Lawrence Markey Inc.

LAWRENCE WEINER

at Lawrence Markey
San Antonio, TX

October 19–December 8, 2006

Lawrence Markey is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition of works by Lawrence Weiner.

The exhibition will feature a new work created for this show:

AWAY FROM THE WIND, AWAY FROM THE SUN, AWAY FROM THE RAIN, AWAY FROM THE SNOW, AWAY FROM THE SAND & AWAY FROM THE TUMBLED TUMBLEWEED

and a work from 1992:

THE BOULDERS ON TOP RENT & SPLIT

Also on view will be a group of six recent collage drawings, each of which draws on the language of the new work (AWAY FROM THE WIND...), and our recently published book by Weiner: HENRY THE NAVIGATOR IN A SEA OF SAND/ENRIQUE EL NAVEGANTE EN UN MAR DE ARENA.

Regarding this new work and publication, in the words of Lawrence Weiner, who prefers to let his work speak for itself, “It is about building something. And the forces that be.”

Lawrence Weiner, a central figure in the history of Conceptual Art, was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1942. After graduating from high school, he traveled across the country to California, where, in 1960, he used dynamite to create his Cratering Pieces in Mill Valley. His first one-person show was held at the Seth Siegelaub Gallery, New York, in 1964. In 1968 he presented Statements, a book of works composed solely of language, in another show at Siegelaub's gallery, and since then he has continued to explore the capacities and presentation of language as a sculptural medium. The museums in which Weiner has had solo exhibitions have included the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2000), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1994), and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1990). A retrospective exhibition, co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, will open at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in the Fall of 2007. Weiner currently lives in New York City and Amsterdam. (Biographical information courtesy DIA Art Foundation)