Clocktower Gallery

Past Exhibitions

Since its inception in 1972, the Clocktower Gallery has presented exhibitions by pioneering contemporary artists, including Gordon Matta-Clark, Max Neuhaus, Lynda Benglis, Dennis Oppenheim, Vito Acconci, Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, Laurie Anderson, Marina Abramović, and Christian Marclay, among many others. The Clocktower continues this legacy by presenting work by emerging, underrecognized, and experimental artists in all media.

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Papo Colo: Assorted Times in Singular Spaces is an exhibition of works on paper and poetry by Papo Colo, presented in the Clocktower’s historic Upper Gallery, and exploring the composition of poetry as visual imagination.

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Papo Colo: Assorted Times in Singular Spaces
2/5/13 - 5/3/13

Dark Paradise exemplifies a discourse and story telling through the canon of landscape imagery. With Antony, Zipora Fried, Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Thiago Rocha Pitta, and Patti Smith.

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Dark Paradise
2/5/13 - 5/3/13

Alex Katz, a leading figure painter of the new realism movement in contemporary art, has created a limited edition of 30 prints. Available for sale, proceeds benefit the Clocktower Gallery and its radio station.

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Alex Katz, Hard Days Ahead
12/20/11 - 12/31/12

A robotic network of bells, chimes and gongs that envelops visitors in meditative tones and story-like polyphonies, composed by artist A Taylor Kuffner and presented in the Clocktower Main Gallery.

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The Gamelatron Jalan Jiwo
9/18/12 - 12/18/12

Nervescape, a hugely colorful, organic, and devilishly ticklish installation and experience by Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka Shoplifter with sound by Kría Brekkan in the Clocktower's upper gallery.

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Shoplifter's Nervescape
5/23/12 - 11/9/12

Closing Friday, August 31! 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.

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Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside
5/22/12 - 8/31/12

Canyon Candy is a site-specific installation, immersive soundscape, and video screening bringing to life a Western-themed music video collaboration between filmmaker Mike Anderson and the band Javelin.

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Canyon Candy
12/20/11 - 7/26/12

The Clocktower Gallery presents Above The Law, a performance and installation series highlighting young and emerging artists, musicians, and co-conspirators.

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Above the Law
2/25/11 - 12/31/11

A motor-driven marionette by Dennis Oppenheim, Theme for a Major Hit waltzes to the artist’s original sound piece, “It ain’t what you make, it’s what makes you do it," 1974.

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Theme for a Major Hit, 1974
2/17/11 - 10/19/11

The Clocktower Gallery presented surge, a site-specific installation by Chicago-based Icelandic artist Anna Jóelsdóttir.

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surge
5/18/11 - 10/1/11

Moral Kombat asks: "Who plays the most moral music?" Hosted by composer G Lucas Crane, this bi-weekly performance series is free and open to the public.

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Moral Kombat
1/3/11 - 6/28/11

Collapse Into Now Film Project, an exhibition of film commissioned by Michael Stipe for R.E.M's new album, Collapse Into Now.

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Collapse Into Now Film Project
3/30/11 - 5/6/11

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.

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Giant Noise Toy
10/6/10 - 2/25/11

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.

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The Dangerous Book Four Boys
6/22/10 - 12/31/10
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