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House of Cards

Photo by: Rayne Wilder

House of Cards

1993, refabricated 2007

Gary Hill

American, born 1951

Seven-channel video/sound installation (NTSC, black-and-white, sound)
variable, ladder approximately 8 feet high
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David E. Skinner, William and Ruth True, and the Collectors' Forum
96.10
Photo by: Rayne Wilder
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryAarhus, Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, "Strange Hotel", September 4 - November 14, 1993

Traveling exhibition organized by the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. "Gary Hill" - Dates & Venues: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC - February 17-May 8, 1994; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washignton, Seattle, WA - June 10-August 14, 1994; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL - September 24-November 27, 1994; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, NY - May 11-August 20, 1995. Text by Chris Bruce, et. al. Ill. p. 89

Paris, France, Galerie des Archives, "Hand Heard/Liminal Objects", 1996

Germany, Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, "Group Exhibition", May 25, 1996 - January 1, 1997

New York, New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, "Liminal Objects, 1995 Onward", December 5, 1998 - January 23, 1999

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Language Let Loose", July 15, 2000 - April 29, 2001

Published ReferencesYoung, Lisa Jaye. "Review: Eletronic Verses: Reading the Body vs. Touching the Text." Performing Arts Journal, vol. 18, no. 1 (Jan. 1996), p. 36-43. Ill. p. 40; p. 42

Hill, Gary and Holger Broeker. Gary Hill: Selected Works & Catalogue Raisonne. Cologne: Dumont, 2002. Cat. no. 77; ill. p. 169; p. 81, 169-173, 248

Quasha, George, Charles Stein, "An Art of Limina Gary Hill's Works and Writings", Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 2009, pg 401-403, 481

Dziedzic, Erin and Sean O'Harrow. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: 25 Years ay Kemper Museum. Kansas City: Kemper Museum; 2019, p. 35, reproduced fig. 16.

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