Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, And More.On Collecting

by Gregory Green (Artist), Willie Coles (Artist), Alan Rath (Artist), Kay Rosen (Artist), Janine Antoni (Artist)

Overview

Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting examines the collecting impulse in its various incarnations, raising fundamental questions about why we collect and why we collect what we collect. Surprising and eccentric, this publication features three utterly different collections: Pictures (and other contemporary art objects) from the renowned Robert Shiffler Foundation in Ohio; Patents, a selection of the Smithsonian's collection of patent models submitted to the US Patent Office in the nineteenth century; and finally Monkeys, from a private New York-based collection of approximately 1,600 sock monkeys toys. Running the gamut from high art to the unmapped inspirational dregs of American culture, Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting draws on such diverse talents as Ingrid Schaffner—adjunct curator at ICA Philadelphia—and artist Arne Svenson, whose photographs of the sock monkeys combine the haunting and the beautiful. Also included are such artists as Janine Antoni, Willie Coles, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Marclay, Alan Rath, Jason Rhoades, Kay Rosen, Jessica Stockholder and Lisa Yuskavage, among many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780916365592
Publisher:	Independent Curators International (ICI)
Publication date:	02/02/2001
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	8.54(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Janine Antoni is a native of Freeport, Bahamas. She received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989 and has exhibited her work widely throughout the United States, including at the Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York; the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres was born in Cuba in 1957 and grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. His work has been the subject of several major solo exhibitions both during his life and after his death in 1996. His estate is represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York.

Christian Marclay was born in 1955 in San Rafael, California and was raised in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied at the Ecole Superieure d'Art Visuel prior to attending the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. He has lived in New York since 1980. His work has been shown and performed at museums all over the world, including the Hirshhorn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Saint Louis Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Since 1979 he has, in addition to his visual arts practice, performed and recorded musical pieces by mixing altered records on multiple turntables. As a musician he has collaborated with many other performers including Butch Morris, John Zorn and Sonic Youth.

Jason Rhoades was born in Newcastle, California, in 1965, and studied at the San Francisco Institute of the Arts and the University of California at Los Angeles, where he received his MFA. Since the early 1990s his work has been exhibited at the 1995 and1997 Whitney Biennials, the 1997 and 1999 Venice Biennials, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, among many other international galleries and museums.

Jessica Stockholder was born in 1959 in Seattle. Her work has been exhibited most recently in solo shows in Dusseldorf, Paris and New York. Since 1999, Stockholder has been the director of graduate studies in sculpture at Yale University.

Fred Wilson was born in the Bronx in 1954. The recipient of a 1999 MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, he has presented solo exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Wilson collaborated with UC Berkeley graduate students in art history, studio art and anthropology to create an exhibition working with the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology for an exhibition that traveled to museums and universities around the United States through 2004.

Lisa Yuskavage was born in Philadelphia in 1962. She studied at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University and the Yale School of Art. Her first solo museum exhibition was held at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, in 2001; solo gallery shows have been mounted at Greengrassi, London; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Studio Guenzani, Milan; and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, among others. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the 1999 Istanbul Biennial, the Saatchi Gallery, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and at Casey Kaplan, New York. She was also featured in the Whitney Biennial 2000 and in the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centeris Greater New York exhibition. She received a Tiffany Foundation grant in 1996 and a MacDowell Colony fellowship in 1994. The series Tit Heaven was shown in her first solo show, in 1992, at Elizabeth Koury Gallery in New York.