The John Gibson Gallery History
1972-81 John Gibson Gallery Inc. 392 West Broadway, NY 10021,
1981-1984 John Gibson Gallery Inc. 205 East 78th Street, NY 10021,
1984-2001 John Gibson Gallery Inc. 568 Broadway at Prince, NY 10012.
1967 [John Gibson Gallery - Projects for Commissions, 27 East 67th Street, NY 10021]
November 11-December, 1967: The Hanging Floating and Cantilevered Show.
January 6 - 31, 1968: Christo "Projects of Packages, Storefronts, and Barrels for the National Gallery, Rome"
February 24 - March 29, 1968: Les Levine "Scale Models for the Star Machine"
March 30 - May 10, 1968: Forrest Myers, Scale models and plans of newly realized projects:
May 4 - May 23, 1968: Dennis Oppenheim "Furrows, Hedges, Trenches, Mounds, Water, Earth, Grass"
Christo II, Scale Models, Photomontages & Drawings: Saturday June 1-thru ?, 1968 (or is this 1969?)
Anti-Form: Saturday October 5 thru November 7, 1968
The Great Southwest Projects, November 23 1968
"The Clean Machine", Fischbach Gallery/John Gibson Gallery, 1968
1969
Vito Acconci, Following Piece(photo) and others, John Gibson Commissions, 1969
--Performance Test, 1969 (photo)
Group exhibition (Gordon Matta-Clark, Photo Fry): 1969
Dennis Oppenheim, "Below Zero Projects": January 11 - February 14, 1969
Richard Long, Saturday, February 22 - March 14, 1969
Peter Hutchinson: Saturday March 15 - April 11, 1969
Panamarenko, Closed Systems Power Devices for Space Portable Air Transport Gas Turbines Saturday: April 19 through May 9, 1969
Ecologic Art: May 17-June 28, 1969
Christo, The Australian Projects: Saturday November 1 - November 28, 1969
Will Insley, Channel Space: Saturday November 29 thru December 20, 1969
1970
Group exhibition (Gordon Matta-Clark): 1970 (Is this exhibition Performance & Activities?) Peter
Hutchinson, Paricutin Volcano: Feb 14-Mar 31, 1970 (announcement card and artists' book)
Dennis Oppenheim: April 11-May 30, 1970
Documentations 1970, June 13-August 29, Christo, Hutchinson, Insley, Kaprow, Oppenheim
Allan Kaprow, Days Off: A Calendar of Happenings, October 4-thru October 31, 1970*
Performances & Activities: Acconci, Christo, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Peter Hutchinson, Allan Kaprow, Gordon Matta, Dennis Oppenheim, Michael Snow, & Others, Fall, 1970
1971
Vito Acconci, Step Piece, Room Piece, Learning Piece, Service Area, Trademarks, Overtaking Piece, Rubbing Piece (photos), John
Vito Acconci: Saturday March 27 - April 24, 1971 (also Acconci bio on John Gibson Commissions letterhead)
John Gibson, New York, Paris: Galerie Templon, Acconci, Christo, Graham, Hutchinson, Insley, Kaprow, Oppenheim, June 2-19, 1971 (announcement card) - date may not be accurate.
Graham, 1971? (needs verification)
Vito Acconci, Some Notes on Activity and Performance
Roger Welch,1972
Robert Cumming, March 8-29, 1972 (?)
Dennis Oppenheim: Protection, 1971, Lithograph, Published by John Gibson and Multiples, NY, 1973 (Is this same listing as the portfolio?)
Gordon Matta-Clark: 1973
Janet Rifkin, Saturday January 6 - 31, 1973
Joseph Beuys, Collected Editions, Saturday February 10-March 3, 1973
Bill Beckley, "the origin of and", March 10-30, 1973
Story (group exhibition), April 3 - May 3, 1973
Peter Hutchinson, Breaking In from the Video Tape Shoots, Saturday May 5 - June 7, 1973
Bill Beckley, Performance, June 6, 1973
Robert Cumming, June 9 -30, 1973
Roger Welch, Photo-Graphic Works, Films, September 22-October 16, 1973
Arman, Selected Activities 1960-1973: October 20-November 21, 1973 (exhibition catalog)
David Askevold, Kepler & Kohoutek and Other Occurences: November 24 - December 22, 1973
??Welch: 1974 (Is the same as the film?)
