June 4 - July 3, 2009 (Los Angeles)
apexart presents the exhibition X, Y, Z, and U curated by The Franchise winners The League of Imaginary Scientists at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

June 10 – July 3, 2009 (New York)
While the franchise is on view in L.A., apexart will present an exhibition that comments on business strategies adopted by the artworld and the process of the franchise project.

Curated by: Alexis Arnau, Earon Brathwaite, Machiel Espinal, Ernest Johnson, Kiara McDonald, Nahyshel Molina, Kyana Morales, José Paulino, Angelica Rodriguez, Giornanda Rodriguez, Jonathan Rodriguez, Serena Vicens, Felicia Villacres

Presenting work by Anthony Berlet, M.D., Antonino Cassisi, M.D., Michael Cohen, M.D., Scott Spiro, M.D.

With projects by Akay, Kyle Alvarez, damali ayo, Rachel Dengiz, Shaina Feinberg, Chelsea Hodson, Marc Israel, Sarah Locke & Ghostshrimp, Brett Loudermilk, Chris K, David Meiklejohn, Carson Mell, Amber Morris, Kel O'Neill & Eline Jongsma, Scott Patterson, Jessica Sanders, Dan Tice, Nicky Verdoodt, AJ Wilhelm & Jason Orfanon, Lev Yilmaz, Jenny Owen Youngs

With projects by Ricardo Basbaum (Brazil), Jan Kaila (Finland), Irene Kopelman (The Netherlands), Matts Leiderstam (Sweden), Ronan McCrea (Ireland), Sarah Pierce (UK/USA), and Morten Torgersrud (Norway).

6 days of projects organized by Azeb Worku Sibane, Vicky Shick, Daniel Seiple, Sheree Rose, Radhika Subramaniam, and Shelly Silver

Through installation, new media and fine arts, these Curatorial Studies students explore works of art that address different relationships of power in the city. Students connect their personal experience and their life in New York City to visual and architectural manifestations of power and ideology around them. They will closely look at the architecture in their neighborhoods such as East New York, Harlem and the Bronx.

Artists: Michael Dal Cerro, Michael Paul Britto, Karlos Carcamo and James Jaxxa

This show explored a very small and specific type of artmaking exemplified by contemporary people like David Shrigley, Raymond Pettibon, Nedko Solakov, and Tucker Nichols. This kind of art, which we refuse to name, is somewhat crude, usually irreverent, and always funny. It exists somewhere between one-panel cartoons and text-based art.

Through visual elements and theoretical texts, the videos in this exhibition reflected on the application of appropriational technique to film. Each of these videos combines a theoretical text that is written and spoken by the author and film footage, fragments taken out of different movies and film documentations. At first glance these videos remind the spectator of the videos and short films that are used today to transmit knowledge, to comment on the news, to spread religious and ideological propaganda, or to be used in the framework of education.

apexart held an open call, requesting submissions of a 30-second TV commercial about us from individuals and collaborative groups. The commercials are available for viewing on a public-access site, where viewers were encouraged to visit and cast votes for their favorite. In addition, all commercials were be on view as part of an innovative living-room-style installation at apexart from January 9 to February 16, 2008. The winning entry will have their commercial aired on network TV.

As real estate prices have skyrocketed throughout cities of the world, it has become increasingly difficult to sustain a place. Some artists' responses to this situation mirror those of many practitioners in the sixties and seventies who moved to the margins to seek out an abandoned or still undeveloped site to live and work on an expanded scale. By contrast, no piece in LAND GRAB has involved a real estate transaction or finding that prime location.

Artists: Leyla Cárdenas, Jens Haaning, John Hawke, Albert Heta, Søren Holm Hvilsby and Pernille Skov, Lasse Lau, Dan Perjovschi, Recetas Urbanas, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Michael Smith and Joshua White, Lars Vilks

Every new telling of a story perfects its narrative but also rearranges, edits and moves it further from its original, authentic plot. What do we remember? How do we remember and retell stories of the past? How do we project them into the future?

Artists are Zbynek Baladran, Alejandro Cesarco, Felix Gmelin, Sanja Ivekovic, David Maljkovic, Ahmet Ogut, Katerina Seda, Artur Zmijewski

The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe was presented in response to two major social issues of our time: biennialessness and poverty. Through an open call to curators and artists, over 450 people became "with biennial." All works were available for donation. All 355 works in the exhibition were bid on and that nearly $13,000 was raised (in $10 increments) for the Robin Hood Foundation of NYC.

