images from the Whitney Biennial

I’ve uploaded below some two dozen images of work from this year’s Whitney Biennial, but I’m not suggesting they represent anything but a sampling of the work in the show, especially since I’m not going to include any notes.
Some of these works appear here mostly because I liked the image I was able to capture, even if it may be little more than an abstraction. For instance, by description alone any still from a film or video is an abstraction. A certain number of the choices were favored both for the image and the work, but I have no illusions about representing the artist’s creation.
Oh yes, the Whitney has the its own images, but honestly, I haven’t looked at the site. For the purposes of this blog, as usual, I just can’t resist trying to show original images of original work.


Dan Colen


Mark Bradford


Nari Ward


Marc di Suvero, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and others


[complete title of Jordan Wolfson’s video installation]


Jordan Wolfson


Trisha Donnelly


Kenneth Anger



Jim O’Rourke [two details]


Jutta Koether


Steven Parrino


Deva Graf


Kerry Tribe [in the Wrong Gallery installation]


David Wojnarowicz [in the Wrong Gallery installation]


Kota Ezawa


Franceco Vezzoli


Coup d’Eclat


[label for the Coup d’Eclat installation]


Tony Oursler, with Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Laurent P. Berger, and Japanther


Michael Snow


Billy Sullivan


Deep Dish TV [“The Real Face of Occupation”]

I did say this was just a press preview. As we left the Museum we looked for Aaron Young’s work outside on the sidewalk, but it seems there had been some delay in its completion. Another bicyclist had locked his own machine to the designated bike rack located outside the Whitney’s front door, holding up Young’s installation. Just as we first spotted the still-incomplete piece, the artist returned to continue its assembly. The artist and the curators anticipate that once it is attached to the rack the shiny locked bike will gradually disappear during the term of the Biennial.