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EXCERPT<br />

Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection


EXCERPT<br />

Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection<br />

Barry X Ball<br />

Tamy Ben-Tor<br />

Huma Bhabha<br />

Glenn Brown<br />

Jennifer Cohen<br />

Benjamin Edwards<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

David Hammons<br />

Sarah Lucas<br />

Julie Mehretu<br />

Marilyn Minter<br />

Wangechi Mutu<br />

Tim Noble and Sue Webster<br />

Richard Prince<br />

Aïda Ruilova<br />

Laurie Simmons<br />

Rudolf Stingel<br />

Piotr Uklanski


Excerpt: Selections from the Collection of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn<br />

September 26, <strong>2008</strong> – January 4, 2009<br />

This catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Excerpt: Selections<br />

from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection, organized and presented at the Frances<br />

Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, and curated by Mary-Kay Lombino.<br />

ISBN # 978-0-9820606-0-5<br />

Designed by Francie Soosman<br />

Printed by Quality Printing Company, Pittsfield Massachusetts in an edition of 3,000 copies.<br />

Text © Vassar College, <strong>2008</strong>. Images © the artists.<br />

No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced, in whole or in part, without the<br />

permission of the publisher.<br />

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center<br />

Vassar College, Box 703<br />

124 Raymond Avenue<br />

Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0703<br />

Telephone 845 437 5632<br />

Fax 845 437 5955<br />

http://fllac.vassar.edu<br />

Contents<br />

Photo credits<br />

John Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

Paul Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

Ringo Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

George Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

John Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

Paul Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

Ringo Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

George Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

John Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

Paul Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

Ringo Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

George Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

John Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

Paul Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

Ringo Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

George Smith, page 2, 3, 8, 10<br />

Acknowledgments 5<br />

Director’s Foreword 6<br />

An Interview by Mary-Kay Lombino 8<br />

No.s 17<br />

Exhibition Checklist 68


Acknowledgments<br />

It is with great enthusiasm that The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College<br />

presents the exhibition Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from<br />

the Logan Collection the first exhibition that focuses exclusively on works on paper from<br />

this outstanding collection of the art of our time. We are honored to have the opportunity<br />

to work with Vicki and Kent Logan to bring this aspect of their work to the public and we<br />

are deeply indebted to them for sharing their collection as well as their time, energy, passion,<br />

and expertise at every step of the way. It is their vision, generosity, and commitment<br />

to supporting artists in whom they believe that allows us to bring this extraordinary artwork<br />

to our audience and to enrich the lives and educations of the students at Vassar<br />

College.<br />

While all of the loans for this exhibition originate from the Logan Collection,<br />

several works are fractional and promised gifts to the San Francisco Museum of Modern<br />

Art and the Denver Art Museum. We would like to thank Neal Benezra, Director of San<br />

Francisco Museum of Modern Art along with Kelly Parady, Assistant Registrar for her<br />

coordination of the loans and Lewis Sharp, Director of the Denver Art Museum with Jill<br />

Desmond, Assistant Curator and Lori Iliff, Registrar who both assisted in coordinating<br />

loans. Robyn Wiley, Collection Manager for the Logan Collection, provided valuable information<br />

and assistance with all aspects of the exhibition from its inception.<br />

Jeanne Greenberg Rohaty<br />

Standing in front of TK<br />

We are grateful to George Laws for his skillful design of all of the exhibition materials<br />

including this catalogue and to Janet Allison who coordinated the publication. We would<br />

also like to recognize the entire staff of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center for their support<br />

and dedication, especially Registrar Joann Potter, who expertly handled the formidable<br />

task of arranging the crating and shipping of the work.<br />

And finally, we would like to thanks the artists whose work is included in Out of Shape for<br />

their remarkable artworks and insightful contributions to contemporary culture.<br />

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Director’s Foreword<br />

When the Vassar College Art Gallery first opened its doors in the mid-nineteenth century,<br />

its collection was primarily composed of contemporary art—admittedly academic painting<br />

before there was really such a thing as the avant-garde, but contemporary nonetheless.<br />

Over the ensuing 140 years, what was once contemporary grew to be historical and Vassar’s<br />

curriculum in the history of art grew accordingly. However, all along the way the Vassar<br />

academic emphasis on “going to the source,” included many art instructors’ insistence that<br />

their students be aware of contemporary artistic movements. Visits of contemporary artists to<br />

campus whether Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt, or Jenny Holzer have brought<br />

life to the teaching of art as an ever-evolving historical discipline rooted in the present. At<br />

what is now the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, we have benefited over the years from<br />

