January 11 - February 16, 2002

walk during a few moments very consciously
in a certain direction;
simultaneously an infinite number
of living creatures in the universe
are moving in an infinite number of directions.

stanley brouwn, art & project bulletin 11, 1969

stanley brouwn has published books on a regular basis since 1970. These books are an integral part of his work. For his exhibition at the Christine Burgin Gallery, his first exhibition in a New York gallery in twenty-five years, brouwn has designed an installation which consists solely of these books.

In New Art in the 60s and 70s (Thames and Hudson, 2001), Anne Rorimer situates brouwn amongst the group of artists -- Sol Lewitt, Hanne Darboven and On Kawara -- whose serial based work of the 60s helped to define one of the key methodologies of Conceptual Art. She quotes Lewitt's Paragraphs of Conceptual Art from 1969: "To work with a plan that is pre-set is one way of avoiding subjectivity. Some plans would require millions of variations, and some a limited number, but both are infinite. Other plans imply infinity." For brouwn, the plan, which gives order to all, is the step.

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