"American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove" Exhibition-Curated by William D. JudsonExcerpt from the Exhibition Foreword by Phillip M. Johnson, Carnegie Museum of Art:This exhibition "...marks a milestone both for The Carnegie Museum of Art and for the field of contemporary art as a whole. It constitutes the first large-scale exhibition of video works which this museum has organized. More importantly, however, it is the first museum-organized exhibition of several video installations to be explicity directed toward a thematic consideration...Full credit for the concept of this exhibition goes to Bill Judson. From the beginning his idea has had an unmistakable "ring of truth" VIDEO ARTISTS:Dara Birnbaum"Will-O'-The-Wisp" 1985Frank Gillete"Aransas" 1978Doug Hall"The Terrible Uncertainty of the Thing Described" 1987Mary Lucier"Wilderness" 1986Rita Myers"The Allure of the Concentric" 1985Steina Vasulka""The West" 1983Bill Viola"Room for St. John of the Cross" 1983 |