Vassar graduates’ pursuit of modern art as collectors and, eventually, donors to the collection.<br />

Paintings in our collection by Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko, for<br />

example, were acquired by their donors while the artists, themselves were still young or in<br />

mid-career and before they made their permanent impact on the history of art.<br />

Since we are primarily an institution that collects art that can be interpreted historically for<br />

our students, it is only recently in this museum’s history that we have had the luxury of<br />

having a curator on staff who is a specialist about the art of today. Mary-Kay Lombino,<br />

who joined the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center in the autumn of 2005, has played an<br />

important role in focusing the institution’s attention on the important art movements of the<br />

present while serving as a resource for alumni who are engaged in the collecting of contemporary<br />

art. It is self-evident that we would not be able to mount the present exhibition Out<br />

of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection without<br />

the cooperation of Vicki Logan, Vassar class of 1968 and her husband Kent Logan. But<br />

it is equally true that, had we wished to undertake this project earlier, the curatorial expertise<br />

would not have been in place to bring it to fruition.<br />

tion that has rigorously maintained standards. Hence, the results are far more than a list of<br />

randomly selected brand-name trophies snagged from the intensely competitive contemporary<br />

art market. It is, instead, a rigorously vetted visual and intellectual exercise that has<br />

taken, at times, considerable risks but has often charted exciting new territories. Their forays<br />

into the new generation of British and Chinese artists, for example, have yielded important<br />

results in exposing a greater public to these vibrant contemporary centers. The Logans have<br />

had the courage to rely on their instincts in forming their collection. In the museum world,<br />

they are known as “activist” collectors who insist that their involvement actually yields a<br />

contribution to the collective cultural consciousness. We are very grateful to both of them for<br />

allowing us to celebrate their accomplishments and share a portion of the results with our<br />

students and faculty.<br />

James Mundy<br />

The Anne Hendricks Bass Director<br />

The Logan Collection is rightly world famous. It has been the focus of an intelligent and<br />

passionate pair of collectors who have collaborated from the outset on assembling a collec-<br />

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7


The Pleasure of Looking<br />

an interview with Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn by Mary-Kay Lombino<br />

Art advisor, curator, and collector Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn founded Salon 94 in the first<br />

floor of her Manhattan home in 2002, to be an experimental project space for emerging<br />

and mid-career contemporary artists. Much of her own collection can be found on display<br />

just upstairs, in her family’s living space. The works in her private collection reflect a personal<br />

connection to the artists she supports, and reveals how her passion for art permeates both<br />

her private and professional life. While the work shows evidence of a diverse set of social,<br />

political, ethnic, and intergenerational interests, it is bound together in this distinguished<br />

collection, which illustrates the personal preferences of an experienced collector with a<br />

well-trained eye, but also reveals a rare intimacy and deep understanding of the power<br />

of the art of our time.<br />

MKL What were your first memorable art experiences as a child?<br />

JGR In 1970, a truck pulled up to our house, in suburban St. Louis, and unloaded a large<br />

crate, in it a Morris Louis painting. Squeezed into our living room—a small cozy space<br />

with over stuffed madras couches, walled with taxidermy animal heads, this painting was<br />

an alien landed. My mother looked at this veiled monster, and announced that either the<br />

Florine Stettheimer<br />

TK<br />

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house or the painting had to go. The following day, my father went out and bought an<br />

enormous Tudor house.<br />

He hired architectural students at Washington University to renovate—they built thick sheet<br />

walls to attach to the historic wood panels for hanging. It was a house bought for art,<br />

sparingly outfitted with just the essentials. Keeping with the minimalist tenets of the time,<br />

the walls were gallery white. Yet the house itself, built after the 1904 worlds fair, had its<br />

own nature—it was detailed ornately with carved lions on its grand stairwell (the original<br />

owner’s name was Lionberger Davis), coiffured ceilings and a sunroom with leaded glass<br />

windows. The pairing of my parents emerging collection and this house gave me a solid<br />

sense that art pulls one out of the domestic. Yet, art always needs a lot of help … and the<br />

character of a place allowed the art to breathe in a dynamic way.<br />

In order to collect full time, my father became an art dealer in 1971. He showed and collected<br />

the artists of his generation: Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol followed by Richard Serra,<br />

