OCULEUM | GATES OF HECK | KEY GALLERY | KATHARINE GATES
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Key Gallery,
1991-1993 |
A gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Katharine Gates was the curator, owner (starting in 1992), designer and publicist. |
Baldwin + Hompson |
Collaborators DAVI DET HOMPSON AND CLIFF BALDWIN create cast aluminum plaques and giant canvas and metal paintings of awkward, funny and disturbing words. Hompson was a member of Fluxus. Baldwin is a filmmaker and designer. |  |
Craig Pleasants: Not by the Hair on my Chinny Chin Chin |
The story of the three little pigs becomes the inspiration for a series of bed-like sculptures made of foraged materials. Flimsy, uncomfortable, and yet sparely beautiful. A meditation on home and homelessness. Read a review by CeCeBullard of the Richmond Times-Dispatch HERE. |  |
Timothy Blum: I'm In It For the Money |
Blum explores the relationship between money and the art world, with tongue-in-cheek limited-edition counterfeit pennies and busts of Abraham Lincoln. |  |
The Art of Hitler |
New York photographer and curator STEVEN KASHER gathered artifacts, photographs and books that examine the relationship of the Nazi Government and Adolf Hitler to art, design, and photography. This exhibition later traveled to the Contemporary Art Institute. |  |
Out of Site! |
Presented in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University. Site-specific installations by 11 graduate students of VCU's Sculpture Department. |  |
The Tinklers |
Charles Brohawn and Chris Mason, aka THE TINKLERS are known for their music (NPR radio) and their paintings and sculptures which explore the disjunctions in man's relationship to nature. |  |
| The Homeless Vote: Craig Pleasants 9/1-24, 1992 |
Virginia-based installation artist CRAIG PLEASANTS covers the windows of the gallery with wallpaper representing the 100,000 faces of homeless Virginians in an examination of the Virginia law that permits barring homeless people from registering to vote. |  |
| Artists Who Teach 8/20-27, 1992 |
Key hosts an exhibition curated by the ARTS COUNCIL OF RICHMOND. | |
| Contrary to the Ordinary: Furniture Design 6/20-7/21, 1992 |
Innovative furniture design for the '90s, curated by Craig Biddle. Artists included DAVID HESS, TRACY SIGLER, JAMES DeMUTH, SARA McCOLLUM, and CHARLES YEAGER. |  |
| Picto-Fiction '92: Charles Burns & Gary Panter 5/1-6/14, 1992 |
Original art from their celebrated graphic novels Jimbo and Big Baby, plus paintings and prints by GARY PANTER and CHARLES BURNS. Coincides with the publication of Gates of Heck's book FACETASM. |  |
| The Caryl Burtner Collections 3/13-4/30, 1992 |
CARYL BURTNER collects the minutiae of daily life: her work represents a lifetime commitment to documenting her everyday existence, from toothbrushes to lipstick blots. Curated by Cindy Neuschwander. Reviewed in The New Art Examiner. | 
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| New Work, NY: Ralph Fleming and Tony Cokes 1/24-3/28, 1992 |
Richmond-to-New York emigres Fleming and Cokes both work in a decollage/montage style. RALPH FLEMING's painterly framed wall pieces are made from scraps torn from bilboards.TONY COKES' video installation for the gallery windows combines found footage and text about the LA riots of the 1970s. Tony Cokes' work was chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Reviewed in The New Art Examiner. |  |
| Toys are U. S. 12/6, 1991-1/9,1992 |
Over 35 artists from around the world created limited-edition toys and games for Key. Includes works by GWAR, Mark Dion, ArtFux, Joan Rabascall and many more. Existence Research Projects created a giant interactive Rube Goldberg device in a the basement art space. |  |
| A-Fresh-Air-Cure: Baltimore Glass Man 10/25-12/1, 1991 |
Baltimore outsider PAUL THE GLASS MAN applies colored glass and paint to found wood and scraps, with words inspired by musical lyrics and his unique patriotic world view. | |
| Vital Signs 9/20-10/12, 1991 |
Leslie Brothers and Cathy Emerson curated this invitational exhibition of 35 Virginia artists who created works exploring the issue of AIDS. A benefit for Richmond for Life. |  |
| Nine is a Four-Letter Word 7/19-8/10, 1991 |
Five artists and artist/collaborators were invited to Richmond to create letterpress posters at one of the East Coast's last large-scale letterpress poster companies. Curated by Davi Det Hompson, the limited edition poster set and exhibition included works by AQUI (Hompson and Cliff Baldwin), Ann Fessler, Kay Rosen, Carolee Schneemann and The Tinklers . This exhibition has toured to Bucholz+Bucholz in Cologne Germany, The Philadelphia Print Club, The Peninsula Fine Arts Center, and Cornell University. The portfolio is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NYC and Cornell University. Reviewed in New Art Examiner and Art Papers. |  |
| Residence on Earth: Lorianne Ellison 6/14-7/13,1991 |
Lorianne Ellison's paintings on glass, wood, and found objects conjure dreams and poetic imagery. Reviewed in Art Papers | 
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| Denise Burge/Andrew Harper 4/26-6/1, 1991 |
Denise Burge creates multi-panel canvasses with brooding, dark landscapes. Andrew Harper's large floor works made of raw lumber evoke the land and architecture of ancient Greece. |  |
| COUNTERMEDIA 3/8-4/21, 1991 |
Featuring artists such as Hans Haacke, Edgar Heap of Birds, Paper Tiger Television, David Hammons and Mark Dion, Countermedia explored the role the media plays in our perception of the world. Curated by Katharine Gates. Reviewed in New Art Examiner. |  |
