Catherine Opie, The Modernist, 2017
Artist: Catherine Opie (born 1961, Sandusky, OH; lives and works in Los Angeles). Materials: Photo series and film (21:44 mins) comprising 852 black-and-white photographs. Description: “We are uncertain about the ambiguous identity of the protagonist, who is played by Opie’s artist friend, Stosh, aka Pig Pen. At the beginning of the film, we watch him […]
Renée Green, Begin Again, Begin Again, 2015
Artist: Renée Green (born 1959, Cleveland, OH, USA; lives and works in Cambridge, MA). Description: Begin Again, Begin Again is a roughly forty-five minute single channel video. It is also the title of Green’s solo exhibition at MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles. Begin Again, Begin Again “is an attempt, […]
Jorge Pardo, Untitled, 1997
Artist: Jorge Pardo (born 1963 Havana, Cuba; lives and works in Mérida, Mexico and New York, USA). Description: “With its nose pointed at Lake Michigan–less than two city blocks away–Pardo’s Santa Cruz 27 racing craft at MCA is a proud testament to two revolutionary designers: West Coast boat builder Bill Lee and early 20th-century architect […]
Terence Gower, “Havana Case Study,” 2016
Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Description: “‘Havana Case Study’ is the second in a series of installations that use American diplomatic architecture as a tool to analyze US international relations (the first work in the series is Baghdad Case Study), and is based on two […]
Terence Gower, 5 Notable Pavilions, 2002-05
Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Digital video; 2 min; duratrans in lightbox; 81 x 155 x 15 cm; archival corrugated cardboard on platform; 240 x 240 cm. Description: “5 Notable Pavilions is a video and photo study of five 1:50 scale reproductions […]
“Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture,” 2008
Curators: Jessica Hough (born in Pittsburgh, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA) and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut (lives and works in New Orleans, USA). Description: Exhibition around modern architecture organized at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Artists included Alexander Apóstol, Daniel Arsham, Gordon Cheung, David Claerbout, Angela Dufresne, Mark Dziewulski, Christine Erhard, […]
Luis Jacob, A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, Based on the Choreography of Françoise Sullivan and the Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 2007
Artist: Luis Jacob (born 1970 in Lima, Peru; lives and works in Toronto, Canada). Materials: Three-channel video installation; 426 x 365 x 240 cm. Description: “Jacob’s work explores the relationship between sculpture and dance, and takes its inspiration from two seemingly disparate art historical sources—the sculpture of British artist Barbara Hepworth, and the choreography of […]
Arni Haraldsson, The Goldfinger Project, 2007
Artist: Arni Haraldsson (born in Iceland; lives and works in Vancouver, Canada). Description: “The Goldfinger Project explored social utopian ideology through the photography of Brutalist architecture. “The project documents both fictional and factual narratives across a wide range of media from one of Brutalism’s key exponents and a leading figure of the Modern Movement; Ernö […]
Judi Werthein, The Functional Family, 2007
Artist: Judi Werthein (born 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives and works in Buenos Aires and Brooklyn, New York). Materials: Single channel video, HD, color, sound; 13 min. Description: A performance recorded at the site of The Sonneveld House—considered an emblematic historic example of Nieuwe Bouwen, the Dutch branch of functionalism—Werthein’s film reenacts an uneventful day […]
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Always After (The Glass House), 2006
Artist: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (born 1961 in Madrid, Spain; lives and works in Chicago, USA). Materials: Super-16 mm film transferred to HD video; 9 min 41 sec. Description: “His 2006 work Always After (The Glass House) is the fifth installment in a series of film-based works—created between 2000 and 2006—that directly engage the architecture of Mies van der […]
