Exhibitions
Founded in 1972, the Clocktower Gallery has been a legendary space which has presented seminal works in all media by artists including Richard Tuttle, Gordon Matta-Clark, Max Neuhaus, Lynda Benglis, Dennis Oppenheim, and Laurie Anderson. Today, the Clocktower continues this tradition with exhibition programs that support and promote the work of a new generation of artists including James Franco, Anna Jóelsdóttir, Michael Stipe, and Japanther.
Open May 23, Nervescape, a colorful, organic, and beastly installation by Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka Shoplifter with sound by Kría Brekkan in the Clocktower's upper gallery. On view through the summer, Tues.-Fri., noon-5 pm.
On view May 23 - August: This exhibition consists of 16 photographs of prisoners, by prisoners, using prisoner created painted backdrops featuring a fantasy scene of life outside, as collected and documented by artist Dave Adler.
Now on view: Canyon Candy is a site-specific gallery installation, immersive soundscape and video screening bringing to life a Western-themed music video collaboration between filmmaker Mike Anderson and the band Javelin. Tues.-Fri. noon-5pm.
The Clocktower Gallery presents surge, a site-specific installation by Chicago-based Icelandic artist Anna Jóelsdóttir.
Collapse Into Now Film Project, an exhibition of film commissioned by Michael Stipe for R.E.M's new album, Collapse Into Now.
Giant Noise Toy is an interactive sound sculpture built by the audio art trio Loud Objects during their Audio Art Production Residency at the Clocktower Gallery in October 2010.
The Dangerous Book Four Boys is a multi-disciplinary survey of work by James Franco that brings together a large selection of experimental films, photographs, drawings, and explores themes of childhood and nostalgia, games and destruction.
Long-term Installations
Created as part of their Emerging Artist Residency at the Clocktower, Japather's Phone Booth is an interactive sound sculpture featuring the stories of fellow travelers recorded, and now broadcast, through the receiver of a vintage telephone booth.
Theme for a Major Hit, 1974. “It ain’t what you make, it’s what makes you do it," by Dennis Oppenheim.
Sabina Streeter's Where Eagles Dare installation references the usage of radio and technology toward propagandistic ends.
In Two Lane Blacktop, Mary Heilmann's simple white lines transform the Clocktower corridor into a displaced highway.
Todd Eberle’s Hi-Fi series of large color photographs depicts mid-century audio equipment and advertisements.
Tony Oursler's Five Take Radius lines the Clocktower corridor with an installation of his well-known "talking light bulbs".
Ellen Harvey's landscapes (part of the 1999-2001 New York Beautification Project series) hide in the Clocktower staircase and boiler room.
Max Neuhaus's Clocktower Installation drawing is a plan for an installation in the artist's 1979 solo exhibition at the Clocktower.
The fading and graffiti-ed Blip at the top of a stairwell is a remaining testimonial to Artschwager's 1977 Clocktower solo show.
OFTEN REPLAYED (PLAYED AGAIN) is a poetic message from Lawrence Weiner, a Clocktower friend and leader of the artist community.
