Sopheap Pich: Compound
Material and Document: Experiments in Photography during the 1970s
Test Site: How to Make a One Minute Sculpture
Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries
Wolfgang Tillmans
Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises
Between Two Worlds
The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age
Polaroids by Andy Warhol
David Herbert and the Mystery of the Holy Mountain
Shelf Life
2011 University of Washington MFA Thesis Exhibition
The Talent Show
“Landscape as Real Estate”: Lewis Baltz Photographs in the Henry Art Gallery Collections
Lucy Pullen: The Cloud Chamber and Related Works
Inspiring Vision
Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography and Seattle Camera Club
Uta Barth
A Fire In My Belly, A Work in Progress
Joe Deal and Views of the Altered Landscape
Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber
Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture
SuttonBeresCuller: Panoptos
Vortexhibition Polyphonica
Light Reign, James Turrell SkyspaceA Fire In My Belly, A Work in Progress
Other Location
December 16, 2010 – February 13, 2011
The National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has been the site of controversy since December 1, when museum officials responded to political pressures and removed a film by the late artist David Wojnarowicz from the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. In response to this crisis, two versions of the film A Fire in My Belly, A Work in Progress (1986-87) will be on view at the Henry Art Gallery until February 13, 2011, when Hide/Seek closes at the national Portrait Gallery.
The Henry’s installation will also include Wojnarowicz’s poster project Untitled (One Day This Kid) (1990) which has been made available for download through the artist’s estate and P.P.O.W. Gallery ; and a selection of statements (from the Smithsonian, the Catholic League, the Warhol Foundation, the Association of Art Museum Directors, and from regional museum directors). A display of articles and essays sparked by these events will also be available, including. This display of resources for discussion is expandable, and as the conversation continues Henry staff will incorporate new materials.
A Fire in My Belly, A Work in Progress, into which the artist has edited a montage of video footage shot in Mexico, has been said to capture his anger and struggle with both the death of a lover and his own H.I.V. diagnosis. Since its making, this film has become an iconic art work from the 1980s and has had a visible place in AIDS activism in New York and the U.S.