{"title":"Books \u0026 Magazines: Facsimile Editions","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"primetime-contemporary-art-art-by-the-gala-committee-as-seen-on-melrose-place","title":"Primetime Contemporary Art: Art by the GALA Committee as Seen on Melrose Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrimetime Contemporary Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a publication documenting a radical, two-year intervention by the GALA Committee on the primetime television show \u003cem\u003eMelrose Place\u003c\/em\u003e. Originally published in a limited run in 1998, this extremely rare artist book is reproduced here for the first time as a facsimile edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMel Chin initiated the loose collective of artists known as the GALA Committee in 1995 in response to an invitation to participate in an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The artist arranged with the producers of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMelrose Place\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for the collective to create objects for the soap opera, resulting in an extensive series of political works used as plot devices and props across two seasons of the show. The GALA Committee’s intervention provided surreptitious commentary on reproductive rights, HIV\/AIDS, the Gulf War, domestic terrorism, corporate malfeasance, and substance abuse, among other issues. Despite some of these topics having been banned by the FCC at the time, the group’s political critiques went unnoticed by censors, subverting corporate and government controls of primetime television with a progressive agenda.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese works were exhibited in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUncommon Sense \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eat the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1997 and then sold at an auction at Sotheby’s to support several charities. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrimetime Contemporary Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, created by Chin and Helen Nagge, was used as the auction catalog for the evening, documented the artwork produced for the exhibition, and articulated the conceptual framework of the GALA Committee.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMel Chin was born in Houston, Texas, and is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork, and works that enlist science as an aesthetic component to developing complex ideas. He pioneered “green remediation” in his 1990 project, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevival Field\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; presented his proposal for a New World Trade Center as part of the American representation at the 2002 Venice Biennale of Architecture; won a Pedro Sienna Award for Animation in Chile for his 2017 film, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e9-11\/9-11\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and founded S.O.U.R.C.E. Studio in 2017 to realize sustained engagements with community and environment. In 2018, he presented \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnmoored\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in Times Square, New York City, creating a visual portal into a future of rising waters, and had a forty-year-survey exhibition at the Queens Museum. He is the recipient of many awards, grants, and honorary degrees, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2019, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen Nagge\u003cspan\u003e has collaborated with Mel Chin on major public art projects for over two decades. She has worked with commercial galleries and non-profit art spaces in Houston, Texas, and New York City, and developed in-house archival systems for clients and seminal American artists’ estates. She also worked in publishing for several years, notably for Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, Harvey Klinger Literary Agency, and others, and continues to edit texts for Mel Chin Studio.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe GALA Committee (1995-1997) was a collective of artists, faculty, and students from the University of Georgia, Athens; CalArts, Los Angeles; and Grand Arts, Kansas City formed by Mel Chin in response to the 1995 invitation to participate in the group show\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUncommon Sense\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eat the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The GALA Committee included: David Adams, Elizabeth Adams, Eric Andersen, Emily Arthur, Katie Bauman, Cameron Bernie, David Blanchard, John Borthwick, Barron Brown, Alan Bush, Heather Champ, Heeyeon Chang, Mel Chin, Lance Clarke, Roymont Clements, Kathleen Hillseth Clinesmith, Karina Combs, Melissa Conroy, John Crowe, John Cupit, Lesley Dill, Heather M. Eastman, Diane Edison, Brian Ellison, Evan Firestone, Mark Flood, Joe Girandola, Terry Glispin, Nuala Glynn, Jason Grier, Garrison Gunter, Elizabeth Huber, Chip Hayes, Frank Irving, Kim Jensen, Bryan Jernigan, Karin Johansson, M. Dana Jones, Cheryl Kaplan, Kendal Kerr, Kat Kinsman, Koichi Kimura, Jeff Knowlton, Leo Knox, Bernie Koersen, H. 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Each left-hand page offers a black and white study of four types of lines (vertical, horizontal, right-facing diagonal, left-facing diagonal) executed in all possible combinations, while right-hand pages present a combinatory system of lines in four colors (yellow, black, red, blue). The book opens with a two-page key overviewing all permutations that follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is no secret that as a founder of American Conceptualism and one of its early theoreticians, LeWitt valued the idea and logical formulations of an artwork over the art-object. However, while one might suspect that such an adherence would prevent the creation of an aesthetically pleasing work, LeWitt’s efforts here and beyond prove otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSol LeWitt was an American artist who worked across a variety of media, including drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. His early formulations around conceptualism helped to define a generation of artists who prioritized ideas and concepts rather than subjective decision-making in the creation of an artwork. These ideas are most clearly noted in his “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art” (1967) and “Sentences on Conceptual Art” (1969) and he is perhaps best-known for pioneering the wall drawing, a work derived from a series of formal operations applied directly to the wall. 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