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Hirsshorn Exhibitions organized by Sidney Lawrence

“Directions - - Ron Mueck” (July 18 – Oct. 27, 2002). First solo museum show in U.S. or Britain of works by London-based sculptor of hyperrealist figures.  
            2000-word exhibition brochure with bibliography  

“Directions - - Tony Oursler: Video Dolls with Tracy Liepold” (July 2 – Sept. 7, 1998).  Video-animated figures with a focus on projects with his most frequent and effective model-collaborator.   
            2000-word exhibition brochure with bibliography

“Directions - - Alison Saar” (April 1 – July 25, 1993).  Succinct, 24-work career survey of this Los Angeles-born, Brooklyn-based sculptor. 
            2500-word exhibition brochure with bibliography    

“Directions - - Boyd Webb” (Nov. 1, 1990 - Jan. 27, 1991). Quirky set-up color photographs of “green” subjects by New Zealand-born, London-based artist. 
            2000-word exhibition brochure with bibliography  
            Brochure text adapted for a Webb catalog in 1992 at the Nerman Museum of  
            Contemporary Art near Kansas City, Kansas. 

“Houston Conwill WORKS” (Aug. 2 – Oct. 29, 1989). A site-specific installation of texts from blues, spirituals and African-American leadership on the concrete floor of Hirshhorn’s 1.3 acre outdoor plaza.  
            Poster/brochure with 2000-word interview, project plan, and text reprints
            Essay in Hirshhorn Works 89

“Roger Brown” (Aug. 13 – Oct. 17, 1987, and tour to La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Fla., and Des Moines Art Center, Iowa).  Mid-career retrospective of 53 works, 1968-1986, by a key painter of the Chicago Imagist movement.     
            3000-word exhibition brochure
            Catalog: Roger Brown (George Braziller, New York, 120 pp), with a guest essay by critic John Yau,
            photo pages of artworks and vernacular objects influential to Brown, an interview section 
            interweaving the artist’s comments with those of a mentor, scholar and longtime dealer, and a      
            chronology juxtaposing Brown’s life with the horrific news headlines that have typically generated his
            subjects. 


Also about Roger Brown 

Bulletin of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago “Eulogy,” fall 1997.

GSA Art-in-Architecture Program, “The Roger Brown Mosaic at Foley Square, New York.”  Brochure to accompany U.S. government-commissioned artwork at newly discovered African Burial Ground, 1996.

Roger Brown from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Roger Brown’s Gift,” catalog essay for Federal Reserve Board exhibition catalog, 2005, Washington DC

Roger Brown: Southern Exposure (2007, guest curator)