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- Populating store fronts, lofts, and warehouses across the country, these spaces confronted the supposed neutrality of the commercial gallery's "white cube" by promoting work that was politically engaged, experimental, and more concerned with artistic discourse than commercial viability.
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Apr 14, 2019 · Insisting that content and context exist in generative reciprocity, alternative art spaces fueled a moment of extraordinary creativity and promise: one that charted new paths and possibilities for art in the wake of modernism.
May 14, 2014 · That said, many of the alternative spaces that sprang up in the golden age of the '70s are still around today. The following list, ordered chronologically, includes many that are still active, as well as a few that are notable simply for their breadth of vision.
Jun 9, 2021 · June 9th, 2021. By: Karen Rosenberg. New York’s alternative art spaces, many of which date from the SoHo loft scene of the 1970s, play an undersung behind-the-scenes role in an art world that often seems, from the outside, to be powered by the movements and machinations of commercial galleries.
Feb 24, 2023 · Insisting that content and context exist in generative reciprocity, alternative art spaces fueled a moment of extraordinary creativity and promise: one that charted new paths and possibilities for art in the wake of modernism.
- Experimental, experiential, and ephemeral. In November 1970, poet Peter Schjedahl entered a strange space. “Dingly lighted,” it housed art that was “scarcely distinguishable” from its “crumbling walls,” “rugged floors,” and “ruined fixtures.”
- Not a white cube. During the 1970s, both museums and commercial galleries in New York City ascribed to the convention of the “white cube”: a space structured by right angles and smooth white walls.
- 112 Greene Street. 112 Greene Street was founded by artists Jeffrey Lew, Alan Saret, and Gordon Matta-Clark in 1970. It occupied the ground floor and basement of a former rag-picking factory: a recycling venture that was itself recycled by artists.
- Artists Space. Located at 155 Wooster Street, just a few blocks south of 112 Greene Street, Artists Space opened in October 1973. Founded by art historian Irving Sandler and arts administrator Trudie Grace, it was backed by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
Jan 25, 2022 · Empowered by the grassroots organizing of the prior decade’s civil rights struggles, artists active in the alternative space movement worked to combat their own economic and cultural...
The wave of alternative spaces that emerged in the US through the mid-1970s were typically organized by collectives of artists whose interests were focused on conceptual art, mixed media, electronic media, diversity and performance art. [6]
