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DiggMartha Wilson: Photo/Text Works 1971–1974
March 23, 2008- April 22, 2008
Reception: March 23, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Martha Wilson
Mitchell Algus Gallery
511 W 25th St Martha Wilson Posturing: Age Transformation |
Art Reviews of Martha Wilson: Photo/Text Works 1971–1974
| New York Times April 4, 2008 | Holland Cotter | " If I were to make a list of the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s — the real downtown, the then-sparsely settled west-side area between Canal Street and Battery Park — the conceptual artist and performer Martha Wilson would be on it. She came to the city in 1974 and within a few years opened her TriBeCa loft to the public as Franklin Furnace, a nonprofit documentary center, archive and exhibition space for artists’ books and ephemera that housed some of the most intriguing and fleeting work in town. Its premise: Time as a new art medium. Now, more than 30 years later, after nurturing and conserving the art of others, Ms. Wilson is having a solo show of her own. It’s her first, and it’s a gem. A pioneer in preserving art turns out to be a pioneer in creating it. ..." |
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