Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963–1978

May 28–Oct 9, 2004

A collage of black and white photographs depicting various stages of a process involving tires and white fluffy material. The first row shows a person moving a tire, a view through a doorway, hands working with the material, and a close-up of a washing machine. The second row includes images of the material being stretched, placed inside tires, and a person holding up a large piece of the material. The final row shows piles of tires filled with the material, the material hanging from the ceiling, and a dark room with two brightly lit windows.
A collage of black and white photographs depicting various stages of a process involving tires and white fluffy material. The first row shows a person moving a tire, a view through a doorway, hands working with the material, and a close-up of a washing machine. The second row includes images of the material being stretched, placed inside tires, and a person holding up a large piece of the material. The final row shows piles of tires filled with the material, the material hanging from the ceiling, and a dark room with two brightly lit windows.

Paul McCarthy, Dream Room, Interior Room, 1970. Eighteen gelatin silver prints, overall (Sight): 23 3/4 × 59 3/4 in. (60.3 × 151.8 cm) Frame: 28 5/8 × 64 9/16 × 2 1/2 in. (72.7 × 164 × 6.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and Norah Sharpe Stone 2001.138.2. © Paul McCarthy; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963–1978 was curated by Sylvia Wolf.

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