MARK FRANCIS

Dan Graham An insightful look into the work of the maverick Conceptual artist.Survey by Birgit Pelzer, Interview by Mark Francis, Focus by Beatriz Colomina, Artist's Choice text by Philip K Dick, Writings by Dan Graham Dan Graham (b.1942) is among the most influential of the Conceptual artists who emerged in America during the mid-1960s A pioneer in performance and video art in the 1970s, Graham later turned his attention to architectural projects designed for social interaction in public spaces, among them The Children's Pavilion (1989), conceived with Jeff Wall Since the 1990s Graham has received major public commissions throughout North America and Europe His writings range from early Conceptual Art pieces inserted in mass-market magazines to texts about his fellow artists Birgit Pelzer is a widely respected curator and critic who has been active since the late 1960s. Her publications include Gerhard Richter, 100 Paintings (1998) and Michael Asher (1991). Her important writings on Conceptual art have been anthologized in Rewriting Conceptual Art (1999). Mark Francis is a curator and critic based in London. He was previously Founding Director and Chief Curator of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and has curated exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. He has organized exhibitions and written on Graham's work since 1978. Beatriz Columina, one of the world's best known and most innovative architectural theorists, is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. She is the author of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (1994), and editor of Sexuality and Space (1992) and Architecture Production (1988).