Artwork Survey: 1980s

Allan McCollum

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  1. Surrogates On Location
    1982-84
    Snapshots from television screen
    Variable dimensions

    Reference photos for Plaster Surrogates

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  2. Plaster Surrogates
    Installation view of "From the Permanent Collection" at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
    1982 - 1983
    Enamel on cast Hydrostone
    Variable dimensions

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  3. Plaster Surrogates
    Installation view of "Gallery view" at Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York
    1982 - 1984
    Enamel on cast Hydrostone
    Variable dimensions

    Photo by Eric Baum

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  4. Installation view, "Perpetual Photos,"
    1982 - 1990
    Silver gelatin prints
    50 × 45 inches with frame

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  5. Perfect Vehicles
    Installation view at Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 1988
    1985 - 1987
    Acrylic on cast Hydrocal
    19 1/2 × 8 × 8 1/2 inches each

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  6. "Twenty-five Perfect Vehicles with Twenty-five" with "Gallery Lamps"
    Installation view at Diane Brown Gallery, New York, 1987
    1985/87
    Acrylic on cast Hydrocal
    19 1/2 × 8 × 8 1/2 inches each

    Photo by Bill Jacobson Studio

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  7. Over Ten Thousand Individual Works
    1987/88

    To produce the Individual Works, hundreds of small shapes are casually collected from friends’ homes, supermarkets, hardware stores, and sidewalks: bottle caps, jar lids, drawer pulls, salt shakers, flashlights, measuring spoons, cosmetic containers, yogurt cups, earrings, push buttons, candy molds, garden hose connectors, paperweights, shade pulls, Chinese teacups, cat toys, pencil sharpeners, and so on.
    The cast shapes are combined into parts which will each serve as "half" a work. These halves are numbered and organized onto standard trays.
    Rubber molds are produced from the collection of shapes. The replicas of these shapes can be cast in large quantities, thus creating a vocabulary of forms that can be combined to produce new shapes.
    Rubber molds are made from the halves, in order to reproduce the trays many times.
    Photo by Eric Baum

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  8. Over Ten Thousand Individual Works
    1987/88
    Enamel on cast Hydrocal, 2 inches in diameter each, with variable lengths, each unique

    Photo by Fred Scruton

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  9. Over Ten Thousand Individual Works, detail
    1987/88
    Enamel on cast Hydrocal, 2 inches in diameter each, with variable lengths, each unique

    Photo by Fred Scruton

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  10. Over Ten Thousand Individual Works
    Installation view at Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
    1987/88
    Enamel on cast Hydrocal, 2 inches in diameter each, with variable lengths, each unique

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  11. Over Ten Thousand Individual Works
    Installation view at Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
    1987/88
    Enamel on cast Hydrocal, 2 inches in diameter each, with variable lengths, each unique

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  12. Drawings Templates and written protocols
    1988

    Photo by Eric Baum

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum

  13. Drawings
    Installation view at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
    1988/92-93
    Graphite pencil on museum board
    Each unique, Dimensions variable

    Courtesy the artist

    © Allan McCollum