Primary Secondary: Volume 1 and 2
Jun 27, 2008, 9:00 pm–Aug 29, 2008, 1:00 pm
Offsite
Visit the gallery at 28 Holden Street, North Adams to view this exhibition. Part of Downstreet Art event in North Adams throughout the summer and fall.
Volume 1: june 26 – july 20
- Chip Allen
- Takeshi Arita
- Lexie Bouwsma
- Lacey Fekishazy
- Sara Heinemann
- Gabriel Hurrier
- Nick Kozak
- Roland Lusk
- Heather Macionus
- Jordan Starr-Bochicchio
Volume 2: july 31 – august 29
- Michael Benjamin
- Sachiko Cho
- Megan Dyer
- John Hogan
- Aran Jones
- Sam McCune
- Tomas Ramberg
- Nobuto Suga
Since March 2008 dozens of artists and drafts people have been collaborating at MASS MoCA to execute nearly 100 massive of art works for Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, opening at MASS MoCA on November 16, 2008. A major partnership between the Yale University Art Gallery, the Williams College Museum of Art, and MASS MoCA, this landmark installation surveys forty years of work by Sol LeWitt (1928–2007), widely considered one of the most influential artists of the last half century.
LeWitt - who wrote that “the idea is the machine that generates the art”— is regarded as one of the founders of Conceptual art. His wall drawing practice, begun in 1968, was considered especially radical, in part because this new form of drawing was purposely temporal and often executed not by LeWitt but rather by other artists and students whom he invited to assist him.
Twenty-four LeWitt trained professional drafts people (assisted by thirty-eight apprentices and intern students) are now working on the wall drawings at MASS MoCA in a 30,000 square foot building specifically renovated for this project. Many of these studio professionals make their own art independent from their work with the LeWitt studio, some of which will be presented in this gallery space over the course of two exhibitions, Primary Secondary Volumes 1 and 2
Covering a wide range of media and styles, the artists in both groupings begin with primary forms such as lines, grids and fields of color, all of which can be seen in LeWitt’s work. However, it is the secondary layer, of elements such as shifting forms, the use of unorthodox materials and the infusion of the figure that pushes the work of these artists’ off the grid and away from their “day job”.
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