Witkin’s work investigates systems and structures that shape contemporary life and experiences. His artistic practice blurs the boundaries and roles of art. He is a conceptual artist that focuses on language and how we perceive the world and objects around us. Much of Witkin’s work could easily be confused with the elements populating our everyday lives, yet would live on as visible alterations in and out of context. His combination of photographic images and text asks the viewer to consider not just the ways in which language shapes things, but also how it can be codified into many meanings.
Witkin’s education occurred, academically, primarily at Wesleyan University (undergrad) and Tufts University (grad). Exhibition experiences have happened at museums such as Currier Museum of Art, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as at galleries such as Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston, Theodore:Art in New York and James Harris Gallery in Seattle. Works are in the collections of the DeCordova, ICA, Boston, MFA, Boston and MFA, Houston. He has executed site-responsive works in locations as diverse as Big Bend National Park, Texas, Damascus, Syria, Naples, Italy, and a long-term project is in the works in northern New Hampshire. This summer, works of his are on view in groups shows at the Flag Foundation in New York and at Concord Art in Massachusetts. A large solo exhibition of his works at the University of New Hampshire’s Museum of Art will open in January, 2018. In addition, he is partner and director of Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston and has served as the editor of the Sol LeWitt Catalogue Raisonné of Prints and is the editor of the is the editor of the Mel Bochner Catalogue Raisonné of Prints.
ten frames, 23 full mats, 11 mats with pre-cut openings, one pile of clippings ‘in context’ (i.e. with captions, other info, full articles, etc), one pile of clippings ‘out of context’ (i.e. no captions, incomplete info) and one pile of clippings that have ‘errors’ (i.e. in the commercial printing process of magazines, newspapers, etc, inconsistent printing happens) on ApplyPly wood and square drive screws
9 ” x 76” x 16”
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two magnifying glasses, two pieces of candy, two mirrors, one present, wrapped in craft paper and sealed with drafting tape, one empty metal frame and accompanying custom-cut matboard, one pair of safety glasses, one glass jar with coins, one pencil sharpener, one spool of thread, one wine bottle, one compass, one watch, assorted unframed drawings, sketches, plans, writings and newspaper clippings, assorted pods, plastics, metals, rocks and fabrics, assorted photographs (some mounted on cintra), assorted drafting tools and supplies, a number of boxes with numerous drawings, tickets, clippings and other small papers, selected rolls of adhesive tape, several electrical diagrams, several rubbed bands, various unaltered found papers, some plumbing elements, collected found objects, baltic birch plywood and stainless steel square-head screws, stained papers, foamcore, matboard, portfolios & plexiglas, among other materials that will be altered, rearranged, added and/or removed periodically
36 x 72 x 32 inches
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approximately 54 groupings (groups of two, three and four) in assorted media on table 31″ x 96″ x 56″
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approximately 54 groupings (groups of two, three and four) in assorted media on table
31″ x 96″ x 56″
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light-jet photograph, framed
26 3/8” x 20 ½”
Edition of 3
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two hundred and ten stacked wood frames with glass or plastic glazing, each containing a Polaroid photograph, c-print photograph, lambda photograph, light-jet photograph, collage, newspaper clipping, magazine clipping, drawing, etching, silkscreen, and/or lithograph, twenty-one stacks of groupings of 8.5 x 11 inch paper, with a total of six hundred and one pieces of paper, each stack having one object placed on top, each object being bone, rubber, metal, paper, stone and/or plaster, four chairs of Baltic Birch plywood and stainless steel square drive screws and one table of Baltic Birch plywood and stainless steel square drive screws, among other materials
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two hundred and ten stacked wood frames with glass or plastic glazing, each containing a Polaroid photograph, c-print photograph, lambda photograph, light-jet photograph, collage, newspaper clipping, magazine clipping, drawing, etching, silkscreen, and/or lithograph, twenty-one stacks of groupings of 8.5 x 11 inch paper, with a total of six hundred and one pieces of paper, each stack having one object placed on top, each object being bone, rubber, metal, paper, stone and/or plaster, four chairs of Baltic Birch plywood and stainless steel square drive screws and one table of Baltic Birch plywood and stainless steel square drive screws, among other materials
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newspaper clippings, shrinkwrap, museum board, frame
12 ¾” x 17 ½”
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newspaper clippings, shrinkwrap, museum board, frame
13 ¾” x 17 ½”
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woven and dyed cotton on pine stretcher
16 ¼” x 76”
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White cotton T-shirts, baltic birtch plywood, found metal furnature
