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Exhibition: 16 Rose Street
A building in San Francisco leased by Reese Palley Gallery and given over as studio space to artists such as Sam Richardson, Terry Fox, James Pennuto, Howard Fried, Barney Bailey, and Alex Lambie (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 54)
Reese Palley’s…
The Creation, a Seven Day Performance
I lived in the gallery for a week making art actions each day that related to the creation of the world as described in the Bible.(Marioni 1997: 17)
Opening My Hand as Slowly as Possible
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Asbestos Tracking
It took up the whole length of the room. I put my shoes in a pan of asbestos at one end and made there parallel tracks along the floor. The first was running. No, not running. Shuffling and skipping. Dragging, shuffling, and skipping. Shuffling was…
Allan Fish Drinks a Case of Beer
In 1969 I had to have a way of exhibiting because I felt like exhibiting. It was too politically complicated to try to exhibit my work and be a curator at the same time for a combination of reasons which are probably obvious. So I had to exhibit…
Corner Push
The Wall Push piece. It was like having a dialogue with the wall, exchanging energy with it. I pushed as hard as I could for about eight or nine minutes, until I was too tired to push any more. I used to park my car every day in that alley and I…
ALLMYDIRTYBLUECLOTHES
Fried arranged the clothes on the floor and marked the symbols on the wall in a carefully reasoned sequence […] In summing up his description of the work “Allmydirtyblueclothes” Howard Fried also stated:…