Taking its conceptual and historical departure point from Ian Wallace's performance At Work, 1983, this exhibition revolves around the notion of the studio and artist's labor in contemporary art practice. Thirty years after Wallace's gesture, the exhibition reconsiders the same question begged by his performance: what has changed about studio practice? What does the work of making art look like now, as "post-studio practice" becomes pervasive and digital media redefine the studio's rhetorical isolation and unstructured time? Drawn from an extensive program of studio visits, Many Places at Once invites six international artists to present works that complicate or complement the ideas proposed in At Work, 1983.
Martin Soto Climent | Rana Hamadeh | Li Ran | Ian Wallace | William Powhida | Cinthia Marcelle | and Oakland-based studio Real Time and Space
Exhibition Curation + Design
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
San Francisco, CA.
April 17 – July 12, 2014