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March 09, 2007
Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography. Whitney Museum of American Art, 3-9-07
Elisabeth Sussman is Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art where Gordon Matta-Clark: “You Are the Measure” opened in February 2007, and where she will be co-curating an upcoming exhibition on the work of William Eggleston. She has organized a number of other Whitney exhibitions including Mike Kelley: Catholic Tastes (1991); Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror (1996), with David Armstrong; Keith Haring (1997); and the Museum’s 1993 Biennial Exhibition.
Ms. Sussman has recently co-curated two exhibitions on the work of Eva Hesse: one of her drawings with The Drawing Center and another of her sculpture with the Jewish Museum, both in New York. For the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ms. Sussman co-organized, with Renate Petzinger of the Museum Wiesbaden, a full retrospective on the work of Eva Hesse. The exhibition received the International Art Critics Association First Prize for the best monographic exhibition outside of New York in 2001 and 2002.
For SFMOMA, Elisabeth Sussman also organized, with Sandra Phillips, a retrospective of the work of Diane Arbus. The catalogue for the Arbus exhibition has received the 2004 Infinity Award for Publication of the International Center of Photography.
Elisabeth Sussman was a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, in 1999. She was a fellow at the Getty Research Institute in 2003. She is the author of many publications, including Lisette Model (Phaidon, 2001) and will be contributing essays on Robert Gober for the Schaulager and Lee Bontecou for another upcoming exhibition catalogue.
The first full-scale retrospective in twenty years of the work of Gordon Matta-Clark opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on February 22, 2007. Gordon Matta-Clark: “You Are the Measure” – which travels subsequently to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – includes Matta-Clark’s major works and presents numerous projects.
During the brief but highly productive decade that he worked as an artist – and even more so since his early death – Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has exerted a powerful influence on artists and architects and has emerged as a key figure of the generation that came after Minimalism. This retrospective celebrates the brilliance and radical nature of his work in a number of different mediums: the sculptural objects (most notably from building cuts), drawings, films, photographs, notebooks and documentary material.
"Matta-Clark's engagement as an artist was integral with his ideas of community,” notes curator Elisabeth Sussman. “As a founder and participant in the earliest performance spaces and an originator of the now-famed artist’s restaurant, Food, he was a pioneer in the transformation of lower New York into the artist's neighborhood SoHo. His extraordinary career also developed in an international context. His major cuts in buildings in Europe in Genoa, Antwerp, and Paris were truly memorable as events and as unforgettable spatial experiences, as were his comparable projects in New York and its environs: on the Hudson piers, in tenements, beneath the city’s bridges, streets, and in suburban New Jersey.”
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