Richard Serra, Walter De Maria, and Richard Nonas were among the artists to participate in this exhibition, which articulated much of the ideals and conceptualizations of installation art and has since become emblematic of the alternative space movement.
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In 1973, the Clocktower Gallery, located in a municipal building in Lower Manhattan, opened with its three inaugural shows: Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, and James Bishop.
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Over the next three decades, P.S.1 became one of the most respected exhibition and performance spaces in New York, with such exhibitions as New York, New Wave (1981); Stalin's Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism, 1932-1956 (1993); Greater New York (2000 and 2005), and Arctic Hysteria (2008); Robert Grosvenor (1976); Keith Sonnier (1983); Alex Katz: Under the Stars, American Landscapes 1951-1995 (1998); John Wesley: Paintings 1961-2000 (2000), and Gino De Dominicis (2008).
In the scale of its ambition, Pioneer Works recalls P.S.1, the contemporary art center founded by Alanna Heiss in 1976.
Contemporary Art Center show Greater New York, held March 13, 2005 through September 26, 2005—and selected by Klaus Biesenbach, Alanna Heiss, Glenn Lowry, Robert Nickas, Amy Smith-Stewart, and Ann Temkin, (Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture).
Alanna Heiss | Carol Heiss | Alanna Nash | Stella Heiß | ''Snow White'' Carol Heiss and ''Prince Charming'' Edson Stroll | Nancy Heiss | Josef Heiß | Alfred "Fredi" Heiß |