Cady Noland Explained

Cady Noland
Birth Place:Washington, D.C.
Nationality:American
Training:Sarah Lawrence College
Works:Oozewald (1989)
This Piece Has No Title Yet (1989)
The Big Slide (1989)
Tower of Terror (1993-1994)

Cady Noland (born 1956) is an American postmodern conceptual sculptor and an internationally exhibited installation artist whose work deals with the failed promise of the American Dream and the divide between fame and anonymity, among other themes.[1] [2] Her work has been exhibited in museums and expositions including the Whitney Biennial in 1991 and Documenta 9 in Kassel, Germany.[3] Noland is known for her reluctance to be publicly identified, having only ever allowed one photograph of herself to be publicly released, and for her numerous disputes and lawsuits with museums, galleries, and collectors over their handling of her work.[4] She attended Sarah Lawrence College and is the daughter of the Color Field painter Kenneth Noland.

Style and themes

Noland's work often explores what she calls "The American Nightmare", aspects of American culture she considers toxic, such as social climbing, glamour, celebrity, violence, and death. She calls these social constructs a "game." Noland's work has dealt with themes of restriction, both physical and mental, often using metal to evoke senses of joining or separating.[5]

Noland's work's central theme is fear, both personal and cultural. Crashed Car was brought about by the fact that she was in a car wreck at a very young age. In Plane Crash she emphasizes her fear of flying. The Family and the SLA that kidnapped Hearst is based on her fear of cults. Her later works have been said to be less aggressive, friendlier to viewers, and more stable and grounded.[6]

Noland's work also studies the American social landscape and depicts America's social identity in fragments. She also makes sculptures prompted by the theme of humiliation that in part lives in the American consciousness. It is all in relation to the institution, containment and mobility, and to the American way of life.[7]

Patty Hearst and her grandfather, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, have both been recurring figures in Noland's work. Noland has used Patty's story as a kidnapping victim who later joined her kidnappers—the Symbionese Liberation Army—in several high-profile crimes, as well as her grandfather's role as an architect of the contemporary American media landscape, to explore themes of propaganda, brainwashing, and psychopathy.

Noland's arrangement of objects have a casualness that calls into question the status of the art object and its artistic position, and her works are often composed of assembled found objects. Like those of artists such as Mike Scott and Laurie Parsons, Noland's paintings resist interpretation.[8] Appropriated by Noland, the role of the press photograph expanded in a post-war country that understood and exported itself through images. She is known for reframing the photo she appropriates through the materiality of the image itself. It is then transferred by silkscreen from source to surface. According to Noland, to reproduce the image is to insert it into a category of knowledge and understanding, one transformed by way of a continuous return.[9]

Objectification Process (1989) features a rolled-up flag placed on an orthopedic walker. Noland's incorporation of walkers, canes, police barricades, and fences work to convey themes of immobility, containment, confinement, and violence.

This Piece Has No Title Yet (1989), one of Noland's best-known works, is a room-sized installation composed of over 1000 six-packs of Budweiser beer stacked behind metal scaffolding. Curator and dealer Jeffrey Deitch called the work "her masterpiece, her greatest work."[10]

In her work Not Yet Titled (Bald Manson Girls Sit-In Demonstration) (1993–1994), Noland changes both the image and the text. It is a wire photo capturing four of the young women from the Manson family kneeling on a sidewalk.[9]

Relationship with art market

Noland set the record for the highest price ever paid for an artwork by a living woman ($6.6 million) with Oozewald (1989), sold at Sotheby's.[11] In 2012, Sotheby's removed her aluminum print Cowboys Milking (1990) from a contemporary sale after she "disavowed" the work.[12] Both Noland and the auction house were later sued by the piece's owner, gallerist Marc Jancou, for $26 million (with $20 million sought from Noland and $6 million from Sotheby's).[13] A judge dismissed the suit.[14]

Noland's 1989 red silkscreen on aluminum of Lee Harvey Oswald, Bluewald, sold for $9.8 million at Christie's in May 2015, setting a new auction record for the artist.[15]

