October 13, 2011—November 26, 2011 | Reception Thursday, October 13th, 6-8PM
Witkin’s work investigates systems and structures that shape contemporary life and experiences. His artistic practice blurs the boundaries and roles of art. His new installation questions the established histories of modernism, minimalism and conceptualism, as well as realigning unspoken assumptions of spatial arrangements and boundaries. Removed from its gallery context, 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.
Andrew Witkin
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.
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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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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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
dimensions variable
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four light-jet photographs in four maple frames with lacquer paint, plexiglass and aluminum hardware
32" x 26" Each
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approximately forty white dress shirts, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws
32" x 32" x 16"
Private Collection, Seattle, WA
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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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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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three different books, three laser prints on 100# paper, apple plywood and stainless steel square drive screws
dimensions variable
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