NAM JUNE PAIK

YEAR

1994

DIMENSIONS

82 x 66 x 66

MATERIALS

24 video monitors; 2 antique radios; 6 antique television cabinets; antique brass telephone; speaker horn; 3 telephones; Howard Wise’s personal items: Polaroid prints, rolodex, brief case, wallet, papers, buttons; chair and desk: Sintra, Plexiglas, aluminum, and plywood; 4 laser disc players; 4 laser discs

FROM

Carl Solway Gallery

LOCATION

Butler Institute of American Art

EXHIBITED AT

Whitney Museum exhibition 6/8 – 8/7/94; San Jose Museum 1998 as organized by Whitney Museum

Comments: Created for Whitney Museum exhibition “The Howard Wise Gallery: TV as a Creative Medium, 1969”

NAM JUNE PAIK

YEAR

1969

DIMENSIONS

96 x 57 x 18

MATERIALS

Philco Color lite TV set, two microphones N.Y. amplifiers

FROM

Artist

LOCATION

Butler Institute of American Art

EXHIBITED AT

Wadsworth Atheneum 1984; Clock Tower 1986; PULSE 2 at S.B. 1990 (Peake Gallery); Ulrich Museum Wichita State 3/11/92 – 4/26/92; Butler

DESCRIPTION

On display at Whitney retrospective (previously at Neuberger Museum Soundings) and agreed to sell to DWB if all his bills were paid for. Refused to estimate. DWB agreed anyway. Paul Garrin constructed. Acquired in 1982 (after Howard Wise talk on 5/28/82) (paid all his bills for Whitney exhibition + $1,000 sent to him for new TV set) 1982 commissioned replica.