#Tim Rollins and K.O.S.

[artbookdap]

This may be a holiday week, but for us it's still a chance to highlight standout new releases that support the resilience and optimism we want for 2023. Thus, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's "The Beautyful Ones," Series #7 (2018) from 'To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood,' published to accompany the exhibition currently on view at @icaboston surveying the ways artists have reflected on and contributed to notions of childhood from the early twentieth century to the present. ⁠ ⁠ The editors write: "Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s portraits of Nigerian youth, built from a layered ground of historical, popular and personal photographs transferred to canvas, stage the interactions between sociohistorical conditions and the individual that are at the heart of human development. Her young figures return the viewer’s gaze with an uncanny self-possession and wisdom beyond their years." ⁠ ⁠ Artists include Ann Agee, John Ahearn, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Francis Alÿs, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brian Belott, Jordan Casteel, Lenka Clayton, Allan Rohan Crite, Henry Darger, Karon Davis, Robert Gober, Jay Lynn Gomez, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Duane Hanson, Mona Hatoum, Sharon Hayes, Ekua Holmes, Mary Kelly, Paul Klee, Justine Kurland, Helen Levitt, Tau Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Oscar Murillo, Rivane Neuenschwander, Berenice Olmedo, Charles Ray, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Rachel Rose, Heji Shin, Sable Elyse Smith, Becky Suss, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Cathy Wilkes and Carmen Winant.⁠ ⁠ Copublished by @delmonico_books⁠ ⁠ Edited with text by @jeffreydeblois & @rutherickson ⁠ Foreword by #jillmedv. ⁠ Text by @sirjoshbennett Anna Craycroft, Anne Higonnet, @valeria_luiselli ⁠ Interviews with @naimajoy @lacachepli @sable_elyse @mlukeles & @carmen.winant⁠ ⁠ @njidekaakunyilicrosby #njidekaakunyilicrosby #thebeautyfulones #tobeginagain #artistsandchildhood⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmwvd9LJLOU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gaiusozarkus]

Amerika I Tim Rollins K.O.S.

[sardens]

Tim Rollins and K.O.S. - A Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

[jgthirlwell]

'Amerika The Stoker' by Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids Of Survival) at the Perez Museum in Miami

[contemporaryartdaily]

Group Show at Chantal Crousel

[ruiard]

Tim Rollins and K.O.S. - On the Origin of Species - Variation I (after Darwin)

Ink, matte acrylic, book pages on canvas, 182.9 × 366.5 × 4 cm, 2013

[skf-fineart]

TIM ROLLINS and K.O.S. (American, 1955-2017)

Untitled (The Revelation of the Letter), 1993

Metallic paint and gouache on book, 7" x 9 ¼" x 1"

[publiccollectors]

I'm saddened by the news that Tim Rollins has died at the far too young age of 62. His work with Kids of Survival (and before that, with Group Material) was always something to think about, celebrate, challenge, and wrestle with. A big regret I have from undergrad was being invited to a dinner with him by one of my professors and saying no, because I hadn't done the work to learn who he was and I'm not even sure I attended his lecture. So stupid. Later I was at least fortunate enough to hear him speak a couple times in Chicago.   Today I am at Harold Washington Library, where their Chicago Authors Room features thirty-two works on paper by Tim Rollins and K.O.S. The piece is titled "AMERIKA - FOR THE AUTHORS OF CHICAGO" (1990-91). I gave a lecture on Public Collectors in this room several years ago. It's a special space. You can see into it through the glass doors, but it's normally kept locked. I approached the security guard that is stationed at a desk just outside the room and asked if it was open. He said no. I said, "The artist that made the artwork in this room just died, and I'd like to pay my respects. Is it possible to unlock it for just a few minutes?" Still the answer was a quick no. He could have at least checked with someone, and the library couldn't possibly be less busy on this freezing day, but he didn't. I was angry. I walked away, but didn't want to let this pass. I walked around the room and took a photo through the glass doors on the other side, but was still irritated. After taking a minute to chill out, I went back to the 7th floor and approached a friendly and receptive librarian named Sandra. I explained the situation, and the importance of Harold Washington Library having this work permanently installed. We looked at Tim Rollins' obituary which is up on Art News' website and the example they chose to illustrate his work looks very similar to the smaller works in the library's collection. After consulting with someone else on staff, Sandra returned, grabbed the key, and was kind enough to unlock the door for me and let me have about ten minutes with the work by myself. I was a little sorry that the guard had moved from his post during this time - not because I felt like I wanted to rub it in (okay, maybe a little bit), but because he should know that this work is treasured and this life and collaboration should be celebrated. My hope is that now that I've made a couple librarians aware of Tim Rollins' passing, they'll be able to keep the room open for public viewing beyond the sporadic events that are held in this space. It's a beautiful thing to see, and one of the more considerable art projects in a building that is filled with art on every floor.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Tim Rollins & K.O.S.  An Index

