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[moma-prints]

Social Project 2, Jackson Mac Low, 1963, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift Size: sheet: 3 x 4 15/16" (7.6 x 12.6 cm) Medium: Typewriting on cardstock with stamps and postal cancellation

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/127459

[ginzyblog]

Kodak-Retina snapshot of William Burroughs, kitchen 1953 Lower East Side, Jackson MacLow portrait w/recorder by Iris Brodey on wall. We were working on Bill’s S.A. letters (Yage Letters), I had job on N.Y. World Telegram.  (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

[theideaofthebook]

The third and largest issue of the envelope magazine ‘ABC’ where the ‘editorial policy was to accept everything that arrives in 200 copies by the (flexible) deadline.’ Edited by Jeremy Adler and published by The National Poetry Centre, featuring concrete and visual poetry by artists from across the world including G. J. de Rook, Betty Radin, Jennifer Pike, bpNichol, Maurizio Nannuci, Jackson Mac Low, Dom Sylvester Houedard (dsh), P. C. Fencott, Paul Dutton, Bob Cobbing, among others. Sold.

[the-drawing-center]

Anne Tardos, Jackson Mac Low’s widow: “Many of the works in this exhibition were discovered after his death. One might say, they could only be discovered then. He had kept his drawings and collages safely, but he completely lost track of them, sometimes painfully suspecting the works as having been stolen. I had to go through the enormous accumulation of this artist’s life’s work, and in doing this, I discovered many long lost items, in particular the original, hand drawn Light Poems Chart. In the decade following his death, I edited three large, posthumous volumes of his works: Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works (University of California Press, 2008); 154 Forties (Counterpath, 2012); and The Complete Light Poems 1–60, with Michael O’Driscoll (Chax Press, 2015).” All three books are available in our bookshop. If you can’t come to The Drawing Center, please email our book store manager Kate Robinson your inquiries: krobinson@drawingcenter.org #JacksonMacLow #AnneTardos #poems #books (at The Drawing Center)

[wilmurrayworld]

Pieces O' Six 4, 2016 Acrylic paint, silver gelatin prints, photo oils, masking tape, Masonite, wood. This series has been underway since this time last year, number 4 was started in okotoks and finished in Berlin. #wilmurray #canadianart #Berlin #vitrinegallery #jacksonmaclow #albertaarts (at Josef-Orlopp-Str)

[ginzyblog]

Bill and Jack locked in mortal combat with Moroccan dagger & broomstick club on the couch. 206 East 7th Street, Fall 1953, Jack came in weekends from Richmond Hill, Bill was staying in the little apartment with me editing Yage Letters. They had to hold still a full second while I steadied camera on back of chair. Iris Brodey’s canvas of Jackson Mac Low playing recorder on wall to right. September-October 1953.   

(photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

[moma-prints]

Drawing-Asymmetry #21, Jackson Mac Low, 1961, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift Size: sheet: 8 9/16 x 11 7/8" (21.7 x 30.2 cm) Medium: Ink on paper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/127456

[ginzyblog]

“But Jack I've told you over and over, if you continue your present pattern of living with your memere you'll be wound closer and closer in her apron strings till you're an old man...” William Burroughs as a Gideian sophisticate camping yakking at the all American Thomas Wolfean boy, Jack Kerouac thoughtfully listening to “the most intelligent man in America” for a funny second in the living room, 206 East 7th Street Fall 1953 Lower East Side New York, Iris Brodey's lost portrait of Jackson Mac Low with recorder on wall. (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) #williamsburroughs #jackkerouac #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #ontheroad #jacksonmaclow #writers #beatwriters #nakedlunch #queer #gay #poetry #poetrycommunity (at East Village, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAP_L9eB3Uj/?igshid=1fzy57822icrg

[the-drawing-center]

Last Call >> Next Wednesday, March 15 from 6:30-8pm we invite you to attend the closing reception for our current exhibitions. Enjoy the galleries after hours with a scavenger hunt, wine tasting, and more. Purchase tickets ($5) via eventbrite. Explore "#MateoLópez: Undo List”, “#JacksonMacLow: Lines–Letters–Words”, and “#AmySillman: After Metamorphoses” and continue to celebrate our installations "#GarySimmons: Ghost Reels" in the stairwell and "#JackieFerrara: Lines" in the Lab Corridor. Photos from Mateo López, Jackson Mac Low, and Amy Sillman’s exhibition. (at The Drawing Center)

[the-drawing-center]

FREE TALK on #JacksonMacLow >> this Thursday, February 23 at 6:30pm join artist Tyler Coburn and art historian Katie Anania, postdoctoral fellow at the Morgan Library and Museum, for a conversation about the theory and practice of chance- and machine-generated texts. Through a combination of reading aloud and intimate discussion, Coburn and Anania will explore what it means to be a reader in the digital age. Image: Photograph of Jackson Mac Low with his work installed in the exhibition Sound, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., (now MoMA PS1), New York, September 30–November 18, 1979. Courtesy of Anne Tardos. (at The Drawing Center)

[the-drawing-center]

This week we are installing Jackson Mac Low’s “Lines-Letters-Words” in our Drawing Room gallery. Join us for the Opening Reception next Thursday, January 19, 6-8pm. Like the Asymmetry poems that Jackson Mac Low wrote between 1960 and 1961, Mac Low created the visual Drawing-Asymmetries by using an ‘acrostic-chance’ method. To create both bodies of work, Mac Low began with a single ‘generator’ word, which he derived impulsively from books, poems, articles, and other texts in his environment. He then wrote a series of words that contained or began with a letter from the ‘generator.’ Both the Asymmetry poems and the Drawing-Asymmetries were meant to function conjointly as performance scores. #JacksonMacLow #openingsoon (at The Drawing Center)

[wilmurrayworld]

....and a detail shot. Pieces o' six 4, 2016 #albertaarts #jacksonmaclow #vitrinegallery #Berlin #canadianart #wilmurray

[wilmurrayworld]

Pieces O' Six 4, 2016 Acrylic paint, silver gelatin prints, photo oils, Masonite, wood. #wilmurray #canadianart #Berlin #vitrinegallery #jacksonmaclow #albertaarts (at Josef-Orlopp-Str)

[the-drawing-center]

Musical Manuscripts

Throwback Thursday!

In November 1979, we exhibited Musical Manuscripts which included more than 130 works showing various ways contemporary composers have translated their music into visual equivalents. Ranging from historical examples of the octave system through contemporary collage methods, the exhibition examines the myriad ways sounds have been transcribed and described by composers.

The score sheets presented not only a view of the working methods and modes of transcription of composers, but also traced the revolutions in notation from the classical five-line staff used since the early 13th century.Contemporary composers have adopted many of the traditional materials of drawing including collage, paint, and pastels in the interpretation of their music. The works in the exhibition were assembled from several sources including the Yale University Music Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the Northwestern University Music Library. 

Images: Russian Orthodox Chant Gallery View. The Drawing Center. 1979. Jackson MacLow, Musicwords (for Phill Niblock), 1977-78, drawing, 14 x 22 in.