The show is comprised of nearly one hundred artifacts from Sante's own collection--holy pictures, photographs, death letters, leaflets, posters, dime novels, relics, banners, and ephemera. These objects will be connected by a text running along the walls of the gallery. The visitor can choose to engage with the exhibition either superficially or in depth. Either tactic is guaranteed to leave a subconscious residue of ambiguity and doubt.

This exhibition was curated and presented by high school students enrolled in ABACA's Curatorial Studies class held at Satellite Academy. This year's exhibition seeks to discuss and demonstrate different aspects of violence such as racism, stereotypes and social or historical injustice, as well as personal and emotional experiences with violence, through works of art.

Artists: Bradley McCallum & Jaqueline Tarry, Micheal Paul Britto, Lan Tuazon, John Abner and Jessica Acobe

The two Jews from L.A. who bring you Drawn Together present the people who help write and draw the series in an “art” exhibit. Artists from Rough Draft Studios show unpublished, unaired, uncensored and mostly unseen stuff.

With work by Stephanie Arnett, Dan Bond, Edgar Duncan, Edmund Fong, Bari Kumar, Gennady Kornyshev, Samantha Harrison, Jeff Mertz, Mike Wodkowski and a text by Elijah Aron and Jordan Young

This exhibition brings together the work of a group of artists that consistently and very differently explore temporariness and, more specifically, the possibility of temporal instability in the work of art. This is manifest not so much as a subject, but rather as a constitutive element, shaping the artwork's fragility as well as the indeterminacy of an exhibition visitor's experience of it. Whether primarily motivated by the political, aesthetic, economic, or the intimate, these objects literally perform their temporal questioning.

Artists: Michel Blazy, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gabriel Kuri, Oksana Pasaiko, Tomo Savic-Gecan, Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Whether a gift for a superior, an inferior, a partner, family member or friend, issues of intent and meaning are part of the wrapping. This exhibition reconsiders the relationship of philanthropy, hidden meaning and gift giving. Ten local artists have each been commissioned to produce a "gift." A present for someone they don't know. The only restriction given was that it had to fit in the gift box we provided, otherwise we would show whatever they gave us, with no censorship.

Artists: Felipe Arturo, Nayia Frangouli, David Greg Harth, Vandana Jain, Matt Keegan, Kambui Olujimi, Lisi Raskin, Paul Wirhun, Joe Scanlan, Alejandra Villasmil

Re-enacting (with a twist) famous conceptual works, the artists in neo-con level and humanize, by quirky humor and down-to-earth sensibility, the key principles of Conceptualism like the favoring of ideas over object-making, the dematerialization of the art object, the production of work in collaboration and often without a studio.

Artists: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Jonathan Monk, Yoshua Okon, Joao Onofre, Mario Garcia Torres, Francesco Vezzoli

How do the two terms, art and gift, dfine each other? This summer’s exhibition results from interviewing a number of artists and non-artists about gifts given and received, presents reflections on how gifts redefine the boundaries of artistic production.

Featuring gifts given and received by: Eric Walker, Eliza Griffiths, Julie Voyce, Stephen Andrews, Paul P., Glenn Ligon, Byron Kim, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Harrell Fletcher, Harriet Sigal, Lisa Sigal, Amy Sillman, Eric Banks, Jutta Koether, Richard Phillips, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

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This "mini" version of the Tirana Biennale asks: What happens to inhibitions in today’s swell of globalization? Does the old Polynesian term “taboo” still have meaning, or have such notions disappeared in the “everything goes” drive of global Capital? To what extent do the power structures of our society differ from those of the past, and is history still relevant?

Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Ivan Grubanov, Sejla Kameric, Armando Lulaj, Suela Qoshja, Joanna Rytel, IngridMwangiRobertHutter

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The act of leaving one‘s given place and occupying another is both emotionally and spiritually intense. What can be the gains of the physical and intellectual relocation? And, more importantly, can we displace our focus without losses?

Artists: Big Hope (Miklós Erhardt and Dominic Hislop), Ian Burns, Sonja Feldmeier, Andrea Geyer, Wang Jianwei, Szabolcs Kisspál, Moshekwa Langa, Little Warsaw (Bálint Havas and András Gálik), Myrna Maakaron, Katarina Sevic

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From the Peloponnesian Wars to the Black Death and the War in Iraq, in dire times laughter has always been the best revenge. Art critic Amei Wallach surveys three generations of artists who amuse and appall.

Artists: William Anthony, Ida Applebroog, Hideaki Ariizumi, Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Tamy Ben-Tor, Paul Chan, Michael Combs, Thornton Dial, Matt Forderer, Regina Gilligan, David Hammons, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Melamid & William McClelland, Peter Land, Laura Nova, David Rees, Skart, Nancy Spero, Art Spiegelman, Marie Watt, Olav Westphalen, Paul Zaloom

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Selected artists will review the apexart archive to interpret, speculate, add to and imagine their own understanding of what specific past events at the gallery might have been like.