Donald Judd and Dan Flavin. In 1975, Warhol sent The Greenberg Gallery a role of purple<br />

Mao wallpaper for his upcoming exhibit there. My father brought it home and used it to<br />

wallpaper the powder room. During the evening’s celebrations, a shy wigged Warhol hung<br />

out in this bathroom, signing Campbell’s Soup cans nicked from our pantry by my parents’<br />

friends. I stood below him—and when he had a break he would doodle bananas on a napkin<br />

for me. It was finally at Vassar that I saw the album cover of the Velvet Underground.<br />

My two sisters and I each selected a work of art for our rooms—I chose a painting by John<br />

Tuttle (a now obscure artist)—a shaped canvas with the word ART scripted in the center<br />

and dollar signs doodled in the four corners. Its symbolism clearly foreshadows my life in<br />

art and commerce.<br />

MKL As a student at Vassar, you studied Art History. Is there anything in particular about<br />

your college education that informs your relationship with art today?<br />

Stettheimer Salon Recreation<br />

TK<br />

JGR The museum was always a great walk-through. There, I discovered the Florine<br />

Stettheimer who became the inspiration for an exhibition I mounted years later (199-) in<br />

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the green room of the Gramercy Park Fair, entitled TK. I was fascinated with the pre-war<br />

attitudes of the Stettheimer sisters and their famed salon at Alwyn Court. They represented<br />

great contradictions from frivolous to the serious—Duchamp taught the heiresses French<br />

while they sat for manicures; yet each were devoted to her own discipline (writer, painter,<br />

dollhouse maker). The salon was occasion for Florrine to dramatically unveil her paintings,<br />

revealing her fantastic paintings of and to her artistic friends. Yet, her ultimate place as<br />

hostess unnerved me. We recreated her salon in spirit—combining works by Warhol, Jeff<br />

Koons and a then emerging Elizabeth Peyton, and borrowed from Columbia University<br />

some of Stettheimer’s greatest paintings—including her self-portrait as the nude Olympia.<br />

Imitating her aesthetic, we covered the walls with cellophane, and Virgil Thomas was<br />

played on the piano.<br />

MKL How did you begin collecting?<br />

JGR I collected what my parents did not. It started with ceramics (my father, a hard core<br />

minimalist, would have never purchased what he stills consider to be tchotki) —and moved<br />

onto artists of my generation. Whenever I make money, it goes towards an art purchase. I<br />

had a slow start and I regret not having starting earlier. Joe Pulitzer, Jr. once described to<br />

me his connoisseur classes at Harvard, where the art history professor would bring in each<br />

week an actual work of art to study—Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Rodin, Èdouard Manet,<br />

and so on. Often the young men in the class, many heirs to great fortunes, would track<br />

down and buy the artworks. Imagine, in 1936, as a Harvard undergraduate, he bought<br />

Amedeo Modigliani’s Elvira Resting at a Table! That is a good beginning.<br />

MKL What attracted you to contemporary art?<br />

JGR I like being in dialogue with artists. Many are among my close friends. Gregory<br />

Crewdson, whom I met shortly after moving to New York in 1990, and I imagined a show<br />

called Suburbia while chatting about Steven Spielberg movies and our favorite short story,<br />

The Swimmer by John Cheever. And, while this project was never realized, in 1999 we<br />

ultimately co-curated Another Girl/Another Planet, which introduced young narrative<br />

photography. The show grew from comparing studio visits—Gregory teaching at Yale,<br />

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TK<br />

and me in New York and London. I continue to work with Katy Grannan and Malerie<br />

Marder, whose work was featured. Inspired by this young work, Gregory later began to<br />

place figures in his own landscape photographs.<br />

MKL What kinds of qualities do you look for in an artwork that you are considering for<br />

purchase?<br />

JGR An element of surprise. The works must have beauty, concept, and the pleasure of<br />

looking. I also seek out raw talent in an artist.<br />

MKL Once you begin collecting a particular artist’s work, do you form a bond to that<br />

artist, or do you feel a certain commitment to continuing to support him or her?<br />

