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DeLuxe Ellen Gallagher 2004/2005 aquatint, dry-point, photogravure, spit-bite, lithography, screenprint, embossing, tattoo machine engraving, laser-cutting, collage, crystals, cut paper, enamel, glitter, gold leaf, gouache, graphite, oil, plasticine, polymer medium, pomade, toy eyeballs, watercolor, velvet on paper; edition 11/20 Published by Two Palms Press, New York Ellen Gallagher (American, b. 1965) is known for employing potent visual symbols to reveal sly musings on the history of racial identity in America. She gained attention in the 1990s with paintings that initially appeared abstract and minimal, with a subtle palette and geometry. The delicate grids... read more » |
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Mircea Cantor’s Deeparture and Cao Fei’s COSPlayers The Walker has recently acquired videos by two remarkable young talents, Mircea Cantor (b. 1977) and Cao Fei (b. 1978). Hailing from Romania and Southern China and living and working in Paris and Beijing, respectively, both Cantor and Cao have become increasingly notable presences at many important... read more » |
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Kitchen Kiki Smith 2005 multimedia installation One of the most iconic artists of her generation, Kiki Smith makes work containing unflinching and often exquisite meditations on the body, myth, and spirituality that, as Walker director Kathy Halbreich says, “possess the power to bring one to a complete stop.” Smith exhibits great fluency with... read more » |
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Sky Pesher James Turrell 2005 Nestled into the new garden on the Walker’s expanded campus is an underground pathway that leads visitors into a modest square chamber. Sky Pesher (2005) by American artist James Turrell is a freestanding room-size structure with a 16-square-foot aperture at the apex... read more » |
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Suaire de Mondo Cane (Mondo Cane Shroud) Yves Klein 1961 pigment, synthetic resin on gauze 108 x 118-1/2 inches overall Half shaman, half showman, a judo champion who “leapt into the void,” a mystic devoted to Saint Rita and self-identified as the painter of space who plotted an ultramarine blue revolution, an architect who dreamed of walls of fire and roofs of air, Yves Klein took the European art scene by storm... read more » |
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Untitled Door and Door Frame Robert Gober 1987–1988 A wooden door frame opens into a room within a room. As one passes through this seemingly unremarkable entryway, the frame’s other half, an unhinged door, is propped against the facing wall. Cut into the door, sans doorknob and hardware, are six inset panels arranged in a grid pattern that take... read more » |
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Drunk II Christopher Wool 1990 alkyd, acrylic on aluminum 96 x 64 inches overall “Is it a painting or a process?” asks Christopher Wool about the invincible medium. For the past two decades, he has been interested in the act of painting itself and in the physical properties of paint. Using spray paint, stencils, and stamps, he constructs his works with an austere simplicity... read more » |