Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.)

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"Group Material was founded by a number of artists who sought a collaborative practice in which they could fuse their interests in art and politics. The original thirteen members included Tim Rollins, Patrick Brennan, Julie Ault, Mundy McLaughlin, Marybeth Nelson, and Beth Jaker. In 1980 and 1981 Group Material operated a storefront exhibition space on East Thirteenth Street, where it staged a series of shows focused on social themes.

After 1981 the group shrunk to three members and chose not to maintain its own space but instead to create installations in existing venues (alternative art spaces, university galleries, and museums) and multiform projects in public (primarily through interventions using public advertising spaces). Doug Ashford joined the group in 1982, Felix Gonzalez-Torres in 1987, Karen Ramspacher in 1989, and Thomas Eggerer and Jochen Klein in 1995. Group Material's dense installations were typically thematic and combined fine art in various media and styles, mass-produced items, and artifacts to form designed environments. These exhibitions were concerned with topical issues or debates in culture and politics and were institution- or site-dependent, such as “Subculture” on the IRT subway trains in 1982; "Democracy" at the Dia Art Foundation in 1988; and "AIDS Timeline" at the University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, in 1989. Group Material ceased its activities in 1996."

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1980 Group Material opens storefront at 244 E. 13th Street in the Lower East Side October 4 27,1980 "Inaugural Exhibition", Group Material, 244 E. 13th Street, New York November 4 11, 1980 "The Salon Election of '80", Group Material, 244 E. 13th Street, New York November 22 December 21, 1980 "ALIENATION", Group Material, 244 E. 13th Street, New York January 10 February 1, 1981 "The People's Choice (Arroz con Mango)", Group Material, 244 E. 13th Street, New York February 14 March 9, 1981 “It’s a Gender Show!”, Group Material, 244 E. 13th Street, New York March 7th, 1981 “Revolting Music”, The Machinist’s Union Hall, New York March 21 April 20, 1981 "Consumption: Metaphor, Pastime, Necessity", Group Material, 244 E. 13th Street, New York May 2 June 4, 1981 "Facere/Fascis", Group Material, 244 E. 13th Street, New York June 14th-30th, 1981 "Atlanta: An Emergency Exhibition", Group Material, 244 E. 13th Street, New York July 11, 1981 "Eat This Show", Group Material, 244 E. 13th Street, New York August, 1981 Group Material awarded its first NEA grant October 31 November 28th, 1981 "Enthusiasm!", Group Material Headquarters, 132 E. 26th street, New York December 10, 1981 January 10, 1982 "M5", Interior bus advertisements, Fifth Avenue bus lines, New York April 16, 1982 "DA ZI BAOS", 14th Street and Park Avenue South, Union Square, New York March 25 May 1, 1982 "Works on Newspaper", Group Material Headquarters, 132 E. 26th Street, New York May 29 July 17, 1982 "Primer (for Raymond Williams)", Artists Space, 105 Hudson Street, New York June 19 July 9, 1982 "Luchar!: An Exhibition for the People of Central America", Taller Latinoamericano/The Latin American Workshop, Inc., New York April 14, 1982 "Revolutionary Fine Arts", Taller Latinoamericano, New York September 1 30, 1983 "Subculture", Interior advertisements, IRT subway trains, New York. Concurrent exhibition held at Taller Latinoamericano, New York January 22 March 18, 1984 "Timeline: A Chronicle of U.S. Intervention in Central and Latin America", P.S.1, New York January 11 February 8, 1985 "A.D.: Christian Influence in Contemporary Culture", Work, New York March 21 June 9, 1985 "Americana", 1985 Whitney Biennial, lobby gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York April 27 May 25, 1985 "Democracy Wall", Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales 1985 1986 "MASS", various locations: Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; Artspace, Sydney Australia, and others September 1 October 12, 1985 "Messages to Washington", Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC November 7 December 19, 1985 "Alarm Clock", "The Other America", Royal Festival Hall, London February 22 March 22, 1986 "Liberty & Justice", Alternative Museum, 17 White Street, New York May 24 June 14, 1986 "Arts and Leisure", The Kitchen, 519 W. 19th Street, New York February 6 28, 1987 "Resistance (Anti-Baudrillard)", White Columns, 325 Spring Street, New York June 12 September 20, 1987 "The Castle", "documenta 8", Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany May 22, 1988 "Inserts", Advertising supplement to the Sunday New York Times September, 1988 January, 1989 "Democracy", Dia Art Foundation, 77 Wooster Street, New York October 1 November 14, 1987 "Constitution", The Temple Gallery, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia September 15 October 8, 1988 "Democracy: Education", Dia Art Foundation, 77 Wooster Street, New York October 15 November 12, 1988 "Democracy: Politics and Election", Dia Art Foundation, 77 Wooster Street, New York November 19 December 10, 1988 "Democracy: Cultural Participation", Dia Art Foundation, 77 Wooster Street, New York December 19, 1968 January 14, 1989 "Democracy: AIDS and Democracy: A Case Study", Dia Art Foundation, 77 Wooster Street, New York December 16, 1988 February 13, 1989 "AIDS & Democracy" aka "Elegy", Vollbild AIDS, RealismusStudio, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin June 1 December 1, 1989 "Unisex", The Center Show, The Lesbian and Gay Community Center, New York October 14 November 26, 1989 "Shopping Bag", Shopping bags distributed in local shops and department stores, D&S Ausstellung, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany November 11, 1989 January 28, 1990 "AIDS Timeline", Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley February 23 March 30, 1990 "Your Message Here", Billboard project, Collaboration with Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago June 26 July 5, 1990 "Democracy Poll", Insert in Der Togesspiegel, U-Bahn station, billboards, and an electronic billboard, RealismusStudio, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin September 1 30, 1990 "AIDS & Insurance", Exterior bus advertisement, sponsored by Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT September 30 November 18, 1990 "AIDS Timeline", Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Athanaeum, Hartford, CT October 26, 1990 January 13, 1991 "Collaboration" aka "Economics: Oberlin Project", "Social Studies: 4+4 Young Americans", The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio April 19 June 23, 1991 "AIDS Timeline" (New York City 1991), 1991 Whitney Biennial, lobby gallery, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York December 17 20, 1991 "Cash Prize", Advertisements in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, In Public: Seattle 1991, The Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington October 8 December 31, 1993 "Tomorrow", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA October 19, 1993 January 23, 1994 "Democracy Wall", In And Out Of Place, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston May 6 June 18, 1995 "Market", Kunstverein München, Munich June 7 23, 1996 "Program", Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA Bibliography: Bibliography Ashford, D. (2006). A conversation on social collaboration. Art Journal, 65(2), 58-82. doi: 10.2307/20068466 Ault, J., Wallis, B., Weems, M., & Yenawine, P. (1999). Art matters: How the culture wars changed America. New York: New York University Press. Ault, J. (2002). Alternative art, New York: 1965-1985. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press & New York: The Drawing Center. Avgikos, J. (1995). Group Material Timeline: Activism as a work of art. In Nina Felshin, (Ed.), But is it art? (pp. 85-116). Seattle: Bay Press. Fairbrother, T. J., Potts, K., & Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (1993). In and out of place: contemporary Art and the American social landscape. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.), & Temple Gallery (Philadelphia, Pa.). (1987). Constitution. Philadelphia, PA: Temple Gallery. Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.), & Ault, J. (ed.) (2010). Show and tell: A chronicle of Group Material. London: Four Corners Books. Lippard, L. R. (1984). Get the message?: A decade of art for social change. New York: E.P. Dutton. Olander, W. (1989, January). Material world. Art in America, 167, 123–128. Wallis, B., Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.), & Dia Art Foundation. (1990). Democracy: A project. Seattle: Bay Press & New York: Dia Art Foundation. From the guide to the Group Material Archive, Bulk, 1979-1996, 1976-2009, (© 2012 Fales Library and Special Collections)

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