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There's a lot of stuff I didn't care for in the past - minimaliism, sculpture, video. But my tastes have started expanding. There was an exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly's drawings in the mid-90's changed my mind about Kelly in particular and minimalism in general. I thought it was at DIA, but I can't find any reference to it so maybe I'm mis-remembering, or maybe it was a dream.
I can't even find any examples that look like what I saw - the plant lithos are close, but I'm certain what I saw were drawings - black ink on landscape format, roughly 20" x 30" hung in grids, wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling. Maybe it was at Matthew Marks.
Christian Jankowski, 16mm Mystery, 2004 Prophets of Deceit at the Wattis Center has lots of fun, witty video pieces - the highest concentration of good video stuff that I've ever seen. Today I stopped by the Hirshhorn and checked out The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas. The Collection in Context rooms are also great - in both cases, lots of cool stuff I've never seen before by artists who I've never heard of before. I'm not sure why I like these pieces so much, but I think the common denominator is that they all look like network structures.
My favorite piece in the show, Greyscale, by Evan Holloway.
Almost the exact feeling..., 2004, by Mindy Shapero. This picture doesn't do it justice.
Schwarzes Loch (Black Hole), 1998-2006, by Björn Dahlem.
Pretty Discreet, 2004, by Rachel Harrison. You can't see it in this photo, but there's a Big John Stud action figure worked into the piece.
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