In June 2015, the Ohio collector Scott Mueller filed a lawsuit at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to reverse his 2014 purchase of Noland's sculpture Log Cabin (1990) for $1.4 million; he claimed that Nolan had "disavowed" the work by not approving the extensive restoration of the piece.[12] The artist disavowed her sculpture after its sale to Mueller because she believed the work had been restored "beyond recognition."[16] This restoration occurred after a long-term loan to Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, Germany, where the logs had deteriorated from 10 years of outdoor exposure. A conservator was consulted and hired to complete the restoration in Germany, where all the decayed wood was replaced by logs obtained from the same Montana source as the originals.[17] Noland, who believes she should have been consulted about this, felt the extensively restored piece was essentially recreated, and was therefore an unauthorized copy of the original, violating her copyright protections as outlined in the Visual Artists Rights Act, a 1990 addition to the US Copyright law.[18]

Since the disavowal in 2016, Noland has been involved in complicated legal battles over the restoration of Log Cabin and the application of copyright law to the materials used in her sculpture, German vs. US laws, and her rights to copyright as a living artist.[19] A lawsuit was dismissed in June 2020 by a New York district court judge, who ruled that Noland's rights had not been violated.[16]

Several critics have suggested that Noland's legal disputes surrounding the sale, restoration, and treatment of various works, along with her longtime self-imposed distance from the traditional gallery ecosystem, are themselves a form of artistic statement and communication.[20] [21] Writing for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Zoë Lescaze posited, "She has become known as the art world’s boogeyman, but she might be its conscience."[22]

Exhibition history

Noland's first solo exhibition took place in 1989 at Colin de Land's American Fine Arts gallery in New York.[23]

Noland's major exhibitions include: Whitney Biennial, New York (1991); Strange Abstraction with Robert Gober, Philip Taaffe, and Christopher Wool, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1991); Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (1994); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1995); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (1996); Documenta 9, Kassel (1992); MONO: Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich (1999); Cady Noland: The American Dream, Frans Hals Museum - Hal, Haarlem (2010–11);[24] and Cady Noland (2018-2019), an extensive survey of the artist's work at Museum of Modern Art, MMK in Frankfurt.[25]

The American Dream (2010–2011) was an exhibition of assemblages and silkscreens that showed Noland's practice from 1989 to 1995, the year of her last solo presentation in the Netherlands at Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Noland's first solo gallery show in the United States in over two decades, The Clip-On Method, opened at Galerie Buchholz in New York in 2021 and was accompanied by the publication of a two-volume artist's book of the same.[26]

