Afterimage

The term "process art" describes a moment of radical,
aformalexperimentation in postwar American sculpture. Through the medium ofdrawing,
Afterimage revisits process art in terms of the artists whodefined the movement and
suggests a transitional moment when many ofits practitioners anticipated the
feminist and postminimalist art ofthe 1970s. Nancy Grossman's use of language, for
example, suggests akind of material abstraction, and Nancy Holt's earth works and
relateddrawings introduced content into a minimalist vocabulary. The bookalso
explores the drawing as a residual object in works in which theprocess of making
dictates the form of the drawing. Examples includeGordon Matta-Clark's stacked
cuttings, Robert Morris' "blind time"drawings, and Sol Lewitt's folded construction
drawings. Other works,such as those by Bruce Nauman and Robert Smithson, record a
particularapproach to body-based and process-oriented sculpture. The book, which
accompanies an exhibition, contains an essayby Cornelia H. Butler on the historical
ambiguity surrounding processart and one by Pamela M. Lee on temporality in work of
the late1960s. The artists included in the book are William Anastasi,
RichardArtschwager, Mel Bochner, Agnes Denes, Nancy Grossman, RobertGrosvenor,
Marcia Hafif, Eva Hesse, Nancy Holt, Barry LeVa, SolLewitt, Lee Lozano, Sylvia
Plimack Mangold, Gordon Matta-Clark, RobertMorris, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer,
Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Saret,Joel Shapiro, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart,
Richard Tuttle, andJack Whitten.Copublished with The Museum of Contemporary Art. Los
Angeles.EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesLos Angeles,
CaliforniaApril 11-August 22, 1999Contemporary Arts MuseumHouston, TexasMay-July
2000Henry Art GallerySeattle, WashingtonJuly-September 2000