Joseph Beuys, Collected Editions II: January 5- 24, 1974
Jean le Gac: January 26 - February 13, 1974
Roger Welch, "Welch: a film by Roger Welch, 1972", February 14, 1974
Dennis Oppenheim: February 16 - March 6, 1974
Niele Toroni, March 9-27, 1974
Narrative 2 (group exhibition): March 30-April 17, 1974 (Where is this card?)
Robert Filliou, Telepathic Music, May 1-24, 1974
Roger Cutforth, May 4-22, 1974
Bill Beckley, "Performance, John Gibson Gallery, 393 West Broadway, New York, June 6 (1974) 8:30 p.m."
Gordon Matta-Clark: Saturday Septemberember 21-October 16, 1974
Verbal-Visual, International Kunstmarkt, Cologne: October 19-24, 1974
Peter Hutchinson, Alphabet Series: Opening Saturday October 19, 1974 (exhibition catalog)
Bill Beckley: November 23-December 21, 1974
Dennis Oppenheim: January 4 - January 29, 1975 (press release in the Art in the Mind file) (poster produced)
Mac Adams, Mystery Environment and other works, February 7- March 3, 1975
Arman, Conscious Vandalism Event, April 5-19, 1975
Dan Graham, Video/Performance Works, April 26-May 17, 1975 (poster/announcement)
David Askevold: 1. Muse Extracts. 2. Synapses. 3. Green Willow for Delaware - a film at 3 & 5, May 24 - June 1, 1975
Robert Cumming, June 9 -30, 1975
James Collins: Septemberember 6-30, 1975
Ben Vautier, Ideas, Projects and Details of my Life: October 4 - November 12, 1975
Peter Hutchinson, The Anarchist's Story, John Gibson Gallery, November 15 - December 20, 1975
Peter Hutchinson, Natural Histories and Other Stories: 1975
Joseph Beuys: Collected Editions III, 1975
Group Exhibition (including Dennis Oppenheim): 1976?
Le Gac 1. Voyages 2. Drawing Master Series, January 3 - February 4, 1976
Mac Adams, Mystery Environments: February 11 - March 11, 1976
Roger Cutforth, March 6-31, 1976
Bill Beckley: April 3 - 26, 1976
15, Septemberember 18 - October 30, 1976
Broodthaers, Collected Editions: November 13 - December, 1976
David Askevold, The Ambit, nine clauses and their allotments, 1977), January 8 - February 2, 1977
John Fernie, February 5 - March 2, 1977
Jean Le Gac, "and the painter", March 5-30, 1977
Robert Cumming: April 2-May 4, 1977
Dennis Oppenheim: May 7 - May 25, 1977
Janet Rifkin, Intrusions on a Sliding Function: May 28-June 18, 1977
Peter Hutchinson, Selected Works 1968-1977: Septemberember 1- October 27, 1977 (exhibition catalog)
William Childress, November 5-December 17, 1977
Roger Cutforth: January 7-31, 1978
Structure (group exhibition), Saturday March 18 - April 19, 1978 (exhibition catalog)
John Hilliard, April 29-May 24, 1978
James Carpenter: Saturday Septemberember 16 - October 18, 1978
Bill Lundberg: Saturday October 21 - November 22, 1978
Leandro Katz: November 25 - December 23, 1978
Peter Hutchinson, Year: May 5 - June 16, 1979 (exhibition catalog) (two copies)
Jean le Gac, Selected Works, 1968-78, February 10 - March 7, 1979
Dennis Oppenheim, Recent Work: March 10 - March 31, 1979 (poster)
1981(?)
John Gibson Gallery Inc. 205 East 78th Street. NY 10021 (new address card)
Peter Hutchinson, Drawings, 1968-1980, May 12-June 26, 1981, (Is it 1964-1980?)