Notable works in public collections

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jca-online.com/noland.html JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, conversation, Cady Noland and Michèle Cone
  2. Web site: Cady Noland - Artist Biography for Cady Noland . askart.com. September 20, 2015.
  3. Web site: One Art World . oneartworld.com. September 20, 2015.
  4. Web site: Russeth . Andrew . This American Life: Cady Noland's Art Feels More Prescient, Incisive, and Urgent Than Ever . ARTnews . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210418235608/https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/icons-cady-noland-10014/ . 18 April 2021 . 27 March 2018 . live.
  5. Book: Butler. Cornelia . Schwartz . Alexandra . Modern women : women artists at the Museum of Modern Art. 2010. Museum of Modern Art. New York. 9780870707711. 397.
  6. Parrino . Steven . Paranoia Americana: The New Work of Cady Noland . Afterall . 2005 . 11 . 3–8 . 20711565 .
  7. Book: 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T096914 . Noland, Cady . Oxford Art Online . 2000 . Summers . Francis . 978-1-884446-05-4 .
  8. Mosset . Olivier . Star Trek, Neo-Geo: The Next Generation . Bomb . 1989 . 29 . 66–71 . 40423901 .
  9. . Korczynski . Jacob . Pierre Leguillon features Diane Arbus: A Printed Retrospective. 1960–1971 & Cady Noland: The American Dream . C: International Contemporary Art . 110 . Summer 2011 . 47–48 .
  10. Binlot . Ann . Vanity Fair, Genesis, and the Rubell Museum Kick Off Miami Art Week . Vanity Fair . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201203202645/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/12/art-basel-rubell-museum . 3 December 2020 . 3 December 2019 . live.
  11. The price of being female: Post-war artists at auction. Prospero blog. The Economist. May 25, 2012. May 25, 2012.
  12. Laura Gilbert (June 25, 2015), Did Cady Noland disavow another work? The Art Newspaper.
  13. Web site: Dealer Marc Jancou Sues Sotheby's, Cady Noland for $26 M. | Observer . galleristny.com. September 20, 2015.
  14. Web site: Judge Dismisses Marc Jancou's Lawsuit Against Sotheby's | ARTINFO\'s Commentary on the Art Market. blogs.artinfo.com. September 20, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150626131531/http://blogs.artinfo.com/abovetheestimate/2012/11/14/judge-dismisses-marc-jancous-lawsuit-against-sothebys/. June 26, 2015. dead.
  15. News: Picasso and Giacometti Artworks Top $120 Million Each at Christie's Sale. May 11, 2015. May 12, 2015. Reyburn, Scott. The New York Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20150515090636/http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/artsbeat/2015/05/11/two-art-works-top-100-million-each-at-christies-sale/. May 15, 2015. dead.
  16. Web site: 2020-06-03. Cady Noland Said a Collector Restored Her Log Cabin Sculpture Beyond Recognition. A Judge Has Thrown Out Her Lawsuit—for the Third Time. 2020-10-20. artnet News. en-US.
  17. Web site: 2015-06-25. Cady Noland Rejects Restored artwork lawsuit. 2020-10-20. artnet News. en-US.
  18. Web site: Kaplan. Isaac. 2017-07-21. Cady Noland Sues Collector and Galleries to Destroy Artwork "Copy". 2020-10-20. Artsy. en.
  19. Web site: 2018-04-05. Art Dealers Strike Back at Cady Noland in an Increasingly Philosophical Legal Dispute About a Restored Sculpture. 2020-10-20. artnet News. en-US.
  20. Web site: Brazda . Bozidar . Josephine Meckseper . Cady Noland . Flash Art . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211105200527/https://flash---art.com/article/cady-noland/ . 5 November 2021 . 9 November 2015 . live.
  21. Ward . Frazer . Refusals, Disclaimers and Denials: Cady Noland's Recent "Work" . Performance Paradigm . 2018 . 14 . 14 . 28–44 . 24 March 2022 . 1832-5580.
  22. Web site: Lescaze . Zoë . David Breslin . Martha Rosler . Kelly Taxter . Rirkrit Tiravanija . Torey Thornton . Thessaly La Force . The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age . . . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220201123403/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/t-magazine/most-important-contemporary-art.html . 1 February 2022 . 15 July 2019 . live.
  23. Web site: Saltz . Jerry . Invasion of the Sculpture Snatchers . The Village Voice . 25 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191111015206/https://www.villagevoice.com/2006/05/09/invasion-of-the-sculpture-snatchers/ . 11 November 2019 . 9 May 2006 . live.
  24. "Cady Noland". Gagosian. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  25. Web site: Nickas . Bob . Cady Noland at MMK . Spike Art Magazine . 19 March 2019 . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324204856/https://spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles%2Fcady-noland-mmk . 24 March 2022 . live.
  26. Web site: Schwendener . Martha . Jason Farago . Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now . New York Times . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220119112249/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/arts/design/noland-dilg-art-gallery-reviews.html . 19 January 2022 . 7 July 2021 . live.
  27. Web site: Cady Noland, Cart Full of Action . Met Museum . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108151049/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/689922 . 8 January 2022 . live.
  28. Web site: Cady Noland, The American Trip . MOMA . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108151632/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/101477?artist_id=7817&page=1&sov_referrer=artist . 8 January 2022 . live.
  29. Web site: The Big Slide . Art Institute of Chicago . 1989 . 20 May 2022.
  30. Web site: Booth - The Big Plunge . SMAK . . 8 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221108034235/https://smak.be/en/collection/the-collection/1007 . 8 November 2022 . live.
  31. Web site: Cady Noland, Celebrity Trash Spill . Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108151047/https://kunstmuseum.li/?page=31&kid=57&lan=en . 8 January 2022 . live.
