Mary Beth Edelson: 22 Others
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Overview
The Suzanne Geiss Company
76 Grand Street
New York, NY
22 Others was a conceptual art project created by Mary Beth Edelson between 1971 and 1973 with the intention to both expand the artist’s connections with her community by inviting others into her art making process and experimenting with Carl Jung’s construct of the collective unconscious. Forty years after Edelson’s initial installment of 22 Others in Washington D.C., this historical exhibition was restaged for its New York debut at The Suzanne Geiss Company.“The intention was to meditate on their suggestions, taking that energy, and fusing it with my own to come up with a third energy that would (hopefully) generate the premise for each of the 22 artworks. This conceptual project was based on Jung’s construct of the collective unconscious and was inspired by my five-year participation in a Jungian seminar and my fascination with the possibilities inherent in the theory of the collective unconscious. This process generated a number of breakthrough works that resulted in an exhibition titled 22 Others simultaneously held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Henri Gallery, Washington DC, 1973.” _Mary Beth Edelson
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Installation Shots
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News
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Mary Beth Edelson: ‘22 Others’, by Karen Rosenberg
The New York Times April 4, 2013The Suzanne Geiss Company 76 Grand Street, between Wooster and Greene Streets, SoHo Through April 20 In the early 1970s Mary Beth Edelson invited some...Read more -
Mary Beth Edelson, The Suzanne Geiss Company, by Kate Sutton
ARTFORUM March 8, 2013Mary Beth Edelson’s 1972 collage Some Living American Women Artists features—as its title suggests—a coterie of female artists cut and pasted over the sallow faces...Read more
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