Reisig and Taylor Contemporary is holding a closing reception for “Blue Print,” the first installation in a series of “Gallery Structures” constructed by the gallery. The closing reception is on Friday, May 12, from Noon - 7pm. The series of Gallery Structures is a critical and formal curatorial engagement with the structure of the gallery. Without identified artists, and without authorized “artworks,” the series situates a literal encounter with the space of the gallery as a work of art in itself. Habitually, the gallery is often regarded as a non-conscious or passive space where art is propped-up or placed; however, the materials, motifs, and histories of the gallery-space are always already structuring the possibilities of encountering an artwork (and pre-configuring the perspectives of observation). As the initial inquiry into the questions of the agency of the gallery-space, Blue Print is the gallery’s way of putting the (invisible or otherwise understated) act of the gallery (back) into the spaces, times, and systems at work in the physical housing and location of Reisig and Taylor Contemporary at 2680 South La Cienega Boulevard. Directly, “Blue Print” asks: What is the structure of the gallery? What is the structure of the curatorial act? And, how can these structures be deconstructed, exhibited, endured, shown, or demonstrated without repressing its underlying processes and components? Responding to these basic questions of space, time, and exhibition, the work forms an immersive “blueprint” of the gallery by awakening latent elements and perennial forms permeating the gallery’s structure, dreaming what the gallery conceals in the silence of its sleep. This is a work with the presences and absences of the gallery-space. Curated by objet A.D (object 80). | Image: A Writing Lesson (0) 2023