  32. Web site: Deep Social Space . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220524002351/https://www.museum-brandhorst.de/en/collection/deep-social-space/ . 24 May 2022 . live.
  33. Web site: Cady Noland, Frame Device . Hammer Museum . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200715/https://hammer.ucla.edu/take-it-or-leave-it/art/frame-device . 20 October 2020 . live.
  34. Web site: Objectification Process . ICA Boston . 1989 . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108225925/https://www.icaboston.org/art/cady-noland/objectification-process . 8 January 2022 . live.
  35. Web site: Cady Noland . Glenstone . 8 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220108151044/https://www.glenstone.org/artist/cady-noland/ . 8 January 2022 . live.
  36. Web site: Oozewald, Cady Noland . MUHKA . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201130012805/https://www.muhka.be/collections/artworks/o/item/2245-oozewald . 30 November 2020 . live.
  37. Web site: Tanya as a Bandit . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115142502/https://www.museum-brandhorst.de/en/collection/tanya-as-a-bandit/ . 15 November 2022 . live.
  38. Web site: Tanya as a Bandit . MoMA . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115142620/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/112524? . 15 November 2022 . live.
  39. Web site: Cady Noland Tanya as a Bandit . . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210704030957/https://whitney.org/collection/works/34848 . 4 July 2021 . live.
  40. Web site: Cady Noland . Rubell Museum . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108151044/https://rubellmuseum.org/at-cady-noland . 8 January 2022 . live.
  41. Web site: Untitled . ArtBMA . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115151659/https://collection.artbma.org/objects/38704/untitled . 15 November 2022 . live.
  42. Web site: Untitled . ICABoston . 1989 . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115144246/https://www.icaboston.org/art/cady-noland/untitled . 15 November 2022 . live.
  43. Web site: Cady Noland . Wadsworth Atheneum . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324200344/https://5058.sydneyplus.com/argus/final/Portal/Public.aspx?lang=en-US&g_AABJ=cady+noland&d=d . 24 March 2022 . live.
  44. Web site: Awning Blanks . SMAK . . 8 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221108034415/https://smak.be/en/collection/the-collection/1006 . 8 November 2022 . live.
  45. Web site: Chainsaw Cut Cowboy Head . MCA Chicago . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324200929/https://mcachicago.org/collection/items/cady-noland/2679-chainsaw-cut-cowboy-head . 24 March 2022 . live.
  46. Web site: Noland, Cady, Chainsaw Cut Cowboy with Baked Beans, 1990 . Museum Ludwig . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324194852/https://museum-ludwig.kulturelles-erbe-koeln.de/documents/obj/05092730 . 24 March 2022 . live.
  47. Web site: Dance Hall Doors . SFMoMA . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108155609/https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/90.253.A-U/ . 8 January 2022 . live.
  48. Web site: Enquirer Page with Eyes Cut Out . SFMoMA . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108152553/https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/97.522.A-D/ . 8 January 2022 . live.
  49. Web site: Misc. Spill . MOCA LA . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108151553/https://www.moca.org/collection/work/misc-spill . 8 January 2022 . live.
  50. Web site: Press Czar - telling the story of Randolph Hearst . SMAK . . 8 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221108034531/https://smak.be/en/collection/the-collection/2357 . 8 November 2022 . live.
  51. Web site: SLA Group Shot #4 . MOCA . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115150423/https://www.moca.org/collection/work/sla-group-shot . 15 November 2022 . live.
  52. Web site: Cady Noland, SLA #4 . Guggenheim . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108225723/https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5404 . 8 January 2022 . live.
  53. Web site: Pipe Soffit. . MOCA . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115150258/https://www.moca.org/collection/work/pipe-soffit . 15 November 2022 . live.
  54. Web site: Mr. Sir . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220524181752/https://www.thebroad.org/art/cady-noland/mr-sir . 24 May 2022 . live.
  55. Web site: SHAM DEATH Cady Noland . The Broad . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210411061717/https://www.thebroad.org/art/cady-noland/sham-death . 11 April 2021 . live.
  56. Web site: Untitled Xerox Cut-Out (Squeaky Fromme/Gerald Ford) . MoMA . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115144318/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/96827 . 15 November 2022 . live.
  57. Web site: Cady Noland, Walk and Stalk . SF MOMA . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108160007/https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/97.796/ . 8 January 2022 . live.
  58. Web site: Joan, is there one law? . ArtIC . 1994 . . 15 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115144536/https://www.artic.edu/artworks/242446/joan-is-there-one-law . 15 November 2022 . live.
  59. Web site: Untitled . . 8 November 2022 . de.
  60. Web site: Untitled - Cady Noland . Rose Art Museum . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324195451/https://rosecollection.brandeis.edu/objects-1/info/12920?sort=0 . 24 March 2022 . live.
  61. Web site: 4 in One Sculpture . CCS Bard . Bard College . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324195321/https://bard.emuseum.com/objects/563/4-in-one-sculpture?ctx=eced6a4409adc269f7fb373c6869f5ec22ad2451&idx=0 . 24 March 2022 . live.
  62. Web site: Untitled Cady Noland . Walker Art . 24 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210803193913/https://walkerart.org/collections/artworks/untitled-285 . 3 August 2021 . live.

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