JGR It is a luxury to support an artist throughout his or her career. As a patron of young<br />

artists, I often buy early on, yet I am priced out of their market soon thereafter. I have<br />

made a commitment to a handful of artists, whom I will continue to support. I will keep<br />

working to afford their work.<br />

Katy Grannan makes a portrait of our children every year that we use as our signature<br />

holiday card. We also collect her work in depth.<br />

MKL As you live with an artwork over a long period, how does your relationship with that<br />

artwork evolve with time?<br />

JGR At home, I regularly move artworks around, playing with their context in relation to<br />

other works. Likewise, artwork in this exhibition and its Vassar installation will acquire<br />

new meaning. The Richard Prince car hood shown next to a Mark Rothko painting will<br />

look classical and monastic—yet at home, next to an Adam McEwen gum painting and a<br />

Takashi Murakami painting—it looks dangerous, Pop, and trashy. Sometimes it takes years<br />

for a work to look classic—with other works it happens overnight. When I bought Sara<br />

Lucas’ Notorious Dream, I instantly thought about it in relation to Hans Bellmer and to<br />

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Pablo Picasso portraits of seated woman—yet in our living room—these are mere passing<br />

historical notations to a deeply radical work.<br />

MKL Are there any works in your collection that are difficult to live with?<br />

JGR Yes, Reneke Diekstre New Mothers photographs. These fill everyone with discomfort—<br />

especially men. When they were hung in our living room, even seasoned curators turned<br />

their backs on it. These are now a promised gift to The Museum of Modern Art.<br />

MKL As a patron and producer of many artists’ projects, how do you see your role in the<br />

artistic vision of an artist?<br />

JGR I like to produce projects that are performative in nature. I am planning with Art<br />

Production Fund a Sylvie Fleury Fluxus Symphony at The Armory Show this February.<br />

Artists often find Salon 94 to be a safe place to make new work. Perhaps because it is just<br />

off the grid enough that it allows them to experiment. Wangechi Mutu made her first largescale<br />

installation there, and for the past several years Tamy Ben-Tor has used it as a space<br />

to develop her characters. These projects are non-commercial in nature.<br />

MKL I noticed that some of the works in your collection are very personal in subject matter.<br />

Some examples are the Katy Grannan photographs and the Barry X Ball portrait of you.<br />

Are these commissioned works?<br />

JGR Yes, my husband, commissioned several artists to make works for me as a fourtieth<br />

birthday gift. He asked artists with whom I have worked in the past.<br />

MKL Are there any artworks that you wish you had bought, but are no longer available?<br />

JGR Many! While they are seemingly in opposite camps—the two artists who have influenced<br />

me most are David Hammons and Jeff Koons. I am sorry that I do not own more of<br />

their works. I have been lucky, as many have passed through my hands as a dealer.<br />

New Mothers<br />

TK<br />

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The Collection<br />

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No. 1<br />

Barry X Ball<br />

The artist, taking the life-cast head of his New York gallerist as a jumping-off point, in<br />

a concerted effort to reinvigorate the sub-genre of romantic portrait sculpture, has here<br />

conjoined his signature fever-pitch execution intensity and a newfound conceptual tenderness.<br />

Realized as a mirror-image of the subject, at 85% scale, in an exceptional specimen of<br />

dramatically-figured, exuberantly- colored translucent onyx, exhibiting a layered surface<br />

suffused with a ‘sfumato’ overlay of foliate relief and coincident miniscule diagonal/radial<br />

flutes, the stony surrogate captures, in soft Galatean contravention of its obdurate materiality,<br />

a moment of poignant reverie.The artist-designed integral / modular base, it’s tapering<br />

parabolic sweep flowing into the sculpture’s glass-polished flute stem (which, in turn,<br />

terminates in a silhouetted arboreal fringe), conceived in parallel with the sculpture, preciselyfabricated<br />

in stainless steel, limestone, acrylic-spray-lacquered aluminum and wood (and a<br />

variety of subsidiary materials) by a studio-coordinated consortium of disparate fabricators,<br />

is reminiscent, alternately, of traditional ‘socles’ and mid-20th-century Modernist furniture<br />

pedestals. The resultant deceptively-diminutive ensemble, created with deep reverence for<br />

and specific focus on the history of sculpture, makes an expansive case for the critical<br />

reconsideration of prevailing contemporary practice, while simultaneously probing both<br />

the subject’s psychology and her complex relationship to the artist, 2007-<strong>2008</strong><br />