Artists: Adam Chodzko, Maria Eichhorn, Knowles Eddy Knowles, Elizabeth Price
[Selected through apexart Unsolicited Proposal Program]

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Examines mechanical reproduction and seemingly “analog” approaches to art-making in our contemporary "digital" world.

Artists: Kota Ezawa, Malachi Farrell, Wayne Gonzales, Emilie Halpern, Jan Mancuska, Laurent Montaron, Scott Myles, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

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Exploring the complex relationship between mass media and global corporate culture, this exhibition explores the strategies of grassroots activism (installation, poster, video, radio, and internet art) to demand freedom of information rights and bring forward what is being omitted.

Artists: Paul Chan, Marcelo Expósito, neuroTransmitter, Martha Rosler, The Speculative Archive / Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, 0100101110101101.ORG (Eva and Franco Mattes), The Yes Men

[Selected through apexart Unsolicited Proposal Program]

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Featuring responses by artists to 9/11, the exhibition aims to show how art actually embodies grief and to reflect on how artists dealt with the attack.

Artists: Audrey Flack, Leslie King-Hammond, Jeffrey Lohn, Mary Miss with Victoria Marshall and Elliott Maltby, Lucio Pozzi, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Westman, Robert Rahway Zakanitch

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The tactile, visual, and philosophical fuse in this exhibition, historically anchored in the “gifts” innovated in the 1830s by Friedrich Fröbel, the inventor of Kindergarten.

For the 2005 summer program, an invited writer - Sina Najafi (Editor in Chief, Cabinet magazine)- selects three art dealers to each choose an artist for a group exhibition, with the writer contributing a text.

Works by: Friedrich Fröbel, Jeannine Mosely, and Shea Zellweger
Selected by: Norman Brosterman (author, Inventing Kindergarten) and Christine & Margaret Wertheim (The Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles)

Sacred Wild will examine the way contemporary artists are drawn to sacred images and are using them in their everyday life. The six artists, based in Iowa, Virginia, and Illinois, incorporate or address the trend towards investigating one's personal spirituality over organized religious thought.

Artists: Jane Vance Siegle, David T. Hanson, Hank Foreman, Kathy Pinkerton, Fern Shaffer and Othello Anderson

Issue #7 of Afterall will be turned into an exhibition This issue pivoted around the idea of the gothic as both the dark side (of artistic behavior) and complex visual patterning.

Artists: Kenneth Anger, Jeremy Blake, The Handsome Family, Jutta Koether and Richard Wright

The exhibition proposes that the Nordic discourses on the subject may have a value in the current international political climate as well as highlights artworks that seem to contest this kind of purposefulness. Ultimately intervening into the realm between art and politics with the same ambivalence which is so prevalent in the Nordic system.

Artists: Cathrine Evelid, Matias Faldbakken, Katja Høst, Ulf Lundin, Jakob Kolding, Ketil Nergaard, Aleksandra Mir

Five Saturdays of Events: Each Saturday from Feb 12 to Mar 12, apexart featured a performance-related activity: an all day line-up of special guest speakers, premieres of TV ads of contemporary artists, bands collaborating with video artists, a traditional Afghan-food tasting performance, and other surprises.

Five Iranian artists use art as a tool for the demonstration of mental and physical constructions.

panel: Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate with Negar Azimi, Christopher de Bellaigue, Abbas Milani, and Farhad Moshiri at the Tribeca Grand Hotel

Artists: Roxanna Daryadanesh, Shahab Fotouhi, Barbad Golshiri, Neda Razavipour and Vahid Hakim

Drafting Deceit modestly approaches the construction of delusion as a deliberate gesture that infers a particular performability located in the purposeful drafting of the illusory.

Artists: Sven Augustijnen, Michaël Borremans, Johannes Kahrs, Marije Langelaar and Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Kirsten Pieroth

This exhibition is about the meaning of a home, and a home within our own selves. A home where existential reflections and anxieties are accumulated through the dramatic events which characterize recent times.

Artists: Vito Acconci (New York), Krzysztof Bednarski (Warsaw, Poland), Barbara Bloom (New York), Zvi Hecker, (Berlin/Tel Aviv), Vittorio Messina (Rome, Italy), Anila Rubiku (Albania) and Micha Ullman (Israel)

If the atomic bomb threatens total destruction, the work in Building the Unthinkable then shifts attention to its productive element. This exhibition examines contemporary artistic and architectural production responding to an unlikely inspiration.

