsmanship of Hollywood technicians. These
photographs also remind us of the power of movies to create ideas
of how certain spaces should look and feel. Hollywood production
designers and directors take an abstract concept—such as a
bar—and realize it with great specicity. Indeed, Divola reminds
us that specicity of visual detail is the dening characteristic of
photography.
Paul O’Keee produces the most carefully thought out and
exactingly made art — enigmatic in appearance and
rewarding upon careful consideration. The work is highly
cerebral, planned, concise, and extremely sophisticated in
concept and visual actualization. His sculpture is
meticulously produced; his proportions are beautifully
conceived; he plays continuously with open and closed
spaces and forms, and positive and negative space.
MoMA PS1 presents the rst monographic exhibition of Cathy
Wilkes (Irish, b. 1966) in New York. The largest exhibition of
the artist’s work to date, Cathy Wilkes features approximately
50 works from public and private collections throughout
Europe and North America as well as new pieces created for
the show, oering a broad view of Wilkes’s work since 2004.
The exhibition is organized in conjunction with Wilkes’s
receipt of the rst Maria Lassnig Prize, awarded by the Maria
Lassnig Foundation in 2016.
Paul O'Keee
Screaming Voicelessly to a Distant Silence
Main Gallery
Friday, November 10 – Friday, Dec. 22, 2017
Cathy Wilkes
Through March 11, 2018
Dual opening reception
withSculptural Voyage/
2017/ Andrew T. Chakalis
Friday, Nov. 10, from 5:30 – 8 p.m.
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