ARTISTS SPACE ARCHIVE NOW AVAILABLE FROM TRB

The Artists Space Archive is now available from TRB.

ARTISTS SPACE ARCHIVE – pdf RS

ARTISTS SPACE, NEW YORK, 1972–PRESENT

SoHo stalwart Artists Space was founded by Trudie Grace and the art historian and critic Irving Sandler in 1972 under the aegis of the New York State Council on the Arts upstairs from Paula Cooper‘s gallery on Wooster Street. Initially run on the artists-curating-artists model, the organization has consistently put the support of emerging artists at the top of its institutional agenda throughout its four decades of existence, beginning with the Irving Sandler Artists File, an extensive resource for artists and curators that extends the gallery’s community-based approach beyond New York. The gallery is widely recognized for its adventurous exhibition program, which finds its precedent in the seminal 1977 exhibition “Pictures,” organized by Douglas Crimp and including the work of Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, and Philip Smith. Fun fact: Cindy Sherman used to work as a secretary at Artists Space, dressing up in costumes at the office and befriending her colleague Helene Winer, who later became her dealer at Metro Pictures.