AMERICAS SOCIETY PRESENTS SYLVIA PALACIOS WHITMAN’S FIRST SOLO EXHITION IN THE UNITED STATES
The exhibition showcases over 50 years of work of Chilean artist Silvia Palacios Whitman. Americas Society gathered from historic performances to recent drawings.
Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body, is the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Chilean artist in the United States. The exhibition, curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Rachel Remick, will restage Palacios Whitman’s key historical works, featuring sketeches, video, photographic documentation of performances and new large-scale works on paper.
The exhibition focuses on the fundamental connection between drawing and performance in Palacios Whitman’s practice. “Sylvia Palacios Whitman is truly an interdisciplinary artist who moves between drawing and performance in a way that is very unique. Her works are playful and engaging, and she pays close attention to personal history in her pieces”, said co-Curator Rachel Remick. “From the well.known performances of the 1970s to the paper drawings and sculptures she makes today, Palacios Whitman’s work is rooted in a keen sense of experimentation”.
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Slingshot from performance event Performance Evening at the Idea Warehouse, May 2–3, 1975
File Name: ASSPW113
Photo: Nathaniel Tileston
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Performance of Green Hands from performance event Passing Through at Sonnabend Gallery, May 20–21, 1977 File Name: ASSPW201. Photo: Babette Mangolte
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Sketches for performance Magnets, 1975 (not realized, left) and Slingshot, 1975 (right) File Name: ASSPW205
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Performance event Clear View (one place at a time) at The Kitchen, November 19–21, 1976 File Name: ASSPW112
Photo: Babette Mangolte
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Performance event Around the Edge at Truck and Warehouse Theater, 1978 File Name: ASSPW206. Photo: Babette Mangolte
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Performance of Jump Up a Pyramid, from performance event Going at Trisha Brown Studio, October 10–11, 1974
File Name: ASSPW203. Photo: Babette Mangolte.
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Exhibition views. Courtesy Americas Society.
Sylvia Palacios Whitman (b. 1941, Osorno, Chile) is a visual and performance artist who studied painting and sculpture at the Escuela de Bellas Artes at the University of Chile in Santiago, Chile. After moving to New York City in 1961, Palacios Whitman began experimenting with movement and contemporary dance and became involved with the downtown avant-garde. In the early 1970s, she performed with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. In 1974, Palacios Whitman began directing and choreographing her own performances, which she staged at new, experimental art venues around New York City including the Kitchen, Artists’ Space, and Sonnabend Gallery. In her performances, Palacios Whitman developed her own choreographic language, which privileged the participation of untrained performers, embraced humor and unexpected elements, and incorporated found objects and ephemeral props. From 1980s onward, she began to focus on producing drawings, collages, and sculptural artworks made from paper, expanding on visual themes from her performances. Palacios Whitman lives and works in New York.
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Exhibition views. Courtesy Americas Society.
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Exhibition views. Courtesy Americas Society.
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Sylvia Palacios Whitman. Tragedy, 2013–2014
Mixed media on paper
40 x 35 inches (101.6 x 88.9 cm) [ASSPW003]
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Sylvia Palacios Whitman Floor Drawing, 2020–2022 Mixed media on Kraft paper 76 x 36 inches (193 x 91.4 cm) [ASSPW014]
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Sylvia Palacios Whitman
Drawing for video performance Siren, 2017 Mixed media
10 1/2 x 14 inches (26.6 x 35.5 cm) [ASSPW075]
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Sylvia Palacios Whitman
Drawing for video performance Siren, 2017 Mixed media
10 1/2 x 14 inches (26.6 x 35.5 cm) [ASSPW078]
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Sylvia Palacios Whitman. Visit to See the Monkey and Other Childhood Stories, 1960 – 2019. Mixed media. 9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm) [ASSPW081]
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