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Reisig and Taylor Contemporary is presenting Blue Print, the first installation in a series of “Gallery Structures” constructed by the gallery. The exhibit(ion), Gallery Structure (0), will be open for one week only (with special hours running Monday through Friday 12:00pm to 4:00pm).

The series of Gallery Structures is a critical and formal curatorial engagement with the structure of the gallery. Without identified artists, and without authorized “artworks,” the series situates a literal encounter with the space of the gallery as a work (of art) in itself. Habitually, the gallery is often regarded as a non-conscious or passive space where art is propped-up or placed; however, the materials, motifs, and histories of the gallery-space are always already structuring the possibilities of encountering an artwork (and pre-configuring the perspectives of observation). This series shows the ways in which the gallery circularly writes itself (writing). This is an effort to build a gallery and curated program that is capable of viewing itself… of giving an account of itself.

As the initial inquiry into the questions of the agency of the gallery-space, Blue Print is the gallery’s way of putting the (invisible or otherwise understated) act of the gallery (back) into the spaces, times, and systems at work in the physical housing and location of Reisig and Taylor Contemporary at 2680 South La Cienega Boulevard. Directly, “Blue Print” asks: What is the structure of the gallery? What is the structure of the curatorial act? And, how can these structures be deconstructed, exhibited, endured, shown, or demonstrated without repressing its underlying processes and components? 

Responding to these basic questions of space, time, and exhibition, the work forms an immersive “blueprint” of the gallery by awakening latent elements and perennial forms permeating the gallery’s structure, dreaming what the gallery conceals in the silence of its sleep. This is a work with the presences and absences of the gallery-space. Marking time, each work will change form throughout the course of the exhibit.

{Built by objet A.D (object 80).}

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