Edited by Alessandro Rabottini

Texts by Nicholas Cullinan, Nikola Dietrich, Suzanne Hudson, Alessandro Rabottini, Andrea Viliani

Jrp/Editions, Zurich 2011, 224 pages, 21x24,7 cm., ISBN  978-3037642412

euro 40,00

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Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) have been collaboratively drawing and painting on book pages since 1982. The publication has been conceived as a guide to this work, analysing the group's artistic method from its inception through to today. The aim is to set up an index that gathers together all the books on which the group has worked: each one is discussed based on the reasons for its selection, alongside images of the work itself. The book contains critical essays by Nicholas Cullinan, Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Modern in London, and Suzanne Hudson, Associate Professor of Art History at the Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, as well as a conversation between Tim Rollins and Alessandro Rabottini, Nikola Dietrich, Curator of the Museum f��r Gegenwartskunst in Basel, and Andrea Viliani, Director of the Fondazione Galleria Civica in Trento.Tim Rollins was an artist, teacher and activist who began his career as the assistant of the conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth. In 1979, he founded Group Material in New York. In the early 1980s, he taught ‘at risk' students with learning disabilities at Intermediate School 52 in the Bronx and went on to create the Art & Knowledge Workshop. His highly acclaimed collaboration with the members of K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) continued for many years. Rollins combined lessons in reading and writing with making artworks. The source material laid out and studied by the students generally related to literary or musical classics, such as works by William Shakespeare, George Orwell, Ralph Ellison or Franz Schubert, but can also include comics or legal documents. Their collaborative work took the form of drawings, photographs, sculptural objects and paintings on canvas and paper. The backgrounds of works are often comprised of pages of books pasted into a grid. The results blend elements of Minimalism with an interest in the revival of painting that took place in the 1980s and in art that is socially and politically engaged. Tim Rollins was born in 1955 in Pittsfield and died in 2017 in New York. The original K.O.S. members dispersed and now live in several different American cities. Some have gone on to become artists in their own right. Tim Rollins and K.O.S. have been involved in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennale in New York in 1985, 1991 and 2006 and Documenta in Kassel in 1987.

20/03/22

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[mimeticspace]

Tim Rollins and K.O.S.

[philamuseum]

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of contemporary artist Tim Rollins. Starting in the 1980s, Rollins created collaborative work with Kids of Survival (K.O.S.), a group of teenage students in New York's South Bronx, that brought together activism and art.

“Amerika VII,” 1986–87, by Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) 

[moma-prints]

IX from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV, Tim Rollins, K.O.S., 1989, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art Size: plate: 8 7/16 x 5 3/8" (21.4 x 13.6 cm); sheet: 22 1/4 x 14 15/16" (56.5 x 38 cm) Medium: One from a portfolio of fourteen aquatints on xerograph with chine collé

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/109119

[thephilosopheroftheboudoir]

Kim Jong Un by Tim Rollins and K.O.S.

[moodoofoo]

Tim Rollins and K.O.S. By any means necessary - Trapped/Caught, 1985-1987 black gesso on book pages mounted on linen 21 x 28 inches

[mentaltimetraveller]

Tim Rollins and K.O.S. / Galerie Eva Presenhuber. Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich

[ruiard]

Tim Rollins and K.O.S. - The Time Machine XI (after H.G. Wells)

Matte acrylic, pencil, book pages on canvas, 182.9 × 182.9 × 4 cm, 2013