112 Workshop

From 1970 to 1980 112 Workshop was an Artists-run studio and exhibition space that helped to define Minimal conceptual art and Post-conceptual art practice in New York City. It was founded by Jeffrey Lew and Gordon Matta-Clark at 112 Greene Street in Soho.[1] The space contributed to the development of Conceptual art and Postmodern dance of the early 1970s and Post-conceptual art in the late-1970s.[2] In 1979 it relocated to Spring Street, and was renamed White Columns.[3]

Participating artists

At 112 Workshop, artists were given free rein to produce, experiment and challenge art orthodoxies. In this crumbling large space, Gordon Matta-Clark installed his work Walls Paper in 1972.[4] Other shows at 112 Workshop included artists[5] such as Alan Saret, George Trakas, Walter de Maria, Kiki Smith, Susan Rothenberg, Richard Nonas, Carl Andre, Tina Girouard, Nancy Wilson-Pajic, Suzanne Harris, Jene Highstein, Larry Miller, Rosemarie Castoro, Richard Serra, Amy Sillman, Marjorie Strider, Vito Acconci, Alice Aycock, Louise Bourgeois, Ronnie Cutrone, William Wegman, Patrick Ireland, G. H. Hovagimyan, Jean Dupuy, John Stascak, Mabou Mines, dancer Rachel Wood, and many others. Vito Acconci locked himself in a tiny room with a fighting cock in a piece he called Combination (1971).[6] Following their first New York performance at the Leo Castelli Gallery, Richard Landry and Musicians presented five concerts at 112 in March of 1972 and Carmen Beuchat presented her dance/performance Mass in C B Minor or the Brown Table the same year (1972).

Homage Exhibition

In 2011, David Zwirner Gallery presented the exhibition 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974).

Notes
  1. 112 Greene Street: The Soho that Used to Be, at Hyperallergic
  2. Brentano, Robyn and Mark Savitt, eds. 112 Workshop/ 112 Greene Street History, Artists & ArtworksNew York University Press, New York. 1981
  3. "About". White Columns. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  4. 112 Greene Street as Site, Tate Museum
  5. White Columns 112 Workshop Archive
  6. 112 Greene Street: The Soho that Used to Be, at Hyperallergic

References
  • Jessamyn Fiore (ed.), 112 Greene Street: The Early Years, 1970–1974, Radius Books, 2012
  • Krenz, Marcel. Random Order. Flash Art. July–Sept. 2003: 67–69.
  • Brenson, Michael. 'Structures,' Exhibition at White Columns. The New York Times. December 13, 1985
  • Robyn Brentano and Mark Savitt (eds.), 112 Workshop/112 Greene Street: History, Artists & Artwork, New York University Press, 1981

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