GREATER NEW YORK
New Art in New York Now

Open February 27, 2000
Reception February 27, 12-6pm
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Long Island City, NY (February 7, 2000)—P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art present their first curatorial collaboration with Greater New York, an unprecedented, joint exhibition enterprise. Working cooperatively since October 1999, curators from P.S.1 and MoMA have produced an exhibition that will showcase more than 140 artists who have emerged as vital, creative voices in their field over the past five years. Greater New York will open Sunday, February 27 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 22–25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, New York.

The Greater New York exhibition embodies the diversity of ideas and creative practices found in the metropolitan area. From the five boroughs and lower Westchester County to New Jersey, the combined staff of MoMA and P.S.1 have scoured the New York metropolitan area in search of young artists who are breaking new ground. The work will span mediums––from painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, and prints, to site-specific installations and video projections. Greater New York presents a range and balance between artists who have become prominent since 1995 and those artists who have yet to gain wide-spread public recognition. The Greater New York exhibition will occupy nearly all of P.S.1's spaces and galleries.

"Greater New York, the first significant curatorial collaboration between P.S.1 and MoMA, embodies our shared interest in contemporary art and artists and reflects the diversity and dynamism of the metropolitan area's artistic community," remarked Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art.

"This exhibition is not necessarily a comprehensive survey of the New York art scene, but an investigation or a report on ideas recently generated by artists," said Alanna Heiss, Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. "Greater New York is a creative laboratory of massive proportions that combines the curatorial talents of two distinct institutions. The artists reveal what it is to be a New Yorker at the beginning of a new era. They anticipate the future while at the same time grant us an opportunity to examine their collective and individual potential."

To organize this exhibition, some 30 curatorial staff members from P.S.1 and MoMA reviewed the work of more than 2000 artists, conducted extensive slide reviews, and visited more than 250 studios in the New York area. Mr. Lowry and Ms. Heiss, with Tom Finkelpearl (Programming Director of P.S.1), led a group of curators who oversaw the organization of the exhibition. They are, from P.S.1: Brian O'Doherty (P.S.1 Associate Director), Klaus Biesenbach (Senior Curator), Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Senior Curator), and Russell Haswell (Adjunct Curator); and from MoMA: Paulo Herkenhoff (Adjunct Curator, Painting and Sculpture), Laura Hoptman (Assistant Curator, Drawings), and Deborah Wye (Chief Curator, Prints and Illustrated Books), among others. Studio visits were undertaken by all members of this core team as well as other staff members of P.S.1 and curators from all departments at MoMA.

In addition, P.S.1 and MoMA have initiated the Greater New York writing project: a collection of essays by writers from New York who have been invited to contribute critical essays for the exhibition. These essays will be featured, interactively, online at www.ps1.org along with images of works in the exhibition. The project will serve as the official documentation of the Greater New York exhibition and will be available on CD-ROM with an accompanying booklet. Several public dialogues between artists and writers will take place each Sunday afternoon in April (times/location TBA).

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center maintains a full program of retrospectives, one-person exhibitions, thematic exhibitions and international group shows that have extended its reach from Japan to Russia. On this occasion, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center pursues its on-going quest for uncharted territory in its immediate surroundings: the artists of the city of New York. The international nature of the city becomes apparent as native New Yorkers share galleries with artists from around the world who have elected New York as their home.

Greater New York is made possible by Peter Norton, Norton Family Foundation.

Generous support provided by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. Additional funding provided by the Board of Directors of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Robert J. Denison, the Douglas S. Cramer Foundation, The Contemporary Arts Council and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, and by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Greater New York Artists List:

Terence Accola
Manuel Acevedo
Ricci Albenda
Ghada Amer
Alfredo Arcia
Adriana Arenas
Michael Ashkin
Nicole Awai
Adam Baer
Tracey Baran
Aidas Bareikis
Yael Bartana
Jane Benson
BIG ROOM
Jimbo Blachly
Jeremy Blake
Chakaia Booker
Jennifer Bornstein
Bob Braine
Michael Bramwell
Jesse Bransford
Steven Brower
Cecily Brown
Matthew Buckingham
Luca Buvoli
Elizabeth Campbell
Francis Cape
Kelly Chang
Yungshu Chao
Jennifer Cho
Seoungho Cho
Steve Choo
Peter Coe
Diana Cooper
Jessica Craig-Martin
Jordan Crandall
E.V. Day
Lucky DeBellevue
Robert de Mar
Elena del Rivero
Kelly Driscoll
David Dupuis
Aleksandar Duravcevic
Keith Edmier
Benjamin Edwards
Inka Essenhigh
Roe Ethridge
Rachel Feinstein
Teresita Fernandez
William Fick
Jonah Freeman
Ellen Gallagher
Tim Gardner
Jeff Gauntt
Hope Ginsburg
Maria Elena Gonzalez
Sam Gordon
Terence Gower
Tolland Grinnell
Chris Hammerlein
Chris Hanson &
Hendrike Sonnenberg
Sharon Harper
Rachel Harrison
Jill Henderson
Arturo Herrera
Dana Hoey
Jonathan Horowitz
Timothy Hutchings
Emily Jacir
Julia Jacquette
Gareth James
Natalie Jeremijenko
Ernest Jolicoeur
Brad Kahlhamer
Sermin Kardestuncer
Seth Kelly
Nina Khatchadourian
Joachim Koester
Jeff Konigsberg
Udomsak Krisanamis
Alex Ku
Justine Kurland
Julian Laverdiere
Nikki Lee
Daniel Lefcourt
Paul Etienne Lincoln
Pia Lindman
Mark Lombardi
Charles Long
Michelle Lopez
Kristin Lucas
Giles Lyon
Johnna Macarthur
Caitlin Masley
Tony Matelli
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Julie Mehretu
John Menick
Deborah Mesa-Pelly
Arnoldo Morales
Shirin Neshat
Nils Norman
Olu Oguibe
Mick O'Shea
Roxy Paine
Erik Parker
Bruce Pearson
Sheila Pepe
David Perry
Elizabeth Peyton
Paul Pfeiffer
Michael Phelan
Richard Phillips
John Pilson
Rob Pruitt
Nadine Robinson
Ruth Root
Alex Ross
Lisa Ruyter
Calvin Seibert
Lawrence Seward
Jocelyn Shipley
Alyson Shotz
James Siena
Shazia Sikander
Amy Sillman
Gwen Smith
Valeska Soares
Mi Young Sohn
Dylan Stone
Do-Ho Suh
Jude Tallichet
Javier Tellez
Scott Teplin
Nicola Tyson
Piotr Uklanski
Cynthia Underwood
Mark Dean Veca
Anton Vidokle
Steven Vitiello
Douglas Wada
Olav Westphalen
TJ Wilcox
Clara Williams
Karen Yasinsky
Lisa Yuskavage