Artists: The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Gregory Green, Michael Light, Andreas Magdanz, Peter Marlow, Dominic McGill, Beryl Korot and Steve Reich, World Power Systems and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
[Selected from apexart Unsolicited Proposal Program]

The 2004 Summer Exhibition presented an interruption of the typical expectations artworks
present to viewers. Cay Sophie Rabinowitz selected two gallerists (Brian Butler and Henry Urbach) to each choose two artists whom they do not represent for a group exhibition.

Henry Urbach selected Paul de Guzman and Wade Guyton.
Brian Butler selected Efrat Shvily and Liliana Moro.

O.K., America! aimed to initiate a process of reflection on the ambivalent meaning of the "fingerprint" as a symbol of modern society. The work reflected on control and surveillance, identity and the freedom of artistic expression.

Artists: The Blue Noses Group, Daniele Buetti, Escape Group, Kendell Geers, Ghazel, Elena Kowylina, Elke Krystufek, Oscar Muñoz, Raymond Pettibon

apexart moved Black Dragon Society and its Director from Los Angeles to NYC to take over the exhibition space.

Artists: Jeddiah Caesar, Steve Canaday, Gerald Davis, Jacques de Beaufort, Mark Golamco, Hannah Greely, Nick Lowe, Jodie Mohr, Ry Rocklen, Oscar Santos, Rob Thom

The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade: The use value of art reflected on the inability of art to empower anyone to do anything about socio-politial issues, despite promises supported by institutions, lending a largely unchallenged semblance of truth as well as the trustworthiness of convention.

Artists and Collectives: The Atlas Group (New York / Beirut), Grupo de Arte Callejero (Buenos Aires), The Yesmen (New York / Paris), Critical Art Ensemble (USA), Bureau d'études (Paris), AAA.Corp (France), xurban (New York / Istanbul)

Treasure Maps exhibited images that represented visual language in its broadest sense. Highly specialized technical illustrations (DNA extraction, matrix and vector space) appeared alongside ambiguous drawing-like records of physical movement, which allowed viewers to explore, and in many cases invent, the internal logic of each image.

Participants: Earle Brown, Chitra Ganesh, Tim R. Riley, Michael Schumacher, Elizabeth Streb, Vinzenz Unger

Architecture and planning have often been privileged as sites for utopian projection. Adaptations looked at small-scale forms of independence, and the context in which they have emerged to consider the potentialities they hold and the limits they encounter.

Artists and Collectives: Kim Adams, The Arnait Video Collective, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Nils Norman, Ocean Earth, Michael Rakowitz, Raqs Media Collective, Stealth Group, Oscar Tuazon and Dick Fischbeck

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Looking Awry dealt with aspects of repetition, re-actualization, re-staging and re-enactments (as a form of change and a source of knowledge) in relation to both history and contemporary political investments of everyday life and popular culture.

Artists: Maja Bajevic, Igor Grubic, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Adrian Paci

To Be Political It Has To Look Nice presented a series of intersections and distinctions in current contemporary cultural production from Latin America, featuring the work of over 35 artists and collectives from 9 countries.

Artists: Armando Andrade, Fernando Bryce, B-Lo, Erick Beltrán, Stefan Brüggemann, Miguel Calderón, Capacete, Carolina Caycedo, El Chino Ediciones, Eduardo Consuegra, Galeria Chilena, Mauricio Guillén, Helena Producciones, Larregui-Laguerre, M777, Olho SP, Sebastián Ramírez, Pedro Reyes, Los Super Elegantes, Javier Téllez, El Vicio

Playing with a Loaded Gun: Contemporary Art in Pakistan featured work by 11 artists who explore the dichotomy of life in Pakistan, taking the nation's most difficult social, cultural, and political issues and examining them in beautiful and playful artworks.

Artists: Ambreen Butt, Alia Hasan-Khan, Hasnat Mehmood, Imran Qureshi, Rashid Rana, Reeta Saeed, Adeela Suleman, Masooma Syed, Risham Syed, Saira Wasim

Artforum contributing editor and art critic, Katy Siegel, has selected two gallerists to each select two artists that they do not represent for a four week exhibition.

Mitchell Algus selected John Dogg, Kaz Oshiro
Michelle Maccarone selected Nate Lowman, and Roberto Cuoghi

Uncovers the many layers of the copy by looking at artists that either work directly from a reproduction or reproduce their own work. In both systems of production, the image is transformed in the artist's interpretation. The finished products deliberately never look like the source being copied.

Artists: Suzanne Bocanegra, Michael Cloud, Anoka Faruqee, Marietta Ganapin, Devorah Sperber

Is it too romantic to treat an exhibition like a space of representation? Undesire articulates its curator's inability to be present in today's United States of America at war and the works echo the tensions and emotions that are created during a relationship of conflict.

