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Barbara Krakow Gallery is pleased to open its summer group exhibition, Apparent Forms. Featuring a broad swath of artists from four generations, the exhibition serves as a presentation of neighboring conceptual ideas along with strong formal conversations, all with a strong emphasis on variation within and between elements.
The exhibition is divided into three sub-sections. The first of which features Allan McCollum’s The Shapes Project: Shapes from Maine Shapes Ornaments juxtaposed with Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Stamps). This juxtaposition serves, among other things, to illuminate the two artists’ distinct approaches to the balance between formalism and humanism.
The second section (the largest of the three) consists of seven artists’s works that form a loose exquisite corpse-like conversation wrapping the gallery’s walls. The strong and chaotic lines of Liliana Porter’s installation echo the particular and directed starburst-like lines of Sol LeWitt’s portfolio. John Baldessari’s first print portfolio, Raw Prints, takes the chaos of Porter’s lines, as well as the specificity of LeWitt’s lines and chooses a place in the middle. Baldessari takes seemingly random elements from the tipped-in photographs and enlarges the forms but presents seemingly casual outlines, using different colors for each element. The play between photograph and traced/enlarged/outlined forms is echoed in the formal arrangement of Kiki Smith’s bronze mushrooms on the wall. The shadows play a significant role in situating the mushrooms on the wall (as opposed to mushrooms’ more common horizontal location) and emphasizing the tension between the small elements and the large form created by their arrangement/dispersal. On the opposite end of the spectrum of scale, is Ray Charles White’s Dune Study project. For a good number of years, White has been photographing one area of southern California’s dunes. He repeatedly returns to the same location, yet the vastness of the space is continually altered by the winds and so each photograph is in a sense, the same photograph, yet visually they are completely different.
The third section is the quietest – featuring a sculpture and print by Tara Donovan, three etchings by Brice Marden and two wall sculptures/paintings by Kate Shepherd. All of the works engage positive and negative space, perfection and casualness, and the balance between intimacy and vastness.
Six units ranging from 2 1/4 x 1 inches (5.7 x 2.5 cm) to 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (6.4 x 6.4 cm) in diameter
Installation measurements vary
(Inventory #25821)
Edition of 50
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left on each sheet. Cirrus chopmark lower left, and Cirrus Editions printed on verso
Image size: 14 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches each (37.5 x 52.1 cm each)
Paper size: 18 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches each (47.6 x 62.2 cm each)
Frame size: 21 5/8 x 27 3/8 inches each (54.9 x 69.5 cm each)
(Inventory #26166)
Edition of 35
Signed lower right, numbered lower left
Image size: 36 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches (92.7 x 62.9 cm)
Paper size: 38 1/2 x 26 inches (97.8 x 66 cm)
Frame size: 44 x 31 inches (111.8 x 78.7 cm)
(Inventory #BK.18100)
Edition of 45, 1 PP
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed ‘PP 1’, annotated 1
Image size:Â 8 x 6 7/8 inches (20.3 x 17.5 cm)
Paper size:Â 19 5/8 x 15 7/8 inches (49.8 x 40.3 cm)
(Inventory #26318)
Edition of 45, 1 PP
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed ‘PP 1’, annotated 17
Image size:Â 8 x 6 7/8 inches (20.3 x 17.5 cm)
Paper size:Â 19 5/8 x 15 7/8 inches (49.8 x 40.3 cm)
(Inventory #26334)
Edition of 45, 1 PP
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed ‘PP 1’, annotated 20
Image size:Â 8 x 6 7/8 inches (20.3 x 17.5 cm)
Paper size:Â 19 5/8 x 15 7/8 inches (49.8 x 40.3 cm)
(Inventory #26337)
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
17 x 36 x 28 inches (43.2 x 91.4 x 71.1 cm)
(Inventory #20685)
Signed, titled and dated on reverse on each panel
Panel size: 15 x 15 x 1 1/4 inches each (38.1 x 38.1 x 3.2 cm each)
Overall size: 48 x 48 x 1 1/4 inches (121.9 x 121.9 x 3.2 cm)
(Inventory #25605)
Signed and dated on reverse
23 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches  (59.1 x 43.8 cm)
(Inventory #24460)
Signed and dated on reverse
23 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches (59.1 x 43.8 cm)
(Inventory #24461)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #26458)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #25985)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #26466)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #25987)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #26474)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #26478)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #25990)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #25991)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #25992)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #25981)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #25982)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 25
20 x 30 inches, edition of 15
24 x 36 inches, edition of 15
30 x 40 inches, edition of 15
36 x 48 inches, edition of 15
40 x 60 inches, edition of 15
Signed
(Inventory #25983)
Edition of 35
Hand stamped and numbered by the artist on verso
Image size:Â 9 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches (24.8 x 23.5 cm)
Paper size:Â 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (29.2 x 29.2 cm)
(Inventory #35369)
Signed, titled and dated on bottom of shelf
This installation size: 76 x 43 1/2 x 11 inches (193 x 110.5 x 27.9 cm)
(Inventory #25454)
Edition of 25, 15 AP
Signed and numbered lower right
Image/paper size:Â 30 x 30 inches each (76.2 x 76.2 cm each)
(Inventory #20953)
Krakow 1978.02
Available as a complete set only
Edition of 20
Signed, dated, numbered and stamped lower right
Image size:Â 23 5/8 x 17 1/2 inches (60 x 44.5 cm)
Sheet size:Â 23 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches (60.6 x 45.4 cm)
(Inventory #23905)
Edition of 20
Signed, dated, numbered and stamped lower left
Image size:Â 23 5/8 x 17 1/2 inches(60 x 44.5 cm)
Sheet size:Â 23 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches(60.6 x 45.4 cm)
(Inventory #23906)
Edition of 20
Signed, dated, numbered and stamped left center
Image size:Â 23 5/8 x 17 1/2 inches (60 x 44.5 cm)
Sheet size:Â 23 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches(60.6 x 45.4 cm)
(Inventory #23909)
Edition of 44
Signed LB lower right, numbered lower left
Image size:Â 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Paper size:Â 19 1/2 x 14 1/8 inches (48.4 x 35.9 cm)
(Inventory #27525)
Image size: 18 3/4 x 24 inches (47.6 x 61 cm)
Paper size: 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Frame size:Â 24 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches (62.9 x 83.2 cm)
Edition of 15
(Inventory #19029)
Each element: 2 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 1/2 inches (5.7 x 8.6 x 1.3 cm)
Installation dimensions are variable:
This installation: 57 x 90 3/4 inches (144.8 x 230.5 cm)
Each one with signed authentication card
(Inventory #20624)
Barbara Krakow Gallery
Exhibited: June 2014 – September 2014
10 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116
617-262-4490 | info@krakowwitkingallery.com
The gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5:30pm
