THE PICTURES GENERATION:
FROM HALLWALLS TO THE KITCHEN AND BEYOND
CURATED BY VERA DIKA
FROM HALLWALLS TO THE KITCHEN AND BEYOND
CURATED BY VERA DIKA
OCT 03 2024-
NOV 02 2024
NOV 02 2024
64 FULTON STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10038
NEW YORK, NY 10038
SARA’S and Dunkunsthalle are pleased to present The Pictures Generation: From Hallwalls to the Kitchen, and Beyond, curated by Vera Dika, at 64 Fulton Street, from October 3 to November 2, 2024. Continuing our multi-part focus on the early days of the Pictures Generation, the show opens in tandem with a screening series at the Roxy Cinema. The exhibition features early Pictures art works, films, sound recordings, drawings, photos and ephemera by Robert Longo, Charlie Clough, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, Jack Goldstein, Gretchen Bender and Michael Zwack, a group of artists who lived and worked for a pivotal time in the surrounding area of the Financial District—working across mediums, and across boundaries of high art and popular culture.
Of the group, Robert Longo, Charlie Clough, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer and Michael Zwack began their careers at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, New York. They met the West Coast artist Jack Goldstein, first at Hallwalls, and then again in New York City. In the summer of 1977, Longo and
Sherman moved to 85 South Street in New York, a stone's throw from the gallery location at 64 Fulton. This building is where Cindy Sherman created many of her early Untitled Film Stills, and where Robert Longo’s Men in the Cities series were
Of the group, Robert Longo, Charlie Clough, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer and Michael Zwack began their careers at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, New York. They met the West Coast artist Jack Goldstein, first at Hallwalls, and then again in New York City. In the summer of 1977, Longo and
Sherman moved to 85 South Street in New York, a stone's throw from the gallery location at 64 Fulton. This building is where Cindy Sherman created many of her early Untitled Film Stills, and where Robert Longo’s Men in the Cities series were
photographed on the roof, and subsequently drawn. Sherman soon moved to 64 Fulton with Nancy Dwyer, furthering the historical prominence of the block and surrounding neighborhood as an artistic hub. In 1981, Gretchen Bender arrived in New York City and settled into the South Street loft, joining the artists of this group as a friend and peer.
The selection of objects and moving images on view in this exhibition captures a snapshot of ideas and memories from the generation who shaped the cultural discourse beginning in the late 70's and into the 80s, when media began to subsume the commercial landscape and, later, daily life. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Hallwalls in Buffalo, this exhibition highlights the beginning of that practice. With consideration to the many mediated forms of creating and existing in today's world, this exhibition invites viewers to reflect on how we arrived here, and to consider what lies ahead.
The selection of objects and moving images on view in this exhibition captures a snapshot of ideas and memories from the generation who shaped the cultural discourse beginning in the late 70's and into the 80s, when media began to subsume the commercial landscape and, later, daily life. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Hallwalls in Buffalo, this exhibition highlights the beginning of that practice. With consideration to the many mediated forms of creating and existing in today's world, this exhibition invites viewers to reflect on how we arrived here, and to consider what lies ahead.
INSTALLTION IMAGES:
THE SHORT FILMS SCREENING
SEP 28, 2024, 5:30PM
ROXY CINEMA
2 6TH AVE
NEW YORK, NY 10013
2 6TH AVE
NEW YORK, NY 10013
We are pleased to announce our focus on Hallwalls and the Pictures Generation in New York continues on September 28 at 5:30pm with The Short Films, a screening at the Roxy Cinema. Curated by Vera Dika and presented with Dunkunsthalle and The Roxy.
"The shorts program features early film and video productions by Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Glenda Hydler, Robert Longo, Gretchen Bender and Sandy Tait. These works engage popular culture, and gender issues, but always with a keen eye to the material and history of their medium, be it 16mm film, analog video, MTV video, or experimental narrative film. A central passion of the Pictures Generation artists was the “Movies” (and the Media), that is, they wanted to make art about movies, to critique popular culture, and even to make their own movies. Their passion initially took them to short films and video works, and then even into mainstream narrative filmmaking." - Vera Dika
"The shorts program features early film and video productions by Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Glenda Hydler, Robert Longo, Gretchen Bender and Sandy Tait. These works engage popular culture, and gender issues, but always with a keen eye to the material and history of their medium, be it 16mm film, analog video, MTV video, or experimental narrative film. A central passion of the Pictures Generation artists was the “Movies” (and the Media), that is, they wanted to make art about movies, to critique popular culture, and even to make their own movies. Their passion initially took them to short films and video works, and then even into mainstream narrative filmmaking." - Vera Dika
FILM LINEUP
Jack Goldstein, Shane (1975) 2.28m
Jack Goldstien, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1975) 2.10m
Jack Goldstein, A White Dove (1975) 50s
Jack Goldstein, A Ballet Shoe (1975) 44s
Cindy Sherman, I Hate You (1975) 3m
Cindy Sherman, Unhappy Hooker (1976) 3m
Cindy Sherman and Glenda Hydler, Performance (1978) 48m
INTERMISSION
Robert Longo, dir., Gretchen Bender, ed., New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle (1986) 4m
Robert Longo, dir., Gretchen Bender, ed., REM, The One I Love (1987) 3m
Robert Longo, Arena Brains (1987) 35m (36m)
Gretchen Bender and Sandy Tait, Volatile Memory (1988) 13m
Jack Goldstein, Shane (1975) 2.28m
Jack Goldstien, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1975) 2.10m
Jack Goldstein, A White Dove (1975) 50s
Jack Goldstein, A Ballet Shoe (1975) 44s
Cindy Sherman, I Hate You (1975) 3m
Cindy Sherman, Unhappy Hooker (1976) 3m
Cindy Sherman and Glenda Hydler, Performance (1978) 48m
INTERMISSION
Robert Longo, dir., Gretchen Bender, ed., New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle (1986) 4m
Robert Longo, dir., Gretchen Bender, ed., REM, The One I Love (1987) 3m
Robert Longo, Arena Brains (1987) 35m (36m)
Gretchen Bender and Sandy Tait, Volatile Memory (1988) 13m
