White Columns

White Columns is New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit space and one of its most prestigious. [Krenz, Marcel. "Random Order." Flash Art. July-Sept. 2003: 67.] White Columns is known as a show case for up and coming artists.It is primarily devoted to emerging artists who are not affiliated with galleries. All work submitted is looked at by the director. Some of the artists receive studio visits and some of those artists are exhibited. White Columns maintained a Slide Registry of emerging artists which is now an online Curated Artist Registry.

White Columns was founded in 1970, in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, by Jefferey Lew and Gordon Matta-Clark. It was known as 112 Workshop/112 Greene Street. In 1979 it relocated to Spring Street, in SoHo, and was renamed White Columns. Directors of White Columns have included Josh Baer, Tom Solomon, Bill Arning, Paul Ha, Lauren Ross, and current director Matthew Higgs. [ [http://www.whitecolumns.org/view.html?type=exhibitions&id=307 White Columns - Exhibitions ] ] [Stephanie Cash "People - Brief Article". Art in America. April 2000. FindArticles.com. 19 Jul. 2008. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_4_88/ai_61755671] [Stephanie Cash "Paul Ha, director since 1996 of the alternative space White Columns in New York - appointed, Yale University Art Gallery - Brief Article". Art in America. Sept 2001. FindArticles.com. 19 Jul. 2008. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_9_89/ai_78334751] ["White Columns". Art in America. Nov 2004. FindArticles.com. 19 Jul. 2008. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_92/ai_n7069957] In 1991 it moved to Christopher Street in Greenwich Village and then in 1998 to its present location on the border of Greenwich Village and the Meat Packing District in Manhattan. [ [http://www.whitecolumns.org/text.html?type=history http://www.whitecolumns.org/text.html?type=history] ]

Notes

References

* Krenz, Marcel. “Random Order.” Flash Art. July-Sept. 2003: 67-69.
* [http://www.whitecolumns.org/text.html?type=history White Columns History]
* Brenson, Michael. "'Structures,' Exhibition at White Columns." The New York Times. 13 Dec. 1985

External links

* [http://www.whitecolumns.org/ White Columns]