Description
White Columns is New York's oldest alternative nonprofit art space, at 91 Horatio Street in the West Village, near the Whitney Museum and the High Line. It shows emerging artists who have no commercial gallery behind them.
Its exhibitions come largely from work that artists send in: the director looks at all of it, visits some studios and chooses who to show. Each year the White Columns Annual, with a guest curator, gathers work seen around New York in the previous twelve months.
It began in 1970 in SoHo as 112 Workshop, at 112 Greene Street, founded by the artists Jeffrey Lew and Gordon Matta-Clark. It took its present name in 1979, and over the years its walls have shown Kiki Smith, Andres Serrano, Lorna Simpson, Sarah Sze and even the band Sonic Youth.
Its exhibitions come largely from work that artists send in: the director looks at all of it, visits some studios and chooses who to show. Each year the White Columns Annual, with a guest curator, gathers work seen around New York in the previous twelve months.
It began in 1970 in SoHo as 112 Workshop, at 112 Greene Street, founded by the artists Jeffrey Lew and Gordon Matta-Clark. It took its present name in 1979, and over the years its walls have shown Kiki Smith, Andres Serrano, Lorna Simpson, Sarah Sze and even the band Sonic Youth.