Five English Artists: Adams, Cutforth, Hilliard, Hutchinson, November 4-December 19, 1981
Joseph Beuys Selected Editions 1965-1980, 1981
Marcel Broodthaers, Collected Editions, 1981
Seventies (Adams, Arman, Beckley, Beuys, Broodthaers, Childress, Filliou, Le Gac, Matta-Clark, Toroni, Five French Artists, Jan 13 - March 6, 1982
Jean Le gac: Felt Multiples, Party and Private Viewing, November 2, 1982
"Ten American Artists", group exhibition: 1982
"Structure II", group exhibition: 1982
Marcel Broodthaers, Drawings & Graphics, 1982
Bill Beckley: New Paintings & Drawings, April 14-June 11, 1983 (limited edition collage on announcement card)
Peter Hutchinson, "The End of Letters", New Sculpture, Photographs & Drawings, 1983
Deborah Whitman, Activities: 1984 (exhibition catalog)
Deborah Whitman, January 5-28, 1984
Mark Rutkowski, Beehives: Works on Paper, February 5-March 3, 1984
John Armleder, Sculptures, Paintings & Drawings, March 8-31, 1984
Jeanette Cole, Paintings & Drawings, April 5-28, 1984
William Childress, Sculptures & Drawings, May 3-June 30, 1984
Helmut Federle: Paintings and Drawings, 1984 (poster)
Peter Hutchinson, Mountain Grammar, November 17 - December 22, 1984
Susan Smith, Paintings, January 5-31, 1985
Jeanette Cole, New Paintings, March 2-23, 1985
Peter Hutchinson, Atlas Mountain Grammar, November 9 - December 21, 1985
Bill Beckley, Selected Works 1970-1985, 1985
Steel Stillman, Mixed-Media Photographs, February 1 - 26, 1986
Merrill Wagner, New Paintings on Slate, March 1-29, 1986
Deconstruct: June 4 - July 31, 1986 [exhibition catalog] (see Reconstruct)
John Armleder, Furniture Sculpture, May 3-31, 1986 (two different announcement cards) Nancy Haynes, Paintings, Septemberember 6-31, 1986
Joseph Beuys, The Posters of His Exhibitions, October 18-November 19, 1986 (two versions of cards)
Bill Beckley: 1986
Marcel Broodthaers, 1986
Olivier Mosset, New Paintings, January 10 - February 11, 1987
Reconstruct: March 21 - April 25, 1987 (exhibition catalog) (See Deconstruct)
John Armleder, Furniture Sculpture, May 2-June 27, 1987
Peter Hutchinson Earthworks, Septemberember 11- October 3, 1987
The New Poverty: Curated by Collins & Milasso, October 10 - November 7, 1987 (catalog)
Olivier Mosset, Olivier Mosset & Andreas Pfanner, Works 1987-1988, March 5-26, 1988
European Sculpture Made in USA: March 31-April 23, 1988 (exhibition catalog)
Artists & Curators, October 15-November 12, 1988
Dennis Oppenheim: 1989
"Intuition" (group exhibition): June 10-July 28, 1989 (exhibition catalog)
Frank Schroder, New Work, Septemberember 9-October 7, 1989
Daniel Reiser, New Sculpture, November 18-December 23, 1989
Text and Photograph (group exhibition): 1989
Buena Vista, Colllins & Milazzo: 1989 (catalog, ed. 1000)
Peter Hutchinson, New Land Art Photographs & Sculptures, February 10 - March 10, 1990
Dennis Oppenheim, "Recent Sculpture & Drawings": April 28 - May 26, 1990
Trans-Europe Express (group exhibition): June 2 - July 27, 1990 (exhibition catalog)
Eberhard Bosslet, New Sculpture, October 13-November, 1990
American Express (group exhibition): 1990
Oliver Mosset, New Work, 1990
Frank Schroder, New Work, February 16-March 16, 1991 "Sixties" (group exhibition): October 19 - November 23, 1991
Bill Beckley: 1991
John Armleder, 1991
Mac Adams, New Sculpture, February 22 - March 28, 1992
Cameron Shaw, New Works, April 4-May 2, 1992
Eighties (Armleder, Bosslet, Federle, Haynes, Lavier, Mosset, Reiser, Robbe, Weidmann), May 9-June 27, 1992
Joseph Beuys
Olivier Mosset. Red Monochrome Multiple 1992, John Gibson Editions, Invitation
Joseph Beuys, Prints: 1965-85, February 20-April 3, 1993 Allan Kaprow, Beauty Parlor, April 13 - April 23, 1993 (poster) Conceptual Photographs: October 23 - December 23, 1993