Artists: Phil Collins, Fikret Atay, Inci Eviner, and Dan Perjovschi

Realizes an environment for information exchange of the many pertinent issues in the world today that are not being discussed by mainstream media. This idealized total resource system facilitates the dispersal of relevant information through the works by the artists.

Artists: Ross Birrell, Jakob Boeskov, Steven Duval, Gardar Eide Einarsson & Oscar Tuazon, Regina Moller, N55, John Pilger and others

Inspired by the Grace Paley short story by the same name, the exhibition An Interest in Life combines artworks demonstrating a liveliness that avoids art world hermeticism and encourages understanding through their plain spoken nature.

Artists: Brienne Arrington, Erin Cosgrove, Micol Hebron, Jen Liu, Jennifer Nelson

Walking in the City examines the work of a younger generation of artists and highlights the way they engage with the historic strategies of resisting and negotiating regulated space developed by an older generation.

Artists: Valerie Tevere, Simon Leung, Kim Soo-ja, Valie Export, Yayoi Kusama, Adrian Piper, David Wojnarowic, Alex Villar

sans an exhibition consists of five weeks of disparate programming, with each day scheduled by a different artist, writer, and/or curator.

Programmers: Uthit Animana, Elaine Bowen, Matthew Buckingham, Mary Ellen Carroll, Mary Ceruti, Alicia Chillida,Paul Clay, Dean Daderko, Dennis Elliott, Heather Felty, Melissa Pearl Friedling, Charles Goldman, Christopher K. Ho, Moukhtar Kocache, Carin Kuoni, Jenny Perlin, Allison Peters, Mira Schor, Mari Spirito, Greg Williams and YYZ Artists' Outlet

In Time is Free, the twentieth century notion of leisure time as unstructured and relaxing is challenged through the artworks by artists from around the world.

Artists: Ellen Brusselmans (Brussels), Jessica Diamond (USA), Asta Groting (Germany), Kenny Maclead (Scotland), Manfred Pernice (Germany), Ettore Spalletti (Italy), Sikle Schatz (Germany)

Invites a selection of artist collaboratives to create projects that seek to fill holes left in the social sphere by the retreat of government interest and support.

Collectives: Temporary Services, The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Marksearch, Nuts Society and It Can Change

Two gallerists each selects two artists whom they do not represent and who have not had meaningful exposure in New York for a two week exhibition. This year, artist and independent curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud has selected Chelsea Gallery Directors, Anton Kern and Sara Meltzer to act as curators for the 222 program.

Artists: Laura Carton and Jonathan Grassi

Two gallerists each selects two artists whom they do not represent and who have not had meaningful exposure in New York for a two week exhibition. This year, artist and independent curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud has selected Chelsea Gallery Directors, Anton Kern and Sara Meltzer to act as curators for the 222 program.

Artists: Eli Sudbrack and Kalaman

Does art always have to be explained, documented, mediated, exhibited? Will the artists of a transparent society have to submit to the rules of social control and the logic of marketing? The exhibition seeks to demonstrate that art strategies based on invisible, secret and encrypted proposals are now emerging within the informational paradigm.

Artists: Philippe Blanc, Dr. Brady, Cercle Ramo Nash, Florian Faelbel, Richard Kongrosian, Alexandre Lenoir, Martin Tupper, David Vincent

An exhibition considering connections between beauty and health/healing. Work by Joe Ben, a New Mexico Navajo Indian, who heals people through traditional sandpainting; Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist living in New York, whose work reflects traditional Chinese medicines; and Gera and Gedewon, two Ethiopian scholars who make talismanic paintings to cure their patients.

Artists: Gera and Gedewon, Cai Guo-Qiang, Joe Ben

Unjustified uses a curatorial strategy of resisting the implied justification for the array of works by not building the curatorial frame as a pre-interpretive device.

Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Lynne Brown, Tim Fielder, Emily Jacir, Saeri Kiritani, Raj Kahlon, Carrie Moyer, Jane M. Saks Kwabena Prentiss Slaughter, May Sun

Artists who have subverted the original purpose of certain machines, technology, and objects of everyday use. Using materials intended for industrial applications and assembly-line economy, the artist designs for them a new function: to produce unique sounds and images.

Artists: Ruth Anderson, Ken Linehan, Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Polli, Scanner and Katarina Matiasek, Laetitia Sonami

The exhibition borrows its title from the renowned image by Man Ray that shows the door in Marcel Duchamp's apartment in New York, which opens a space and simultaneously closes another one and its reverse - evoking the notion of fluidity and confusion between the realms of the public and the private.

