Jay Gorney

Presentation Details
Jay Gorney will present works by the 1980s art collective Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) and by Studio K.O.S. The collective grew out of a transformative educational program conceived by the artist Tim Rollins at a South Bronx public high school, merging art-making with reading and discussing literary texts. Rollins and his students exhibited at Jay Gorney Modern Art in New York in 1986, and later at the Venice Biennale, Documenta 8 and the Whitney Biennial. The presentation at Independent will contextualize this history, featuring works on book pages created by the original collective in the 1990s as well as more recent works by Studio K.O.S., which continues Rollins’s legacy of art and youth mentorship following his passing in 2017.