Mexican Onyx<br />

20<br />

21


No. 2<br />

Tamy Ben-Tor<br />

Exotica, The Rat and The<br />

Liberal, 2005<br />

No. 3<br />

Tamy Ben-Tor<br />

Exotica, The Rat and<br />

The Liberal, 2005<br />

22<br />

23


No. 5<br />

Tamy Ben-Tor<br />

The Tea Lover, year<br />

24<br />

25


No. 8<br />

Glenn Brown<br />

Holy Virgin, 2003<br />

No. 7<br />

Huma Bhabha<br />

Sleeper, 2005<br />

26<br />

27


No. 9<br />

Jennifer Cohen<br />

Grey Line in Three Parts (i), <strong>2008</strong><br />

28


No. 10<br />

Benjamin Edwards<br />

Decoherence, 2001<br />

31


grannan<br />

grannan<br />

No. 11<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

Title TBA, 1999<br />

No. 12<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

Alexander Kay Rohatyn, November 2000, 2000<br />

32<br />

33


grannan<br />

grannan<br />

No. 13<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

Alexander Kay Rohatyn, YMCA, December 2001, 2001<br />

No. 14<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

Title TBA, 2002<br />

34<br />

35


grannan<br />

grannan<br />

No. 15<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

Alexander Kay and Colette Fay Rohatyn, December 2003, 2003<br />

No. 16<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

Alexander Kay and Colette Fay Rohatyn, November 2004, 2004<br />

36<br />

37


grannan<br />

grannan<br />

No. 17<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

Alexander Kay, Colette Fay and Clara Michele Rohatyn, November 2005, 2005<br />

No. 18<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

Alexander Kay, Colette Fay and Clara Michele Rohatyn, November 2007, 2007<br />

38<br />

39


No. 19<br />

David Hammons<br />

Hair Relaxer, 2001<br />

No. 20<br />

David Hammons<br />

Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds, 1974<br />

40<br />

41


No. 21<br />

David Hammons<br />

Flight Fantasy, 1995<br />

42<br />

43


No. 23<br />

Sarah Lucas<br />

Stars at a Glance, 2007<br />

No. 22<br />

Sarah Lucas<br />

The Notorious Dream, 2004<br />

45


No. 24<br />

Julie Mehretu<br />

Dispersion, 2002<br />

46<br />

47


No. 25<br />

Julie Mehretu<br />

Excerpt (molotov cocktail), 2003<br />

No. 26<br />

Julie Mehretu<br />

Excerpt (riot), 2003<br />

48<br />

49


No. 28<br />

Marilyn Minter<br />

Nose Drops, 2007<br />

No. 27<br />

Marilyn Minter<br />

Glazed, 2006<br />

50<br />

51


No. 30<br />

Wangechi Mutu<br />

People in glass towers should not imagine us<br />

No. 29<br />

Wangechi Mutu<br />

The Mare, 2007<br />

53


No. 31<br />

Tim Noble and Sue Webster<br />

Twin Suicide, 2005<br />

54


No. 32<br />

Richard Prince<br />

Untitled (de Kooning), 2005<br />

No. 33<br />

Richard Prince<br />

Untitled (de Kooning), 2005<br />

56<br />

57


No. 34<br />

Richard Prince<br />

Untitled, <strong>2008</strong><br />

58<br />

59


No. 37<br />

Aïda Ruilova<br />

Alright, year<br />

No. 39<br />

Aïda Ruilova<br />

Alright, year<br />

No. 38<br />

Aïda Ruilova<br />

Alright, year<br />

60<br />

61


No. 36<br />

Aïda Ruilova<br />

Life Like, 2005<br />

No. 36<br />

Aïda Ruilova<br />

Cello, TK<br />

62<br />

63


No. 40<br />

Laurie Simmons<br />

The Music of Regret, 2006<br />

No. 40<br />

Laurie Simmons<br />

The Music of Regret, 2006<br />

64<br />

65


No. 40<br />

Laurie Simmons<br />

The Music of Regret, 2006<br />

66<br />

67


No. 42<br />

Rudolf Stingel<br />

Untitled (After Sam), 2005<br />

No. 41<br />

Rudolf Stingel<br />

Untitled, 1989<br />

68<br />

69


No. 43<br />

Piotr Uklanski<br />

The Nazis, 1999 (set B)<br />

70<br />

71


No. 43<br />

Piotr Uklanski<br />

The Nazis (Details), 1999 (set B)<br />

72 73


No. 44<br />

Piotr Uklanski<br />

Untitled (Carotid Artery), 2007<br />

74<br />

75


Exhibition checklist<br />

Dimensions are given in inches, height preceding width,<br />

preceding depth. All works are from the collection of<br />

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn unless otherwise indicated.<br />

