scatter brainAlternately girlish and demonic, they merged popular culture, personal fantasy, history and current, often violent events and fell under the heading of scatter art, a phenomenon whose definition and membership remains a bit blurred. The artists most often identified with it — like Ms. Kilimnik, Sylvie Fleury, Cady Noland and, to some extent, Jessica Stockholder — are women, as are those artists’ most important precursors, among them Yvonne Rainer, Joan Jonas, Barbara Bloom and the photo-based generation grouped around Cindy Sherman. It could also be seen as including Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jack Pierson and even Matthew Barney.
Roberta is rewriting history here: "fell under the heading of scatter art, a phenomenon whose definition and membership remains a bit blurred. The artists most often identified with it — like Ms. Kilimnik, Sylvie Fleury, Cady Noland and, to some extent, Jessica Stockholder — are women,"
That was "neo-scatter"
Scatter art was a 70s phenom--I think of it as the installation experiments at 112 Greene, Barry LeVa, rolling BBs across the floor, etc
we were calling it (the 80's version) scatter art. matty mccaslin was in there too. shes playing favorites again. and every one saw this show.
From that 1990 article, talking about the art of the 70s:
"For Barry Le Va, whose scatter pieces mix rolls, strips and particles of felt with ball bearings or shards of glass, sculpture is a matter of texture and horizontality - a field of seemingly random incidents spread out at the viewer's feet."
I'm surprised no one in your group was differentiating 70s and late 80s scatter, since the 80s was all about taking old ideas and ironically repurposing them.
kilimnik owned scatter art at that moment. it could just be my indifference.
OK, then Meg Webster owned earthworks at that moment.
yeah, she brought earthworks back into the gallery.
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- bill 5-30-2007 11:44 pm
Roberta is rewriting history here: "fell under the heading of scatter art, a phenomenon whose definition and membership remains a bit blurred. The artists most often identified with it — like Ms. Kilimnik, Sylvie Fleury, Cady Noland and, to some extent, Jessica Stockholder — are women,"
That was "neo-scatter"
Scatter art was a 70s phenom--I think of it as the installation experiments at 112 Greene, Barry LeVa, rolling BBs across the floor, etc
- tom moody 5-30-2007 11:50 pm [add a comment]
we were calling it (the 80's version) scatter art. matty mccaslin was in there too. shes playing favorites again. and every one saw this show.
- bill 5-31-2007 12:52 am [add a comment]
From that 1990 article, talking about the art of the 70s:
"For Barry Le Va, whose scatter pieces mix rolls, strips and particles of felt with ball bearings or shards of glass, sculpture is a matter of texture and horizontality - a field of seemingly random incidents spread out at the viewer's feet."
I'm surprised no one in your group was differentiating 70s and late 80s scatter, since the 80s was all about taking old ideas and ironically repurposing them.
- tom moody 5-31-2007 1:13 am [add a comment]
kilimnik owned scatter art at that moment. it could just be my indifference.
- bill 5-31-2007 2:36 am [add a comment]
OK, then Meg Webster owned earthworks at that moment.
- tom moody 5-31-2007 2:49 am [add a comment]
yeah, she brought earthworks back into the gallery.
- bill 5-31-2007 2:54 am [add a comment]