Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s
Sculpture Center
Long Island City
44 Purves Street, 718-361-1750
May 4 - July 28, 2008
Opening: Sunday, May 4, 4 - 6PM
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Alice Adams, Large Vault, 1975, Laminated wood and wood lath in eight sections, bolted together, 3’6’’ x 15” Background (left to right): Alice Aycock, Stairs (These Stairs Can Be Climbed), 1974/2008, Wood, 14’ 2” x 10’ x 14’ x 2”, Jackie Winsor, Coil Piece, 1969, Hemp, 8 ½” x 39” diameter, Michelle Stuart, Sayerville Strata Quartet, 1976, Earth from site, Sayerville, NJ (different strata), Four panels, 144” x 62”, each; approximately 144” x 280” overall, Jackie Winsor, Cement Sphere, 1971 Cement 18” diameter, Suzanne Harris Inhabitat, 1975/2008 Cardboard and metal 12’ x 3’ x 8’ . Courtesy of the artist.Alice Adams, Alice Aycock, Lynda Benglis, Agnes Denes, Jackie Ferrara, Suzanne Harris, Nancy Holt, Mary Miss, Michelle Stuart, Jackie Winsor
SculptureCenter is pleased to present Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s, an exhibition that focuses on work by women artists who made significant contributions to the development of sculptural practice in the 1970s. Utilizing an
abstract, formal language, the artists in Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers helped define the structural conventions of Land Art and Post-Minimalism, such as architectural scale, the use of mathematical systems, and a conceptual interest in the proportional relationships that exist between the human body and monumental works of art. The exhibition includes sculpture, models, photographs, drawings, video, and other forms of documentation, some of which has not been shown since its original exhibition. Curated by Catherine Morris.
