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{{Short description|Non-profit gallery in New York City}}
[[File:Door to White Columns art gallery.jpg|thumb|Previous location of White Columns, at 320 West 13th Street, New York City. |297x297px]]
'''White Columns''' is New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit space.<ref>Krenz, Marcel. ''Random Order.'' Flash Art. July-Sept. 2003: 67.</ref> White Columns is known as a showcase for up-and-coming artists, and is primarily devoted to emerging artists who are not affiliated with galleries. All work submitted is looked at by the director. Some of the artists receive studio visits and some of those artists are exhibited. White Columns maintained a slide registry of emerging artists, which is now an online curated artist registry.▼
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▲'''White Columns''' is New York
==History and locations==
White Columns was founded in 1970 in the [[SoHo]] neighborhood of New York City by Jeffrey Lew and [[Gordon Matta-Clark]]. It was then known as
In 1979 it relocated to 325 [[Spring Street (Manhattan)|Spring Street]]
In 1991 it moved to [[Christopher Street]] in [[Greenwich Village]]
Since being founded, White Columns has supported and provided exposure to hundreds of artists including [[Alice Aycock]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Asphalt Flat/ Cloud Formation Project|url=http://www.whitecolumns.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/381|work=White Columns|access-date=June 12, 2013|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305185248/https://www.whitecolumns.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/381|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Stephen Laub]],<ref name="laub">{{cite web|url=https://www.whitecolumns.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/134 |title=Archive |publisher=White Columns |access-date=2018-09-21}}</ref> [[Willoughby Sharp]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Willoughby Sharp: Inside Out|url=http://www.whitecolumns.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/411|work=White Columns|access-date=June 12, 2013|archive-date=April 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403054140/http://www.whitecolumns.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/411|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Kiki Smith]],<ref>{{cite web|title=September '81|url=http://www.whitecolumns.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/757|work=White Columns}}</ref> [[Sonic Youth]],<ref>{{cite
In 2006, director [[Matthew Higgs]] initiated the White Columns Annual, a yearly exhibition with guest curators that highlights work that has been on view in New York City in the prior year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fateman |first=Johanna |date=2022-03-01 |title=“Looking Back: The 12th White Columns Annual” |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/johanna-fateman-on-looking-back-the-12th-white-columns-annual-249632/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Wise |first=Lloyd |date=2014-05-01 |title=“Looking Back: The 8th White Columns Annual” |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/looking-back-the-8th-white-columns-annual-205151/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref> It has been curatored by artists and art figures like [[Mary Manning (photographer)|Mary Manning]], [[Bridget Donahue]], Bob Nickas, Pati Hertling, and Randy Kennedy.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Diehl |first=Travis |date=2024-01-24 |title=At White Columns Annual, Outsiders Mix With Insiders |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/arts/design/white-columns-annual-art-gallery.html |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Munro |first=Cait |date=2015-01-15 |title=Understanding 2014 at White Columns's Annual |url=https://news.artnet.com/market/making-sense-of-2014-at-the-white-columns-annual-220974 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=2010-12-23 |title=‘LOOKING BACK’: ‘The Fifth White Columns Annual’ |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/arts/design/24galleries-LOOKINGBACK_RVW.html |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Discography==▼
* ''Noise Festival Tape'' (1982) TSoWC White Columns▼
== 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, Manhattan|Soho]].<ref>[https://hyperallergic.com/55653/112-greene-street-the-soho-that-used-to-be/] 112 Greene Street: The Soho that Used to Be, at [[Hyperallergic]]</ref> The space contributed to the development of [[Conceptual art]] and [[Postmodern dance]] of the early 1970s and [[Post-conceptual art]] in the late-1970s.<ref>Brentano, Robyn and Mark Savitt, eds. 112 Workshop/ 112 Greene Street History, ''Artists & Artworks''New York University Press, New York. 1981</ref> In 1979 it relocated to 325 [[Spring Street (Manhattan)|Spring Street]], and was renamed '''White Columns.'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=About|url=https://whitecolumns.org/about/|access-date=2022-01-26|website=White Columns|language=en}}</ref>
===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.<ref>[https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/walls-paper/112-greene-street] 112 Greene Street as Site, Tate Museum</ref> Vito Acconci locked himself in a tiny room with a [[fighting cock]] in a piece he called ''Combination'' (1971).<ref>[https://hyperallergic.com/55653/112-greene-street-the-soho-that-used-to-be/] 112 Greene Street: The Soho that Used to Be, at [[Hyperallergic]]</ref> Following their first New York performance at the [[Leo Castelli]] Gallery, Richard Landry and Musicians presented five concerts at 112 in March 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==
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==References==
* Jessamyn Fiore (ed.), ''112 Greene Street: The Early Years, 1970–1974'', Radius Books, 2012
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* Krenz, Marcel.
* 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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▲==Discography==
==References==
* Krenz, Marcel. “Random Order.” Flash Art. July–Sept. 2003: 67–69.
* [http://www.whitecolumns.org/text.html?type=history White Columns History]
* Brenson, Michael. "'Structures,' Exhibition at White Columns." The New York Times.
==External links==
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* [http://www.whitecolumns.org/ White Columns]
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