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Blue Print is the first installation in a series of “Gallery Structures” constructed by the gallery and its workers. The exhibit(ion), Gallery Structure (0), is open for one week: May 6 - May 12, 2023.

The series of Gallery Structures is a critical and formal curatorial engagement with the structure of the gallery. The series situates a literal (material) encounter with the space of the gallery as a work (of art) in itself. Habitually, the gallery is often regarded as a non-conscious or passive space where art is propped-up or placed; however, the materials, motifs, and histories of the gallery-space are always already structuring the possibilities of encountering an artwork (and pre-configuring the perspectives of observation). This series shows the ways in which the gallery circularly writes itself (writing). This is an effort to build a gallery and curated program that is capable of viewing itself… of giving an account of itself.

As the initial inquiry into the questions of the agency of the gallery-space, Blue Print is the gallery’s way of putting the (invisible or otherwise understated) act of the gallery (back) into the spaces, times, and systems at work in the physical housing and location of Reisig and Taylor Contemporary at 2680 South La Cienega Boulevard. Directly, “Blue Print” asks: What is the structure of the gallery? What is the structure of the curatorial act? And, how can these structures be deconstructed, exhibited, endured, shown, or demonstrated without repressing its underlying processes and components? 

Responding to these basic questions of space, time, and exhibition, the structure forms a primordial [intrinsic, Möbius] “blueprint” of the gallery by working-through latent elements and perennial forms permeating the gallery’s structure, dreaming what the gallery conceals in the silence of its sleep. This is a work with the presences and absences of the gallery-space. And the hyper-accelerations and lags of its language at the limit of the un/conscious, over time.

Marking time in realtime, each work will change form (at different speeds) throughout the course of the exhibit.

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