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Michelle Stuart

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For nearly six decades Michelle Stuart has made an impact on the contemporary art world. Ranging from earth-works to artist’s books, her investigations – often hinging on the photographic image – consider both the physicality of materials and the cultural and scientific issues not generally included in the vocabulary of art. Thank you to Michelle Stuart for passing along the image of  Niagara Gorge Path Relocated   which she made here in 1975; it can be seen through the lens of the invented appliance by Allen C Topolski (titled Something Good to Have Around ). These Fragments Against Time, 2018 Wall: 130 archival inkjet photographs; Table: laminated wood, metal 88 3/8 x 147 1/2 inch.    Table: 24 x 22 x 96 inches https://www.michellestuartstudio.com/ Here on Slab #10  S omething Good to Have Around,  found objects and materials, 2016 and  A Pedestal Not Unlike Myself   mixed and found materials, 2002
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Mary Miss

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Mary Miss installed Blind Spot on the Artpark grounds in 1976 when she did the Residency here. Miss often employed an architectural vernacular in asserting the remains of a particular place. In Ladder for a Beech Tree  (below) she took “ the visitor outside the new [then current] central complex [and ] into contact with the surrounding landscape of the earlier place" - to some extent, setting precedence for the installation here today. http://marymiss.com/projects/ladder-for-a-beech-tree-2/   Here on Slab #7   Mary's Ladder , found object, 2020 and Tharp , wood and found materials, 1989
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Laurie Anderson

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Laurie Anderson  is one of America's most  preeminent and innovative pioneers – a director, visual artist, writer, inventor and vocalist. Anderson participated in the residency here in 1977. Her technological accomplishments continue even now. Chalkroom , a recent virtual reality work at Mass Moca   allowed viewers to fly through a cavernous structure made of words, drawings and stories – stopping where they choose to read and contribute.        https://vrscout.com/news/laurie-anderson-vr-chalkroom/ Here on slab #3   My Mother's New Jetpack , found objects
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Gordon Matta-Clark

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Gordon Matta-Clark is most widely recognized for what he called "Anarchitecture" in which he dissected existing buildings insisting on a primal use of force that he paralleled to creative conceptualization. Matta-Clark resided here in Artpark in the summer of 1974; he made a work titled Bingo (below) – portions of a house placed on the river’s bank. Gordon Matta-Clark –  Conical Intersect , 1975, photo: Marc Petitjean "Turning The Place Over" by Richard Wilson Bingo, Pieces from House displayed in Art Park, Lewiston, New York (Documentation of the action "Bingo" made in 1974 in New York, United States)   https://whitney.org/collection/works/43329   Here on slab #9   Echus , found objects and materials, 1989 and A Pedestal Not Unlike the Attic I Had Planned , found and purchased materials, 2002
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Alice Aycock

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Alice Aycock is considered a pioneer in environmental art and site-specific art. As a leading sculptor during the feminist movement of the 1970s, Aycock’s work help resituate sculpture’s interdisciplinary nature - couched between architecture and landscape. She installed The Beginnings of a Complex... (below) in Artpark in 1977. The work titled Stairs (These Stairs Can Be Climbed) was built three years earlier.     "The Beginnings of a Complex..." Excerpt Shaft #4/Five Walls, 1977 Wood  28’ high x 8’ wide x 6’ long, Artpark, Lewiston, NY   Stairs (These Stairs Can Be Climbed) 1974 Wood  14’2” long x 10’ wide x 13’4” high (original dimensions) Here on Slab #11   A Pedestal Exactly Like a Kitchen
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Ant Farm

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Ant Farm (a collective of artists) did a residency at Artpark in 1975. They are arguably most known for The Cadillac Ranch  pictured below. During their residency  Ant Farm buried a 1968 Oldsmobile Vista cruiser station wagon wrapped in plastic here in ArtPark. It was a time capsule to be opened in 2000; inside it were suitcases wrapped in plastic filled with objects popular in the early 70s.  New York State Parks department has not permitted the artwork to be removed, citing environmental concerns - the car remains buried here . Ant Farm.  Citizens Time Capsule , 1975. Chip Lord (left) and Doug Michels (right) posing with the station wagon covered in tar, ready to be buried, Lewiston, New York. 35mm slide. Courtesy Chip Lord.   https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/can-ant-farm-unearth-lost-work-653129 Here on Slab #8  Penumbra, found materials, 1989
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Agnes Denes

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  Agnes Denes  is a  primary figure among the concept-based artists who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. She  attended the ArtPark residency in 1977 with Laurie Anderson, Alice Ayecock and Martin Puryear and then again in 1979 with Ursula von Rydingsvard and Gene Davis.   Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule-11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years, 1992-96, (420 x 270 x 28 meters) Ylojarvi, Finland   http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/works4.html Here on slab #6   Met-O-Mat, found materials 2014
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