For those of you just arriving, Holly Solomon made notice of herself in the 70’s as a collector – then in the 80’s her gallery in Soho as well as an uptown gallery, Solomon exhibited artwork from Conceptualism to Pattern & Decoration, and photography. She was crucial in helping Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sigmar Polke, Judy Pfaff, William Wegman, among others.
She recently passed away and her estate was auctioned last week in Los Angeles.
However the questions Michael Duncan asked in this diary to me are fascinating…
- Are Susan Hall’s drawings from 1969 any less interesting than Amy Cutler’s or Robyn O’Neil’s from 2005?
- Why is Donna Dennis’s use of architecture-as-sculpture in the 1970s never referenced in the context of similar efforts today by Jorge Pardo or Rirkrit Tiravanija?
- Are the cartoonish paintings of Rodney Alan Greenblat and Milan Kunc any less charmingly dopey than those of Takeshi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara?
- What does Africano lack that Hernan Bas and Elizabeth Peyton have?
I apologize in advance for his “What’s it all About Alfie” cuteness – however the article is well worth reading.
The article is at Artforum.com – Story is here