Artists: Vito Acconci, Antoni Abad, Muntadas, Chris Marker, Francis Alys, Christian Jankowsky, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Otto Berchem, Roland Boden, Mark Formanek, Begoña Muñoz, Gillian Wearing

An exhibition of artists whose works explore the human fascination with sports, the pervasiveness of contemporary sports culture and its richness for metaphorial play.

Artists: Grazia Toderi, Satch Hoyt, Elisabetta Benassi, Carlos Amorales, Gustavo Artigas, Michaela Schweiger, Mónica de la Torre, Bruce Pearson

Two New York based artists: Sante Scardillo, who confronts the impact of advertising on social behavior by ‘hijacking’ advertisements, and Amy Kao, whose mylar works are explorations of perceptual emergence achieved through light.

Artists: Amy Kao and Sante Scardillo

Two artists concerned with personal existence within a broader context and rediscovering the familiar. LeCuyer mines his subconscious to discover original form; Wesselo alters his vantage point to discover new things about both the landscape and himself.

Artists: Erik Wesselo and Clifford LeCuyer

Since the Readymade of Marcel Duchamp "objets trouvés" are an important issue in modern and contemporary art. But what about the things lost? The exhibition tells us, in a few extraordinary examples, about loosing and finding.

Artists: George Brecht, Stanley Brouwn, Marcel Broodthaers, Henning Christiansen, Maria Eichhorn, Romuald Hazoumé, Gülsün Karamustafa, Alison Knowles, Kim Sooja, Serge Spitzer

Byrne selected 20 news photographs to represent a documentation of a sort of choreographed performance - a dance of politics. Images were enlarged to 17 x 24 inches and printed on newsprint paper in black and white.

Artists: Jose Caruci, Jim Gleason, David Handschuh, Harry Hamburg, Srdjan Ilic, Laura Pedrick, Joe Petrella, Humberto Pradera, Susan Regan, Andrew Savulich, Apichart Weerawong, Andrew Wong

Investigates the extension of art practice into public or non-traditional (art) spaces, using examples from Conceptual and Performances art projects and extending into contemporary works.

Artists: Jan Baracz, Brett Cook-Dizney, Rainer Ganahl, Ellen Harvey, Runa Islam, Johannes Kahrs, Philippe Meste, Dave McKenzie, Karin Sander, Günther Selichar, Accra Shepp, Oona Stern

Forty artists from around the world were invited to design a house in response to issues involving the representation of utopia.

Artists: Francis Alÿs, Stefan Bruggeman, Mariana Bunimov, Minerva Cuevas, Stan Douglas, José Gabriel Fernández, Alicia Framis, Carlos Garaicoa, Alexander Gerdel, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Jeanne Van Heeswijk, Jose Antonio Hernández-Diez, Proyecto Incidental, Gabriel Kuri, Atelier Van Lieshout, Diana López, Mauricio Lupini, Rita McBride, Carlos Julio Molina, Claudio Perna, Paul Ramirez-Jonas

An examination of artists who create simple machines not as artwork, but to assist them in making their work, using mechanical practices that were in existence long before photography or the computer.

Artists: Polly Apfelbaum, Torie Begg, Yvette Brackman, Ann Chu, Tim Clifford, Reed Danziger, Deborah Davidovits, Matt Harle, Klindt Houlberg, David Ireland, Richard Jackson, Micah Lexier, Gerhard Mayer, Kathleen McShane, Helen Mirra, Gay Outlaw, Roxy Paine, Joyce Pensato, Jack Pospisil, Richard Rezac, Tom Sachs, Joe Scanlan, Bob Seng, Michele Valerio, Allan Wexler

Looks at the individual ways in which creativity is directly and powerfully propelled in response to a life-altering moment, experience or event and explores the ways in which different media can be used to create highly personal auto-portraits while simultaneously providing a testament to our shared autobiography as human beings.

Artists: Greg Bordowitz, Ximena Cuevas, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman with David Isay of Sound Portraits Productions, Chris Sullivan, Magdalena Campos-Pons

Chinese Whispers focuses on different modes of communication techniques via such issues as the artist’s position within a system of specific values, language as such, misunderstand-ings, absurdity, irony, etc., all in light of an Eastern European context.

Artists: Kai Kaljo, Ivana Keser, Vlado Martek, Dalibor Martinis, Roman Ondak, Tomo Savic-Gecan, Mladen Stilinovic, Slaven Tolj, Goran Trbuljak, Sislej Xhafa

Explores how select artists reveal, defamiliarize, or create manifold language systems in and through different media, featuring artists who collide words and images into disarray only to reveal a structure and texture of particular language systems.