Barry X Ball<br />

(b. 1955 Pasadena, California; lives in New York)<br />

1. The artist, taking the life-cast head of his New York<br />

gallerist as a jumping-off point, in a concerted effort to<br />

reinvigorate the sub-genre of romantic portrait sculpture,<br />

has here conjoined his signature fever-pitch execution<br />

intensity and a newfound conceptual tenderness. Realized<br />

as a mirror-image of the subject, at 85% scale, in an<br />

exceptional specimen of dramatically-figured, exuberantlycolored<br />

translucent onyx, exhibiting a layered surface<br />

suffused with a ‘sfumato’ overlay of foliate relief and<br />

coincident miniscule diagonal / radial flutes, the stony<br />

surrogate captures, in soft Galatean contravention of its<br />

obdurate materiality, a moment of poignant reverie.The<br />

artist-designed integral / modular base, it’s tapering<br />

parabolic sweep flowing into the sculpture’s glass-polished<br />

flute stem (which, in turn, terminates in a silhouetted<br />

arboreal fringe), conceived in parallel with the sculpture,<br />

precisely-fabricated in stainless steel, limestone, acrylicspray-lacquered<br />

aluminum and wood (and a variety of<br />

subsidiary materials) by a studio-coordinated consortium<br />

of disparate fabricators, is reminiscent, alternately, of<br />

traditional ‘socles’ and mid-20th-century Modernist furniture<br />

pedestals. The resultant deceptively-diminutive ensemble,<br />

created with deep reverence for and specific focus on the<br />

history of sculpture, makes an expansive case for the critical<br />

reconsideration of prevailing contemporary practice, while<br />

simultaneously probing both the subject’s psychology and<br />

her complex relationship to the artist, 2007-<strong>2008</strong><br />

Mexican Onyx<br />

13 3/8 x 6 3/8 x 7 1/8 in.<br />

Tamy Ben-Tor<br />

(b. 1975 Jerusalem, Israel; lives in New York)<br />

2. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

3. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

4. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

5. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

6. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

Huma Bhabha<br />

(b. 1962 Karachi, Pakistan; lives in Poughkeepsie, New York)<br />

7. Sleeper, 2005<br />

Mixed media<br />

23 2/3 x 18 x 75<br />

Glenn Brown<br />

(b. 1966 Hexham, Northumerland, England;<br />

lives in London)<br />

8. Holy Virgin, 2003<br />

Oil on panel<br />

44 7/8 x 30 1/8<br />

Jennifer Cohen<br />

(b. YEAR PLACE; lives in Brooklyn, New York)<br />

9. Grey Line in Three Parts (i), <strong>2008</strong><br />

Wood, cellucly, cement, glue, leather shoe, fabric<br />

36 x 20 x 12 ?<br />

Benjamin Edwards<br />

(b. 1970 Iowa City, Iowa; lives in Washington, DC)<br />

10. Decoherence, 2001<br />

Acrylic, texture mediums, foam, spray paint<br />

96 x 144<br />

Katy Grannan<br />

(b. 1969 Arlington, Massachusetts; lives in San Francisco and<br />

New York)<br />

11. Alexander Kay Rohatyn, November 2000, 2000<br />

C-print<br />

16 x 11<br />

12. Alexander Kay Rohatyn, YMCA, December 2001, 2001<br />

C-print<br />

16 x 11<br />

13. Title TBA, 2002<br />

C-print<br />

16 x 11<br />

14. Alexander Kay and Colette Fay Rohatyn,<br />

December 2003, 2003<br />

C-print<br />

16 x 11<br />

15. Alexander Kay and Colette Fay Rohatyn,<br />

November 2004, 2004<br />

C-print<br />

11 x 16<br />

16. Alexander Kay, Colette Fay and Clara Michele Rohatyn,<br />

November 2005, 2005<br />

C-print<br />

11 x 16<br />

17. Title TBA, 2006<br />

C-print<br />

11 x 16<br />

18. Alexander Kay, Colette Fay and Clara Michele Rohatyn,<br />

