Opening Reception:
January 28, 6-8 PM
Marlborough is pleased to announce two related group exhibitions including works spanning three decades. The downstairs galleries will feature larger scale works from the 1980s, which speak to the diversity and range of practices prevalent during that decade. The upstairs gallery will include a group of photo-based conceptual works from the 1960s and the 1970s.
The selection of works from the 1980s includes paintings and sculptures by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alice Aycock, Lynda Benglis, Werner Büttner, Ron Gorchov, Red Grooms, R. B. Kitaj, Larry Rivers, Keith Sonnier, and Joe Zucker. Sculptural wall works by Benglis (1984) and Gorchov (1983) offer a view of the post-minimalist painting practices prevalent in the 1980s, and Zucker’s Drifting Hulk of the Doomed Whaler from 1986 illustrates his unique take on the grid, reductive painting, and the image. Sonnier’s 1988 Wall Slash II and Aycock’s Of Things in the Sky: Fata Morgana from 1984 both employ neon, glass and industrial materials to create sculptures with a machinelike finish.
Abakanowicz’s 1987 sculpture War Games “Marrow Bone”, Buttner’s 1984 painting Shehu’s Death (Expensive Version), and Grooms’ 1989 gouache Passing by the K.G.B. all address the Cold War and the incipient violence and paranoia of the period. Rivers’ pastoral three-dimensional work from 1988, Reclining, Crouching, Sitting, Standing: Fragonard’s Garden, conflates a contemporary family group portrait with a Fragonard, providing a fresh take on the tradition of the commissioned portrait painting.
The second floor gallery includes photographic works from the 60s and 70s by Laurie Anderson, Robert Barry, Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Gordon Matta-Clark, Dennis Oppenheim, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Alexis Smith and William Wegman. This selection should help to provide an insight into the range of conceptual practices of the period including collage, photomontage, serial photography, and documentation of site specific works, actions, and performances.
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