Artists: Janet Cohen, Andrea Ray, Kay Rosen, Mark Lombardi, JonMarc Edwards, Rie Hachiyanagi

Both artists study the human condition—Lucas Michael through the lens of a camera, Nobuhira Narumi through the eyes of a dog.

Artists: Nobuhira Narumi and Lucas Michael

Two projects that are a result of the artists' online encounters and interactions. Both investigate the creation and experience of simulated reality of the internet.

Artists: Alexander Vaindorf/Jenny Althoff and Kiki Seror

Work by six Colombian artists that reflects on the problems associated with the reception of a work of art in the absence of a "proper" context.

Artists: Juan Fernando Herron, Antonio Caro, José Alejandro Restrepo, Miguel Angel Rojas, Jesus Abad Colorado, Delcy Morelos

Features a group of artists living and practicing between two or more cultures and whose works investigate the intersections of autobiography, self-represenation and the other.

Artists: Berni Searles, Hassan Musa, Zineb Sedira, Olu Oguibe

A project developed through a seminar where participants developed two kinds of constructions: individual projections of New York City and a prefabricated structural system.

Coordination: Christiane Erharter Workshop: Yvonne P. Doderer
Participants: Angelika Bartl, Monika Blaschke, Pirmin Blum, Sandro Droschl, Christiane Erharter, Andreas Fogarasi, Ulrike Griessmayr, Kristina Haider, Andre Krammer, Stefan Malicky, Wolfgang May, Matthias Mayr, Wolfgang Meisinger, Yves Mettler, Matthias Meyer, Karl Spoerk, Martina Steckholzer, Gabi Sturm, Nikola Winkler

Like a chispa, a spark in Spanish, that ignites a fire, these three Latino artists have profoundly changed the way their culture and art is seen in their communities and beyond.

Artists: Cèsar Martìnez, Alfred J. Quiróz, Antonio Turok

Double Space
curated by A.S. Bessa
January 5 - February 5, 2000

Explores the ideas related to space in text, the architectural properties of writing, and the concept of text as a construction.

Artists: L. A. Angelmaker, Devon Dikeou, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jorge Pardo, Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Fred Sandback, Carolee Schneemann, Lily Van Der Stokker

On October 20, 1999, we found out that our next show would be postponed. We asked Charles Long to loan us a work of his choice. We asked the Paula Cooper Gallery to loan us a Donald Judd of their choice. Then we asked four writers to deal with this juxtaposition/situation.

Writers: Ingrid Schaffner, David Robbins, Carolee Thea, Dorothy Krasowski

The history of 291 Church Street, the building that houses apexart, is both typical of Tribeca loft buildings and unique in its historical usage by artists. This show presents work that addresses and reflects this history.

Artists: Arthur Cohen, Carrie Cooperider, Josiah McElhenny, Margaret Morgan, Repo History, Haim Steinbach, David Wells, Martha Wilson

A diverse selection of works articulates the vast networks that impel production, and the interactions that affect what is produced. Ultimately the constant collision and convergence of productive contexts affects what art is and what it can be.

Artists: Dennis Balk, Bernadette Corporation, ChanSchatz, Stephen Hendee, Gareth James, Daniel Pflumm

Artist: Erwin Redl

Artist: Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento

Artist: Jean Shin

Artist: Anthony James

During the last 30 years, a certain interest, in questions of failure and impossibility,divergent from the various Modernist explorations of such, has emerged on the art scene. The artists in "Arrested Ambition" willingly take on such questions and explore very personal and small-scale yet resonant examples of this anxiety.

Artists: Michael Smith, Art and Language, Sheila Pepe, Olaf Westphalen, Jenny Perlin

Exhibits the innovative work of Beijing based architect Yung Ho Chang created in response to the massive urban expansion in contemporary China. Also presents an installation that allows viewers to more directly experience the vision of his projects abroad and the ideals behind them.

An installation by Yung Ho Chang and Atelier FCJZ

When faced with the dilemmas of curating, a critic selects an artist whose work he is drawn to but does not understand. She in turn presents hybrid objects that the curator believes embody the high stakes bartending (the science of mixology) of artmaking.

An installation by Christine Siemens.

The title refers to the relativity and instability of scale and the linear, physical systems by which we gauge time, distance, space. Five artists engage this woozy immeasurability and home in on the soft spots between fact and memory, linearity and wishful thinking.

Artists: Mary Ellen Carroll, Heide Fasnacht, Kim Jones, Loren Madsen, Rebecca Quaytman

We are not avoiding the objects in this show; instead, they are avoiding the way we only see them as a mean to a human end. They refuse to be incorporated in our rational systems of classification and want to be seen, caressed and listened to.

