Betty Parsons
in ‘Looking Back / The 14th White Columns Annual’, White Columns, New York
19 January – 2 March 2024
‘Looking Back / The 14th White Columns Annual’, installation view, 2024, White Columns, New York. Courtesy of the artist and White Columns, New York; photo: Marc Tatti
Betty Parsons in included in Looking Back, the 14th edition of White Columns’ Annual exhibition, selected by the New York-based writer and curator Randy Kennedy.
As with previous ‘Annuals’ an individual or a collaborative team (e.g. an artist, a curator, a writer, etc.) is invited to organise an exhibition based on their personal experiences and interactions with art in New York City during the previous year. In a very straightforward way, the ‘Annual’ exhibitions hope to reveal something of the complexities involved in trying to negotiate – and engage with – New York’s constantly shifting cultural landscapes. The format of the exhibition inevitably encourages highly subjective and personal responses to the realities of viewing art in New York City. The ‘Annual’ exhibition series hopes to illuminate aspects of the specific, yet highly idiosyncratic networks – historical, social, aesthetic, etc. – that individuals follow in an increasingly expansive and fragmented cultural environment.