The Silo

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce The Silo, a group exhibition curated by poet and critic Raphael Rubinstein at 529 West 20th Street. Opening on Thursday, December 10, 2015, the exhibition is inspired by the online project launched by Rubinstein in 2010. Conceived of as a personal, revisionist “dictionary” of contemporary art, The Silo challenges existing exclusionary accounts of art since 1960. As well as bringing attention to overlooked artists, The Silo also serves as a platform for new interpretations of canonical artists.

The exhibition focuses on 29 artists who have been featured on The Silo. They range from important European artists who emerged during the 1960s (Valerio Adami, Mary Bauermeister, Daniel Spoerri) but are rarely exhibited in New York, to noted American painters and sculptors who emerged in the wake of Abstract Expressionism (Janice Biala, Norman Bluhm, Melvin Edwards, Shirley Jaffe, Richard Van Buren).

The Silo was the recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2011 and was given a Best Blog Award by the US Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics in 2014.