Conceptual Photographs II: (photos), (checklist in collection), April 2 - May 7, 1994
1994
Alan Charlton, May 12 - June 18, 1994
"1107", June 17 (verify year)
Katz, Kunce, Merrick, Peterman, Reilly, Universe, June 25-July 30, 1994
Shelagh Keeley, Septemberember 10 - October 15, 1994
Steven Parrino, New Work, October 22- November 19, 1994
Thomas Merrick, November 26- December 31, 1994
Olivier Mosset, Recent Paintings, 1994
Jennifer Bolande, February 18 - March 25, 1995
Alan Kaprow, "this is a tidy situation", May 6-June 19, 1995
William Childress: Septemberember 6-30, 1995
Marcel Broodthaers: October 6 - November 11, 1995 (checklist in collection)
Conceptual Photographs III: Nov 18 - Dec 30, 1995
Holiday Greeting Card: 1995
Joseph Beuys Prints and Multiples, 1995
Bill Schwarz, Sculpture, January 6 - February 3, 1996
Janine Gordon, "I've got mad love to give", Photographs, February 10 - March 9, 1996
Bladen, Haynes, Mosset, March 16- April 13, 1996
Eve Andre Laramee, Sculptures and Drawings, April 27-May 25, 1996
21c. Sculpture: June 8-July 26, 1996
Conceptual Photographs IV: Septemberember7-Nov 2, 1996
Artists Photographs: Nov 9, 1996 - January 3, 1997 Holiday Greeting Card: 1996
German Photographs: Jan 11 - Feb 22, 1997
Bill Beckley, The Nineties: March 8-April 5, 1997
(Mother Nature) Keeley, Laramee, Kunce: April 19 - May 24, 1997
Lisa Bowman: Sep 11-Oct 25, 1997
The Pleasure of Reading, An Exhibition and Sale of Art Books and Catalogues: Nov 7 - Dec 31, 1997
Art Monographs: "Sixties and Seventies" and Supplement (checklists) and "Eighties and Nineties".
Holiday Greeting Card: 1997
Donald Lipski, Book Works 1982-1997: Jan 10 - Feb 14, 1998
Raw Ideas: April 4 - May 16, 1998
Thom Merrick: May 23-June 27, 1998
Ben Vautier, Statements with Clocks, October 10 - November 14, 1998
Arman, Fragmentation-Concerto for 4 Pianos, November 17, 1998 - January 9, 1999 (postcard/poster)
Project Plans (Group exhibition): 1998
Editions: Lipski, Arman, Vautier, Kunce, 1998 (announcements)
Art Monographs: April 10, 1999 (opening)
Peggy Bates: Water Rocks, January 14-February 20, 1999
BKH Gutmann, Photographs: April 10-May 15, 1999
Sara Garden Armstrong, Marking Time: May 20-June 30, 1999 (catalogue, ed. 1000)
Matej Andraz Vogrincic, Clothes Sculpture: Thursday, Septemberember 23 - October 30, 1999
Floria Sigismondi: November 4 - December 23, 1999
Samm Kunce, Dune, February 27-April 3, 1999
Donald Lipski: Selected Works from Passing Time and Building Steam, January 13 - February 26, 2000
Monika Kulicka: Septemberember14-Oct 30, 2000
Eberhard Bosslet, Interventions: Nov 4-Dec 23, 2000
Bill Beckley: Dierdre's Lips & Other Works, 2000
Jan Henle, Selected Works 1973-2000: December 2, 2000- January 6, 2001 (exhibition checklist) Season's Greetings Card 2000
Monika Kulicka (book)/Season's Greeting Card, December 2000
40th Anniversary: February 1 - April 7, 2001 (newspaper article, exhibition checklist)
Publications:
Dan Graham, Some Photographic Projects, 1970 (artists' book)
Dan Graham, Performance 1, 1970 (artists' book prepared in connection with December 14, 1970 performance (see below)
Dan Graham, 1966: 1970 (artists' book)
Editions:
Steve Reich, Drumming for Eight Small Tuned Drums, Three Marimbas, Three Glockenspiels, Male and Female Voices, Whistling and Piccolo (Limited Edition LP and printed score), John Gibson and Multiples, NYC, 1972, ed. 500, Artist proof 80/100
Robert Cumming, "A Girl's Story", early artists' edition of the John Gibson Gallery, black and white photo print, 1972, ed. 50
Dennis Oppenheim, Projects, 1973 (announcement card for the portfolio of 10 lithographs in collection, not the portfolio)
Dennis Oppenheim: Protection, 1971, Lithograph, Published by John Gibson and Multiples, NY, 1973 (Is this same listing as the portfolio?)
