“Best in Show” — 2014 AAM Museum Publications Design
Competition Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era’s most
innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey.
Appreciating what others tended to ignore or mock, they gravitated
to the state’s most desolate peripheries: its industrial
wastescapes, crumbling cities, crowded highways, and banal suburbs.
There they produced some of the most important work of their
careers. The breakthroughs in land, conceptual, performance, and
site-specific art that New Jersey helped catalyze are the subject
of New Jersey as Non-Site, whose title evokes the mixed-media
sculptures that Robert Smithson began to create in 1968 while
driving the state’s highways with Nancy Holt. This catalogue
examines more than 100 works by sixteen artists, including Amiri
Baraka, George Brecht, Dan Graham, Allan Kaprow, Gordon
Matta-Clark, and George Segal. Organized around three
themes—ruin, cooperation, and displacement—Kelly Baum’s essay
considers their work in relationship to seismic shifts in the world
of art and equally dramatic changes to New Jersey’s economy,
infrastructure, landscape, demography, and social stability.
Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum Exhibition
Schedule: Princeton University Art Museum (10/05/13–01/04/14)
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