Installations: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Part One
Oct 22, 1994 – Jan 22, 1995
Installations was the first of a pair of exhibitions highlighting installation work as one of the most significant developments in contemporary art since the 1960s. The show offered the opportunity to examine twelve installations in relation to one another from key movements including Minimal, Light and Space, and Conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s as well as later work from the 1980s and 1990s.
Selected from the over thirty installations in the permanent collection at the time, part one included Barbara Bloom's The Reign of Narcissism (1988-89), Dan Flavin's untitled (to Robert, Joe and Michael)(1975-81), Renée Green's Import/ Export Funk Office (1992-93), Roni Horn's How Dickinson Stayed Home (1993), Louise Lawler's Exhibition 1987 (1987), pieces from Claes Oldenburg's The Store (1961-62), Stephen Prina's Aristotle-Plato-Socrates (1982), Charles Ray's Bath (1989), Bill Viola's Room for St. John of the Cross (1983), Lawrence Weiner's AN ACCUMULATION OF SUFFICIENT ABRASION TO REMOVE ENOUGH OF AN OPAQUE SURFACE TO LET LIGHT THROUGH WITH MORE INTENSITY (1981), and Christopher Williams's Angola to Vietnam* (1989).
Installations: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Part One was organized by Kerry Brougher and Ann Goldstein, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.