Horse drawings

Made with paint, but usually understood by SMW as drawings. The words “drawing” and “painting” often used interchangeably. A bit of a “liminal space”.

The horses are very intuitive — usually five-minute pieces. Often, they depict the same horse face in a range of situations: from hanging itself to firing a cannon; in solitude or accompanied by other horses and/or a statement. The statements are intended as motivational reflections (RR), questions or expressions of perceived truths. Started when Sands turned 40 as a form of therapy and as a method for feeling happy. Typically, these are monochromatic or bi-chromatic, in black or blue. The body is also included, of the horse, and flowers, stars, hearts, rainbows, rivers, cacti and mountains and clouds and sky and birds flying and sometimes butterflies. If Sands feels anything is unclear, then he just paints what it is and puts an arrow pointing to the unclear thing. This is an unlimited series, painted with brushes in paint water, which is never cleaned or refreshed, only topped up. So, the color is from dirty paint water mixed with whatever color Sands feels appropriate spontaneously. Sands’ favorite paper is 80-gram white A4 (European or otherwise) printer paper. The cheaper and the more wrinkled when painted the better. Must keep that “trashy” quality, throw-away disposable etc. There are hundreds of these on various papers, also on pages from 1980s gay liberation magazine, the French “Gai Pied”. – SMW

Listings connecting to the sub typology “Horse drawings” (56)

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Photographer: Tomek Dersu Aaron

  • Catalog No.
  • 02364-2021-DoP-BackstageWithGiftScienceArchi…
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  • Backstage with Gift Science Archive
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  • Variable
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  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
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Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

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Photographer: Tomek Dersu Aaron

  • Catalog No.
  • 02366-2021-DoP-BackstageWithGiftScienceArchi…
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  • Backstage with Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

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Photographer: Tomek Dersu Aaron

  • Catalog No.
  • 02367-2021-DoP-BackstageWithGiftScienceArchi…
  • Title
  • Backstage with Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

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Photographer: Tomek Dersu Aaron

  • Catalog No.
  • 02361-2021-DoP-BackstageWithGiftScienceArchi…
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  • Backstage with Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

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Photographer: Tomek Dersu Aaron

  • Catalog No.
  • 02363-2021-DoP-BackstageWithGiftScienceArchi…
  • Title
  • Backstage with Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

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  • 02070-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
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  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #123
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  • Variable
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  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
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Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02074-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
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  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #127
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  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02099-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #152
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  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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Photographer: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01735-2021-MaPi-MakingInGoodCompany69
  • Title
  • Making In Good Company
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 93 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 22 February-5 March, 2021. Location: mistral, Amsterdam (Pakhuis Wilhelmina).

  • Reflection Notes

Woman power tea.

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Photographer: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01748-2021-MaPi-MakingInGoodCompany82
  • Title
  • Making In Good Company
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 93 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 22 February-5 March, 2021. Location: mistral, Amsterdam (Pakhuis Wilhelmina).

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01383-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-037
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“Finding a rhythm in collaboration. What you can't see here, is the music that Sands was playing.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01393-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-047
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

GSA meeting – 12.01.20. “Metaphoric and concrete, it all lives together. Horizontality has a logical structure to it, and so does messiness.” – MH.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01371-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-025
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“The start of the horse cloud. You have to start somewhere. It looks like there is no ‘system’ or ‘strategy’ for hanging this work, but in a way there is: it is a relational one, we figure the structure out by doing.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01404-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-008
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  • Horse Cloud
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  • Variable
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  • 14 phone snapshots
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  • Digital
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Date: 04.03.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of working on large horse cloud with SMW, MH and Amalia Calderón. First time GSA meeting with Amalia present, images of Sands and Amalia talking with poster of Hannah Wilke in the background.

  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “[I feel] nervous, uncomfortable.” – SMW. “It’s about the way they [visitors] manoeuvre their space. It completely changed – intruder!” – AC. “We are a collective and part of our work is the corporeality of it.” – SMW. “We are representing two silent [not present] partners. We are performative. How to do that without the performers?” – AC. “Just leave the door open.” – SMW. “We are not complete renegades, only slightly.” – AC.

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Photographer: Silvia Ulloa Márquez

  • Catalog No.
  • 01491-2020-DoP-ProcessEvent#1VALUE11
  • Title
  • Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?
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  • Digital image file
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In the opening process event of Murray-Wassink’s year-long guest residency at the Rijksakademie, the artist and collaborators (Amalia Calderón, Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping) took stock of the artist’s oeuvre with guest Vivian van Saaze (Associate Professor of Conservation and Museum Studies at Maastricht University). Conversation focused on the tensions between productive and reproductive value in art objects, and the status of the art object in ‘the archive’. Friday 6 March 2020, 18.30-20.30hr, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Sarphatistraat 470, 1018 GW Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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