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Foregroud: ApplyPly wood and square drive screws in two units of four, Each unit an edition of 25 Farground: three framed found photographs, one framed newspaper clipping on ApplePly wood and square drive screws
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Foreground: ApplyPly wood and square drive screws in two units of four, Each unit an edition of 25 Farground: ten frames, 23 full mats, 11 mats with pre-cut openings, one pile of clippings ‘in context’ (i.e. with captions, other info, full articles, etc), one pile of clippings ‘out of context’ (i.e. no captions, incomplete info) and one pile of clippings that have ‘errors’ (i.e. in the commercial printing process of magazines, newspapers, etc, inconsistent printing happens) on ApplyPly wood and square drive screws
32” x 16” x 16” and 9” x 76” x 16”
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approximately forty white dress shirts, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws
32 x 32 x 16 inches
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Foreground: two black paperboard boxes, within each is a separate group of s imilarly categorizable papers paper clipped together, two laser prints on 100# paper, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws Farground Left: approximately fifty laser prints on 100# paper, twenty-eight versions of the song, “My Way”, ten cord nails, four light-jet photographs on Fuji Crystal paper, artificial and natural objects in nine different groupings, within which each is selection of potentially similarly categorizable objects, one speaker, one receiver, speaker wire, one power cord, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws Farground Right: three different books, three laser prints on 100# paper, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws
Dimensions vary
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two black paperboard boxes, within each is a separate group of similarly categorizable papers paper clipped together, two laser prints on 100# paper, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws
installation dimensions vary one element is 32 x 32 x 32 inches two elements are 32 x 16 x 16 inches each
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This exhibition includes text-based works, graphic elements, woven fabrics and collages of newspaper photographs that collectively blur the systematic with the haphazard in which meaning is layered and elusive. On view January 25 – March 31, 2018.
three different books, three laser prints on 100# paper, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws
dimensions variable
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approximately fifty laser prints on 100# paper, twenty-eight versions of the song, "My Way", ten cord nails, four light-jet photographs on Fuji Crystal paper, artificial and natural objects in nine different groupings, within which each is selection of potentially similarly categorizable objects, one speaker, one receiver, speaker wire, one power cord, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws
30" x 64" x 16"
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two tapestry nails, two light-jet photographs on Fuji Crystal paper, each framed in an ash wood frame with eight-ply matboard, plexiglas and aluminum hardware, one newspaper clipping in a plastic sleeve, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws
20" x 96" x 3
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six light-jet photographs on Fuji Crystal paper in four differently sized maple frames with lacquer paint, plexiglas and aluminum hardware installation dimensions vary
23" x 22" each
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light-jet photograph of ten clippings from three newspapers printed on January 7, 2011, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws
32 x 32 x 16 inches
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White cotton T-shirts, baltic birtch plywood, found metal furnature
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ten frames, 23 full mats, 11 mats with pre-cut openings, one pile of clippings ‘in context’ (i.e. with captions, other info, full articles, etc), one pile of clippings ‘out of context’ (i.e. no captions, incomplete info) and one pile of clippings that have ‘errors’ (i.e. in the commercial printing process of magazines, newspapers, etc, inconsistent printing happens) on ApplyPly wood and square drive screws
9" x 76" x 16"
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woven and dyed cotton on pine stretcher
9 1/8” x 42 1/8”
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woven and dyed cotton on pine stretcher
19 ¾” x 19 ¾”
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light-jet photograph, framed
26 3/8” x 20 ½”
Edition of 3
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woven and dyed cotton on pine stretcher
9 ¼” x 16 ½”
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light-jet photograph, framed
26 3/8” x 20 ½”
Edition of 3
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newspaper clippings, shrinkwrap, museum board, frame
13 7/8” x 17 9/16”
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newspaper clippings, shrinkwrap, museum board, frame
19 15/16” x 20 3/16”
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newspaper clippings, shrinkwrap, museum board, frame
17 1/8” x 20 ¾”
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newspaper clippings, shrinkwrap, museum board, frame
17 3/8” x 22 ¾”
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