Greene Naftali
Exhibition
TONY CONRAD
Ground Floor
The Flicker (30 minutes) screens daily at 12 PM, 2 PM, and 4 PM
Straight and Narrow (10 minutes) screens daily at 11 AM and 3 PM
Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a galvanic figure across multiple strains of the avant-garde. His protean career spanned five decades and resisted authority in all its forms; as Conrad remarked, “the job of an artist is to discover laws to violate that haven’t been made yet.” Best known as a trailblazer in the fields of both drone music and structural film, he also worked in video, performance, painting, installation, public access television, and “paracinema”: experiential works that defied the logic of what the moving image might be.
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Tony Conrad
Flicker Matte, 1974
Kalvar 16mm film stock and microfilm
21 1/2 x 27 1/4 in (55 x 69 cm)
Installation view, Tony Conrad, Greene Naftali, New York, 2026
Tony Conrad
Pickled E.K. 7302-244-0502 #1, March 2006, 2006
16mm film stock preserved in pickling jar with vinegar, vegetables and spices
6 3/4 x 4 x 4 inches (17 x 10 x 10 cm)
Tony Conrad
Pickled E.K. 7302-244-0502 #9, May 2006, 2006
16mm film stock preserved in pickling jar with vinegar, vegetables and spices
6 3/4 x 4 x 4 inches (17 x 10 x 10 cm)
Tony Conrad, Pickled E.K. 7302-244-0502 #1, March 2006, 2006 (detail)
Installation view, Tony Conrad, Greene Naftali, New York, 2026
Tony Conrad, frame speed planning for The Flicker, ca. 1965
Installation view, Tony Conrad, Greene Naftali, New York, 2026
Tony Conrad
Yellow Movie 4/3/73, 1973
Emulsion: Honey beige low lustre enamel, water base, tinted midtone base
Base: Studio white seamless paper
126 1/2 x 107 inches (321 x 272 cm)
Installation view, Tony Conrad, Greene Naftali, New York, 2026
Tony Conrad
Yellow Movie 12/14-15/72, 1972
Emulsion: Citron tinted low lustre enamel, Speedflex
Latex Colorizer, Brooklyn Paint & Varnish Co.
Base: White seamless paper
90 1/2 x 107 inches (230 x 272 cm)
Installation view, Tony Conrad, Greene Naftali, New York, 2026
Tony Conrad
Roast Kalvar, 1974
Roasted 16mm Kalvar film stock
5 x 6 x 9 1/2 inches (13 x 15 x 24 cm)
Tony Conrad
Bowed Film, 1974/2014
16 mm film
Dimensions variable
Installed: 5 1/2 x 5 x 5/8 in (14 x 13 x 2 cm)
Tony Conrad
Deep Fried 7302, 1973
Fried EK 7302 16mm film stock
5 x 4 x 1 in (13 x 10 x 3 cm)
Canister: 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 2 in (19 x 19 x 3 cm)
Tony Conrad, Deep Fried 7302, 1973 (detail)
Installation view, Tony Conrad, Greene Naftali, New York, 2026
Tony Conrad
The Flicker, 1966
16mm, black and white, sound
Tony Conrad, The Flicker, 1966 (stills)
Tony Conrad and Beverly Grant
Straight and Narrow, 1970
16mm, black and white, sound
10 minutes
Tony Conrad and Beverly Grant
Straight and Narrow, 1970 (stills)
Tony Conrad
Loose Connection, 1972/2011
Super 8 to 16 mm/HD video
54 min, 54 sec
Tony Conrad, Loose Connection, 1972/2011 (stills)
