exhibition archive

#20
Ping-Pong Dialogues
Bill Beckley
curated by Jo Melvin

14.05.08 - 14.06.08

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Images

See also: Installation Views

 

Original Images

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Silent Ping Pong 1971
Four tables 24 x 48 inches, foam, aluminium, polywood, steel
Collection: Rudolf Zwirner, Berlin

 

 

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Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Song for a Chin-up 1971
Performed at 93 Greene Street Holly Solomon Loft
Performer from Julliard School of Music

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Short Story for Hopscotch 1971
Installation at Konrad Fischer Gallery 1972

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Song for a Sliding Board November 1971
Singer climbs the stair of the sliding board, sings the entire song into a microphone
at the top, then slides down.
First performed at 98 Greene Street Holly Solomon Loft in 1971

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Installation view 1973, Silent Ping Pong and Popsicles

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Popsicle

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Pipes and Hics 1980
Cibachrome photographs and aluminium pipes, 274 x 202 cm
Collection: Tate Gallery London

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Mao Dead 1976
Cibachrome and black and white photographs, 101 x 304 cm
Collection: Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sammlung Hoffman, Berlin

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Roses Are, Violets Are. Sugar Are 1974
95 x 228 cm Cibachrome Photographs


 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Twigs Painted White 1969
Latex paint on branches, photograph 16 x 20 inches

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Myself as Washington

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Wachington Crossing the Delaware

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Dear Julia 1969
Two painted panels, Oil on linen, 96 x 48 inches each

 

 

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Turtle Inside box 1969
Live turtle and wooden box across door, 8 x 38 inches

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Painted Shrubs for Sol Le Witt

 

 

Bill Beckley: Ping-Pong Dialogues

Rooster Bed Lying