Robert Cumming: "A Girl's Story" (Edition), 1972, Black and white photo print, Edition of 50
ARMAN (Amand Fernandez 1928-2005) Accumulation Munich, Schellmann et New York John Gibson Gallery, 1973, 470x320x84mm, tampons, papier, bois, plexiglas. Tirage de 100 exemplaires numérotés. Jean Le Gac: The Painter (1974), Limited edition work. Color photographs mounted on board with text.
Narrative Art (Askevold, Beckley, Cumming, Hutchinson, Le Gac and Welch with a preface by James Collins), portfolio, ed. 75, Published by John Gibson and Atelier Laage, 1975 (announcement in collection, not portfolio).
Bill Lundberg: Cardplayers (1975). A film sculpture. Projection on a tabletop. Super-8 sound projector and color film, projector stand, mirror, wire, four chains, and speaker in table. Edition of 3. --Silent Dinner (1975). A film sculpture. Projection on a tabletop. Super-8 sound projector and color film, projector stand, mirror, wire, four chains, and speaker in table. Edition of 3.
John Armleder, Painting with Coat Hanger, John Gibson Editions, ed. 60, 1985 (verify date)
Olivier Mosset, Painting Multiple, Oil on Paper, ed. 50, 1987
John Armleder, Guitar Multiple, ed. 12, 1987 (also announcement card for multiple)
John Armleder, "346", Three-Piece Suit from Brooks Brothers, ed. 12, 1988
Olivier Mosset, Red Monochrome Multiple, 1992
Ben Vautier, "Take Your Time", 1998, John Gibson Multiples, ed. 30 1998
Arman, "Fragmentation: Concerto for 4 Pianos, Silkscreen on Saunders Waterford, Edition of 30, 1998
Performance and Activities, New York University, The Art Students' Association, produced by John Gibson:
Performances & Activities (1st in the series), Dan Graham, Performance, Film, Television, & Tape, Monday, December 14, 1970
Performances and Activities (2nd and 3rd in the series), Vito Acconci, Terry Fox, Dan Graham, Dennis Oppenheim, Wednesday, January 20, and Monday, February 22 and Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Michael Snow, Wednesday, February 3 and Tuesday, February 23. (poster from Art in the Mind archive)
"Body" (Documentation) Group exhibition): Saturday February 20 - March 19, 1971 (also see Performance & Activities)
Performances & Activities (6th in the series), Peter Hutchinson, Bernar Venet, Christo Gibson), March 31, 1971
Performances & Activities (7th in the series), Vito Acconci, April 9, 1971
Filme von: Acconci, Christo, Graham, Hutchinson, Oppenheim (organized by John Gibson), Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, June 8, 1971 (Look to see if invitation is in the collection before purchasing.)
*Days Off - A Calendar of Happenings published by the Junior Council of MOMA, 1970.
**Described as sixth in the series of Performance and Activities produced by John Gibson. How many were done and what are they?
*needs further confirmation
**Is this same exhibition as the one listed below it?
*** Are "Body" and "Body Art" (both in 1971) the same exhibition?