Susan Inglett Gallery
522 W 24th St
212.647.9111
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Stairway to Heaven at Susan Inglett Gallery
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June 9, 2010 – July 24, 2010
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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“As long-awaited retrospective surveys of 1970's California-based conceptual art go, Stairway to Heaven is actually quite a lively offering. Despite a certain amount of attention back in the day, a few higher-profile exhibitions in the intervening years, and the profound admiration of subsequent generations of west coast artists, the work of these three experimentally-minded mixed media mavericks remains largely unknown in wider east coast circles. Anyone interested in just how deep the roots of today's DIY, anti-object, interdisciplinary experientalism go would do well to take in this salient survey of old-school boat-rocking.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
Susan Inglett Gallery says:
Specific Object presents the work of a trio of artists that emerged from the fertile ground of Southern California art schools – McMahon from Pomona College in Claremont; Mullican and Welling from Cal Arts in Valencia. All three appeared shortly thereafter in New York joining a core group of artists labeled “The Pictures Generation.” The members formed a loose confederacy recently explored in the exhibition, The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Spring 2009.
The work selected here represents an important moment in the development of these artists as they began to stake out their respective territories and develop what became their mature work. While both Mullican's and Welling's work was widely exhibited from the 1980s onward, McMahon chose to diverge from the traditional path by becoming a comedian, a musician, and small town entrepreneur in Woodstock, NY, only to reemerge with the opening of the exhibition at the Met.
