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The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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Danny's Gift from Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
2022Danny's Gift is part of a series of works inspired by literature. This piece references both Steinbeck's first critical and commercial success in 1935 as well as his backyard in his last home that was available to rent in 2018. In Tortilla Flat the protagonist Danny gives his love a vacuum cleaner with no motor in it. She still uses it, pushing it around her home and making the sound herself.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Stephen's Service from The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
2022Stephen's Service is part of a series of works inspired by literature. Written in England in 1928 before there was a word for homosexuality, the main character Stephen lives as an "invert." She falls in love and builds a life with Mary, but ultimately tricks Mary into marrying a man so that she can have children. Stephen's character drove an ambulance in World War I.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Scholarship from Invisible Man by Ralph Waldo Ellison
2022Scholarship is part of a series of works inspired by literature. Written in the USA and published in 1956, The Invisible Man follows an unnamed black man from young adulthood into the rest of his life. This work isolates moments from the story including the beginning when the unnamed protaganist is forced to physically fight fellow scholarship recipients and retrieve the winnings from an electrified blanket, as well as his later role as a labor organizer and survivor of a plant explosion.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Dream from Seaside Houses by John Cheever
2022Dream from Seaside Houses is part of a series of works inspired by literature. In the short story Seaside Houses, published in the New Yorker in 1961, the main character brings his family to rental cottages every summer and is entranced by the homes and belongings of the strangers. He dreams he's on a cruise and sharing a bunk with a man. He goes to the bar for a drink but the bartender tells him the bar is closed. He pleads with the bartender that the drink is for his daughter so the bartender offers a beautiful pink bottle of liqueur as a gift. He tells the bartender, actually his daughter likes gin.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Jagarundi, La Campana
2021Viewer is encouraged to look through peephole to see replica of a kitchen at a cattle ranch in George West, Texas. Across the room through the sliding glass door the viewer can see a felling axe beheading a small animal. The piece references a visit from an emaciated bobcat at lunchtime. Everyone scrambled to get their gun so that they could kill what appeared to be a rabid animal. The animal escaped. A rabid animal can infect and kill the herd. Ranchers are instructed to sever the head of a suspected rabid animal and send it to wildlife authorities.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Dr. Hari Jot's Final Treatment Room
2023This work is an homage to the final treatment room of a blind acupuncturist. Viewer is encouraged to gently turn acrylic rod to activate acupuncture needles to go in and out of miniature bed. Radio is tuned to local news, AM or FM, blue light is on to welcome death.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Homage to Midori Harima's Negativescape at Thomas Beale's HoneySpace, West Side Highway, NYC 2008
2023In 2008 curator Thomas Beale presented a series of installations in a vacant storefront on the west side highway. Viewers entered a dark space and as your eyes adjusted a projected carousel came into focus across the room. This piece allows the viewers to peer into a shrunken version of the original, and activate the carousel by turning the glass spire that sticks out of the roof.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Amazing Grace
Added on: August 1, 2024
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Added on: July 31, 2024
Mick's Contraption from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
2022Mick's Contraption is part of a series of works inspired by literature. In the Heart is a Lonely Hunter, the young protagonist envisions a contraption rather like a ferris wheel that takes her from her unhappy home in the southeastern United States to China. The cigarette lighters are a nod to recent scholarship which has revealed that the author, long believed to have lived a solitary life with brief marriages and divorces with one man actually had many female lovers and companions.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Dr. Gordon's Office from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Added on: July 31, 2024