AM at the JM

Allan McCollum in Conversation with Jens Hoffmann

Talk

Tuesday, March 31, 2015
8 – 9:30 am
Think Coffee, Union Square, 123 4th Ave, NYC

A breakfast salon for the 21st century that takes place in the early hours of the day at Think Coffee, Union Square, hosted by the Jewish Museum.

Artist Allan McCollum and Jens Hoffmann, Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Jewish Museum, will discuss the artist's recent projects and the Jewish Museum’s exhibition Repetition and Difference.

Allan McCollum (b. 1944) was born in Los Angeles, California and now lives and works in New York. He has spent over 40 years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing recently on collaborations with small community historical society museums in different parts of the world. In 2005, he designed The Shapes Project, a system to produce "a completely unique shape for every person on the planet, without repeating." His first solo exhibition was in 1971, and his first New York showing was in an exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1972. He moved to New York in 1975, and in the late 1970s he became especially well known for his series, Surrogate Paintings.

McCollum has had over 100 solo exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Lille, France (1998); the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (1995-96); the Serpentine Gallery, London (1990); the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden (1990); IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain (1990); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1989), and Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (1988). He has produced public art projects in the United States and Europe, and his works are held in over 70 art museum collections worldwide.

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Coffee and conversation are free!

Allan McCollum, Collection of Thirty Drawings, 1988/1992. Graphite pencil on museum board. Dimensions variable. Installation Dimensions: 47.3 × 132 inches; 111.5 × 335 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York