Multimedia Collection

Simplicity
(Art City series)

DVD
58 minutes
NX165 .A766 2002 v.3 DVD

Travelling around the country, ART CITY: Simplicity takes viewers on a revealing trip into the studios and lives of a group of singular artists. On a desert mesa outside Santa Fe, Richard Tuttle invents his mysterious and marvelously humble forms, made of wire, string, and wood. In Taos, Agnes Martin rhythmically repeats extremely simplified images. In his studio by the Santa Monica surf, John Baldessari, a founding father of Conceptualism, aims for successful juxtapositions combining photographs with text. On Sunset Boulevard, Amy Adler reclaims personal history through self-portraits, photographing her original drawings, then destroying the traces. The imaginative tableaux of Robert Williams revel in surreal cartoon imagery, emerging from his living room in the San Fernando Valley. At a cabin in Woodstock, Joan Snyder refines her sensuous art amid a lush pine forest. Mike Bidlo salutes Duchamp at a Manhattan gallery, while in a Brooklyn brownstone, Carolyn Martin uses charcoal slabs to realize her visceral abstractions.

Through this group of memorable iconclasts, the creative 'act' is there to see and study. Along with

L.A. Times

art critic Christopher Knight, writer Dave Hickey, curator Marcia Tucker, dealer Angela Westwater, publisher Mat Gleason, collectors Herb & Dorothy Vogel, and others, ART CITY: Simplicity touches on artists' relations with the press, ambiguous feelings about showing one's work, distilling concepts into an essence, and what it means to succeed in the artworld.

Distributed by Twelve Films (artcity@lainet.com)

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