November 2007, 2007<br />

C-print<br />

11 x 16<br />

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David Hammons<br />

(b. 1943 Springfield, Illinois; lives in New York)<br />

19. Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds, 1974<br />

Body print on paper<br />

10 ? x 13<br />

20. Flight Fantasy, 1995<br />

Paint on wall, heavy metal wire hoops,<br />

human hair, crystals, netting<br />

144 x 96<br />

21. Hair Relaxer, 2001<br />

Chaise lounge, hair<br />

25 x 65 x 30<br />

Sarah Lucas<br />

(b. 1962 London; lives in London)<br />

22. The Notorious Dream, 2004<br />

Natural tights, stockings, chair, kapok wire,<br />

spam, helmet<br />

37 3/8 x 38 x 40<br />

23. Stars at a Glance, 2007<br />

Concrete shoes, bra, football, cigarettes<br />

10 2/3 x 13 x 10 2/3<br />

Julie Mehretu<br />

(b. 1970 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; lives in New York)<br />

24. Dispersion, 2002<br />

Ink and acrylic on canvas<br />

90 x144<br />

25. Excerpt (molotov cocktail), 2003<br />

Ink and acrylic on canvas<br />

32 x 54<br />

26. Excerpt (riot), 2003<br />

Ink and acrylic on canvas<br />

32 x 54<br />

Marilyn Minter<br />

(b. 1948 Shreveport, Louisiana; lives in New York)<br />

27. Nose Drops, 2007<br />

Enamel on metal<br />

53 x 35<br />

28. Glazed, 2006<br />

Enamel on metal<br />

96 x 60<br />

Wangechi Mutu<br />

(b. 1972 Nairobi, Kenya; lives in New York)<br />

29. The Mare, 2007<br />

Mixed media on Mylar<br />

85 x 60<br />

30. People in glass towers should not imagine us<br />

Ink, acrylic, glitter and collage on watercolor paper<br />

51 x 72<br />

Tim Noble and Sue Webster<br />

(b. 1966 Stroud, England; lives in London)<br />

(b. 1967 Leicester, England; lives in London)<br />

31. Twin Suicide, 2005<br />

Welded scrap metal, light projectors<br />

Tall tower 184 ? x 21 ? x 59 ?<br />

Short tower 85 ? x 14 ? x 64 ?<br />

Richard Prince<br />

(b. 1949 Panama; lives in New York)<br />

32. Untitled (de Kooning), 2005<br />

Collage and graphite on paper<br />

22 ? x 35 1/8<br />

33. Untitled (de Kooning), 2005<br />

Collage and graphite on paper<br />

22 1/4 x 27 ?<br />

34. Untitled, <strong>2008</strong><br />

Steel, wood, acrylic, Bondo<br />

66 x 55 x 6<br />

Aïda Ruilova<br />

(b. 1974 Wheeling, West Virginia; lives in New York)<br />

35. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

36. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

37. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

38. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

39. Title, year<br />

Medium<br />

duration<br />

Laurie Simmons<br />

(b. 1949 Long Island, New York; lives in New York)<br />

40. The Music of Regret, 2006<br />

35-millimeter film transferred to DVD; edition of 5<br />

44 minutes 14 seconds<br />

Rudolf Stingel<br />

(b. 1956 Merano, Italy; lives in New York)<br />

41. Untitled, 1989<br />

Oil on canvas<br />

67 x 47 1/4<br />

42. Untitled (After Sam), 2005<br />

Oil on canvas<br />

15 x 20 ?<br />

Piotr Uklanski<br />

(b. Warsaw, Poland 1968; lives in New York and Warsaw)<br />

43. The Nazis, 1999 (set B)<br />

41 color coupler prints mounted on Sintra, ed. 2/10<br />

13 ? x 10 each; 13 ? x 403 ? overall<br />

44. Untitled (Carotid Artery), 2007<br />

Epoxy resin on canvas<br />

45 x 60 4/5<br />

NOTE<br />

The selection of video works by Tamy Ben-Tor and Aïda<br />

Ruilova are displayed on a flat screen on the<br />

second floor landing.<br />

The Music of Regret, a film by Laurie Simmons will be<br />

screened several times during the run of the exhibition.<br />

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