Light Years

I. Retrospective of Conceptual Art and Photography Via Materiality

- Braco Dimitrijevic's large portraits hung on the side of a building, advertisement-sized inferring questions potentially related to the portrait itself and questioning it's value

- Gordon Matta-Clark's sculptural installations of prints create a new context for the image and the location of capture through inventive and three-dimensional installations.

- Sol Lewitt, The Area of Manhattan Between... triangular framed images offer a realistic vantage point of buildings where Sol Lewitt presented work as these locations appear from the sky. The sliver of perspective becomes important in conjunction with the photograph itself and highlights the limitation of medium.

- Projection installations of Ger Van Elk & Guiseppe Penone offer a direct entry point into the momentary and visceral possibilities of the image, it's incorporeal nature is in direct opposition to the finite mechanism that creates it, the camera.

II. Photograph as Documentation

- Hans Haacke's Manhattan Real Estate Holdings offer insight into the political climate of a particular period in time and serve as both documentation and a call to action

- Dan Graham, Binocular Zoom & Homes for America both serve as documents. The first can be viewed as a procedural document and the second as a system of notation regarding urban dwellings.

- Vito Acconci- Estimations offer a document of a performance of walking and then taking a photograph at a particular point along a path. In another way, they help drive home his intention to thrust himself into a physical space using a set of self-created directions.

- Douglas Huebler, Location Piece #2 offers a document of emotions captured in different cities by people setting out to follow the artists instructions to create the art pieces.

III. Text and Image In Conceptual Art, Via the Photographic

- Bruce Nauman's Composite Photo of Two Messes on the Studio Floor effectively offers context to the image through the work's title.

- Allan Ruppersberg, Between the Scenes offers prints in combination with type written pages to create a direct narrative possibility.

- Marcel Broothaer text and image combinations are often institutional critique which require language and repetition to begin talking about sameness or a closed set of works that, until around this time, failed to include the copy, print, multiple.

- Rudolf Sikora, The Earth Must Not Become A Dead Planet is a work of text overlaying images that takes on a collage sensibility or image and words, and further words as images themselves.

IV. Variation On The Sense of Scale In Conceptual Photography of the 1960s and 1970s

- Michael Heizer Rotary Interior. Landscape Image is enormous, filling an entire gallery wall.

- Giulio Paolini photograph of himself carrying a photograph with a canvas physically interrupting the plain of the image. Beyond dealing with the theme of surface, this work also asks questions regarding the copy, the size of the photograph itself, and the impossibility of repetition.

- John Baldessari, Extended Corner is a piece in direct dialogue with scale and the photograph, what encapsulates its edges, the perspective of the photographer, and the assumed context a viewer creates.

- Mel Bochner's Surface Dis / Tension offers a conversation about the image within an image through a grid in the foreground of the piece.