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"Show Support: A Benefit Exhibition"
William Anastasi, Bill Barrette, Michael Gitlin, Quentin Morris, Osvaldo Romberg, Marjorie Welish, Michael Zansky
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Exhibit Duration: April 17 - June 12, 2004
Location: Slought Foundation
Reception: Saturday, April 17, 2004
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Please consider supporting Slought Foundation's 2004/2005 Season! Play a role in ensuring Slought Foundation maintains its status as one of the most vibrant and innovative alternative institutions today. "Show Support" is a benefit exhibition to support Slought, featuring works for sale by contemporary artists William Anastasi, Bill Barrette, Michael Gitlin, Quentin Morris, Osvaldo Romberg, Marjorie Welish, and Michael Zansky.
As a young non-profit organization, we need your support now more than ever to continue our exciting cultural and curatorial programming. For information on membership categories and how you can make a tax-deductible donation today online or by check, visit: http://slought.org/support/
William Anastasi, considered to be among the first "classical" conceptual artists, is known for rediscovering the radical through painting, sculpture, collage, photography and drawing. His work is in the permanent collections of NY institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Jewish Museum, as well as The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Staatsgalerie fur Kunst in Denmark, and The Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf in Germany, to name but a few. At Slought Foundation, he recently exhibited me altar's egoes, a project engaging Jarry, Joyce, and Duchamp.
Bill Barrette is a NY-based artist and photographer. Select exhibition venues include: Stux Gallery, NY; Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt; fiction/nonfiction Gallery, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield; Museum of the City of Vienna; White Box Gallery, NY; Apex Art, NY; and The Drawing Center, NY. Publications include the Catalogue Raisonne of Eva Hesse’s sculpture (Timken, 1989) and three books of black and white photographs about New York, Berlin, and Lowell, Massachusetts, alongside poetry by John Yau, Clark Coolidge, Michael Gizzi, and others (1991-1995). Recent curatorial work revisits the history of Sugamo Prison and the American Occupation of Japan, 1945-52 through exhibitions, symposia, and events at Princeton University (2003), the Philadelphia Art Alliance (2002), and Jan van der Donk Gallery, NY (2001). Barrette is a member of the Slought Foundation advisory board.
Michael Gitlin's work has been widely exhibited in venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Kunstforum, Munich, Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, Stampa Gallery, Basel, and Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris. His work is in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum, NY, Hirshhorn Museum, D.C., Ludwig Museum, Köln, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. He contributed work to SkulpturSein, curated by Harald Szeeman and Jurgen Harten (Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, 1986), and Documenta 6 (Kassel, Germany, 1977), curated by Manfred Schneckenburger and Edward Fry. At Slought Foundation, his work was featured in the exhibition Unconventional Three-Dimensional and the Coltrane exhibition.
Quentin Morris, an abstract artist based in Philadelphia, has exhibited at venues including The Painted Bride, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The African American Museum in Philadelphia. His work will be on exhibit at The Studio Museum of Harlem from July through September, 2004. He will have a solo exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Morris Gallery, in November 2004. He is represented in Philadelphia by Larry Becker Contemporary Art. At Slought Foundation, his work was featured in the Coltrane exhibition.
Osvaldo Romberg, Senior Curator at Slought Foundation, is a professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Select exhibition venues include: Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Sudo Museum, Tokyo; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York; and the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion. Prior to becoming Senior Curator at Slought Foundation, Romberg was the subject of a Slought conference at the University of Pennsylvania, archived online alongside a survey of his work, as well as a volume of critical essays, Searching for Romberg, edited by Aaron Levy (Slought Books, 2001).
Marjorie Welish, a poet, painter and art critic, has contributed to several volumes on contemporary art, including Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, and Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics. Her selected criticism appears in Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). She is the author of The Annotated "Here" and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2000) and Word Group (forthcoming 2004). She exhibits her paintings with Baumgartner Gallery in New York. Welish was the subject of a Slought Foundation conference at the University of Pennsylvania, archived online alongside a survey of her work, as well as a volume of critical essays, Of the Diagram, edited by Aaron Levy and Jean-Michel Rabaté (Slought Books, 2001).
Michael Zansky's work was recently on view at Exit Art, New York, the Aldrich Museum, Connecticut, and the Norton Museum of Art, Florida. He has also exhibited in New York at White Columns, The Drawing Center, White Box, and Barbara Gladstone Gallery. He exhibited with Constance Dejong and Tony Oursler at the Rockland Foundation in November 2003, and was the subject of a recent essay by Thomas McEvilley. He has designed theater for the New York City Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Pennsylvania Opera, and Philadanco. He is represented by Universal Concepts Unlimited, NY. At Slought Foundation, his work was featured in the exhibition Unconventional Three-Dimensional.
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