![]() Their curatorial work, which is a year-round process, has lead to the emergence of Independent as a glorious glitch in the art world machine. (Higgs also directs programming at White Columns). The blend of outsider works with emerging international artists is nothing short of a choreographic act carried out by the fair’s long-time curators Elizabeth Dee and Matthew Higgs. For its 2019 exhibition, Independent tucked itself into TriBeCa’s reasonably-sized Spring Studios to present works from well-respected NYC galleries Karma, Anton Kern, White Columns, Canada, and Marlborough Contemporary - in addition to dozens of international exhibitors such as London’s The Sunday Painter and Oslo’s Standard galleries. For those who find themselves curious about fair life, but unaware of exclusive blue-chip gallery gatherings or without the stamina to circumnavigate Pier 94 for the Armory, there was one fair that was continually suggested to us, via word of mouth, no less: the Independent Art Fair. The sheer amount of art on offer can be overwhelming, even for veterans of art world programming, and exhausting. Triggered by the massive Armory Show at the beginning of March, it’s a frenzied moment for gallerists, curators, artists, and, most importantly, collectors. White Columns would like to thank all of the participating artists and their representatives for their enthusiastic response to ‘Looking Back.The dust has just now settled from New York City’s yearly onslaught of art fairs. In late 2006 White Columns will appoint a selector for the 2007 White Columns Annual (scheduled for November/December 2007.) As the ‘Annual’ exhibition series evolves over the coming years White Columns hopes that each successive ‘Annual’ will substantially augment – and depart from – its predecessor, creating an ongoing and unfolding commentary about certain aspects of the art produced and/or exhibited in New York. Hopefully a publication will follow in early 2007 that will act as a coda to the exhibition, offering an opportunity for further reflection. With one exception – a work that is time specific, and is thus being shown in a more recent state – all of the selected works in the exhibition were either previously seen in New York galleries, or were personally encountered during studio visits in New York by Matthew Higgs in the past 12 months. In re-thinking the (fairly) recent past the exhibition hopes to provoke something akin to a sense of deja-vu, establishing a scenario that is at once both melancholic (reflective) and optimistic (forward thinking.) Through the re-contextualization of artworks previously encountered in other circumstances and contexts, the exhibition hopes to establish – albeit temporarily – a new ‘narrative’, a conversation – of sorts – amongst artworks, that seeks to illuminate and/or explore certain underlying tendencies, conditions, or connections, that perhaps might otherwise have remained elusive or obscured. – individuals follow in an increasingly fragmented cultural milieu. ![]() The exhibition series hopes to eventually illuminate aspects of the specific, yet idiosyncratic routes –physical, intellectual, social, emotional, etc. The format of the exhibition inevitably encourages highly subjective responses to the ‘impossibility’ of viewing art in New York. In a very straightforward sense the exhibition hopes to reveal something of the complexities involved in trying to negotiate – and engage with – New York’s constantly evolving art communities. For the inaugural ‘Annual’ exhibition White Columns’ Director and Chief Curator Matthew Higgs has selected the artists and works. an artist, a curator, a writer, etc.) will be invited to make an exhibition at White Columns based on their personal experience of looking at art in New York in the previous year. The exhibition will become an annual fixture on White Columns’ calendar. ‘Looking Back’ is the inaugural White Columns Annual. Participating artists: Fia Backström, Thomas Bayrle, Walead Beshty, Jeff Burton, Lucile Desamory, Graham Durward, Siobhan Liddell, Klara Liden, Ari Marcopoulos, David Moreno, Ree Morton, Matt Mullican, Stuart Sherman, Josef Strau.
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