Responding to the shortened attention spans of audiences conditioned by television, Joan Logue has collaborated since the 1970s with a host of communities—from experimental choreographers, to activists, to North Shore fishermen—to make now hundreds of succinct, thirty-second “video portraits” ripe with pathos and humor. For this work, filmed in nearby Gloucester, MA, Logue was supported by the Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund, an ambitious partnership between the ICA and WGBH-TV, Boston’s public television, that supported the production and distribution of new works of video art. A broader selection of CAT Fund works are on view in the exhibition 90 YEARS.
90 YEARS is organized by Meghan Clare Considine, Curatorial Assistant; Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator; Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs; Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant; Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator; and Erika Umali, Curator of Collections, with Brianne Chapelle, Curatorial Department Manager.
This exhibition is funded, in part, with support from Kim Sinatra, the Brizius Family Fund for Artists, The Kristen and Kent Lucken Fund for Photography, and Leadership in Art Museums, an initiative to create more racial equity in art museum leadership, supported by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Pilot House Philanthropy, and Alice L. Walton Foundation.
The 1960s Andy Warhol Gallery is supported by Judi Kaufman and Arthur Rubin.
With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making this exhibition possible.
