Set to Manual
October 23, 2009 - September 30, 2010
Set to Manual is an exhibition of works in diverse media by artists from Girls’ Club collection and beyond, characterized by intensive hand manufacture. The exhibition features obsessive tinkering, elaborate drawing, juicy painting, hand-painted animation, hand-altered 16mm film, pricked paper drawings, artists’ books, epic collage, site-specific installation and more.
Works by more than twenty-five artists including: Vija Celmins, Ellen Gallagher, Pepe Mar, Annette Messager, Carol Prusa, Amparo Sard, Michelle Segre, Kiki Smith, Jen Stark, Jessica Stockholder, Nancy Spero and others.
Girls' Club gratefully acknowledges the generosity of collectors Debra and Dennis Scholl, and the numerous artists who loaned works for this exhibition.
Artists
| Arlene Berrie Vija Celmins Rosemarie Chiarlone Clifton Childree Tara Donovan Ellen Gallagher Felice Grodin Arturo Herrera Yui Kugimiya Pepe Mar |
Annette Messager Beatriz Monteavaro Gean Moreno Cornelia Parker Kerry Phillips Carol Prusa Elaine Reichek Pipilotti Rist Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez Rosanna Saccoccio |
Amparo Sard Michelle Segre Kiki Smith Nancy Spero Jeni Spota Jen Stark Sara Stites Jessica Stockholder Paula Wilson |
Press Release
Fort Lauderdale, FL - Once upon a time, contemporary art spectators were required to digest lengthy manifestos and divine obscure subtexts from the flimsiest of art gestures. Today, too-conceptual art is on the wane, as is detached, slick neo-Geometric painting, and art based solely on appropriation of other art.