Artists: Merijn Bolink, Mary Carlson, Jan Fabre, Ann Hamilton, Job Koelewijn Donald Lipski, Ann Messner, Cornelia Parker, Man Ray, Maria Roosen and David Tudor Merijn Bolink

Presents work along the themes of domesticity, femininity and the underbelly of potential madness in both, derived from the 1950 Joan Crawford film, "Harriet Craig," in which Crawford portrays a high-bourgeios woman who looks to have it all but ultimately collapses under the weight of her own neuroses and fears.

Artists: Alex Bag, John Boskovitch, Chivas Clem, Martha Rosler and Christopher Wool

An exhibition of projects by the germany-based journal "finger," a newsletter for contemporary cultural phenomena.

"finger" is a group of four German artists: Martin Brandt, Florian Haas, Martin Schmidl and Andeas Wolf

Conceived in regards to the shifting realities of life in the former USSR, the show presents eight artists whose work addresses realities from the recent past and offers various perspectives on the assimilation of time into consciousness and the expression of that process through art.

Artists: Nora Fisch, Leandro Katz, Ilya Kabakov, Oliver Nikolich, Michael Schwab, Ana Tiscornia, Guram Tsibakh

Artist: Monica Bonvicini

Artist: Erik Samakh

Artist: Gavin Wilson

Artist: Carey McCorkle

Condenses three artworks into a comprehensive image, which deals with the existential subjects of being human. The only artistic medium in all three contributions being real people, it tells the story of life and death and simultaneously illustrates that these subjects are often taboo, both in art and in life.

Artists: Tracey Emin, Noritoshi Hirakawa and Pierre Joseph

The notion of networks or circuits extend into public and private realms, touching on themes as diverse as surveillance, music and archeology. Works by six international artists use diverse means to explore the vast yet personal set of relationships that structure behavior and knowledge.

Artists: Mira Bernabeu, Heath Bunting, Daniel García Andujar, Juan Fernando Herrán, Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and Eulàlia Valldosera

Selections from the private collection of Collier Schorr. The curator/collector investigates the ways in which a collection defines and represents its maker.

Artists: Harry Callahan, Gregory Crewdson, Sue de Beer, Patrick Demarchelier, Mark Dion, John Dogg, Nicole Eisenman, Mitch Epstein, Tim Gardner, Felix-Gonzalez Torres, Gary Hume, Karen Kilimnik, Silvia Kolbowski, Fran Lebowitz, Mark Morrisroe, Daniel Oates, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Eric Weeks and Gary Winograd

A video essay uses primary footage to document the stories, challenges and acheivements of the women who, in the 1970s, attempted to transform the underlying tenets of fine art of fine art beyond terms dictated by a sexist ideology. Includes over 100 visual artists.

Artists: 90-minute video essay--over 100 artists

Looks to move beyond the binary terms of Abstract Expressionism and ask whether there are other structural principles for contemporary painting beyond the gesture and the grid. One proposal for an alternate structure is the human body in its contigent experiences of knowledge, memory, and perception.

Artists: Eve Aschheim, Bruce Conner, Elena del Rivero, Simon Frost, Mark Greenwold, Bill Jensen, Jasper Johns, Margrit Lewczuk, Ann Mikolowski, Giorgio Morandi, Catherine Murphy, Martin Noël, Blinky Palermo, Jürgen Partenheimer, Charles Seliger, Mark Tobey and Richard Tuttle

Oppenheim presents the work of a peer in the conceptual art movement, Howard Fried. Using film, installation, and performance, the work delves without hesitation into the deepest and darkest problems of art-making, constantly questioning and prodding the territory in which he worked.

Artist: Howard Fried

After modernism's disavowal of the referential and the narrative, contemporary art sees the return of narrative tropes and of the artist as raconteur. The works in the show illustrate some of the mulitude of ways in which artists are reinterpreting and restructuring literary and illusionistic devices.

Artists: Bonnie Collura, Aki Fujiyoshi, Anna Gaskell, Johnna MacArthur, Alix Pearlstein, Georgina Starr, Sergio Vega and Kara Walker

Borrowing the title phrase from Emily Dickinson, the exhibition presents work that blurs medium boundaries, the result of which is an understated and effortless ability to slowly reveal different dimensions existing within the pieces - metaphor, materiality, humor.

Artists: Ayse Erkman, Karin Sander, Roman Signer, Mikolaj Smoczynski and Ken Unsworth

Three artists whose work shares no immediate formal concerns but each invokes an "uninvited" presence, residual of a past event, or anticipating a future happening. It is this knowing and uninvited presence that merges the quotidien and the poetic.

Artists: Bill Barrette, Rico Espinet and Brian Wood