LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the first New York museum exhibition of artist Clifford Owens (American, b. 1971). The solo exhibition premieres Owens’s latest body of work, Anthology, which consists primarily of photography, video, and live performance. Organized by MoMA PS1 Assistant Curator Christopher Y. Lew, Clifford Owens: Anthology will remain on view until March 12, 2012. Anthology features performances scores—written or graphical instructions for action —
that Owens solicited from a multigenerational group of African-American artists. Twenty-six major artists have contributed scores, nearly all of whom composed new works specifically for Owens and his project. Owens has long known that African-American performance art has been underrecognized and that its history remains largely unwritten. Rather than producing scholarly research on the topic, Owens has created a new series of work that acti