Gerard and Kelly, Modern Living, 2016
Artist: Brennan Gerard (b.1978, Ohio) and Ryan Kelly (b.1979, Pennsylvania), live and work in Los Angeles and New York Description: Modern Living is a series of site-specific performances, videos filmed on location, drawings and performance scores. Each is set in a modernist home, and explores intimacy and domestic space within modernist architecture.The first two took […]
James Welling, The Glass House,2006–2009
Artist: James Welling (born 1951, Hartford, CT; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) Description: A series of photographs of Philip Johnson’s Glass House, shot with colored filters. For the “Glass House” series, Welling began to use a Canon digital camera and an Epson 9800 printer. The photographs were published in 2011 by Damiani Editore. […]
“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, […]
David Diao, “Sitting the Glass House” series, 2003-05
Artist: David Diao (born 1943 in Chengdu, China; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Acrylic and oil on canvas; variable dimensions. Sitting in the Glass House 2 shown above. Description: Two paintings that shows the artists in Philip Johnson’s Glass House. “In Sitting in the Glass House, he made himself at home […]
Sarah Morris, Points on a Line, 2010
Artist: Sarah Morris (born 1967 in Sevenoaks, England; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: HD digital color video; 35 minutes 48 seconds. Description: “The Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois and the Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut. Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe. Curator and architect. Architect and architect. “Points on a Line” directed […]
Rachel Rose, A Minute Ago, 2014
Artist: Rachel Rose (born 1986; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: HD video; 8 minutes 43 seconds. Description: “In A Minute Ago […] Rose presents found footage of an idyllic beach scene interrupted by an apocalyptic hailstorm. As the freak weather rages overhead, people take shelter as a voice intones, ‘If we die, […]
