October 29, 2013

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You are receiving this exclusive notice because we know you to be a loyal and enthusiastic patron of the arts who may have a keen interest in the special offer we are bringing to your attention today.

As Hallwalls approaches its 40th year anniversary, we are dipping back into our immensely storied B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s past and reconnecting with a project initiated, though never completed, by two of our illustrious founders, and Charles Clough. In 1976, Charlie carved from wood and Robert cast M a t t h e w E . R yan, President in aluminum a thunderbolt—a prototype for a fundraising edition. Meg Knowles, Vice President J o s e p h L o mb a r d o , T r e a s u r e r As Charlie has explained: C a i t l i n C r o w e l l , S e c r e t a r y A l y s s a R a b a c h A n t h o n e “In the mid-1970s I was thinking about Magritte and archetypal symbolic T uona M. Batchelor images and the thunderbolt popped up. I’m not sure where I found the reference to E l i z a b e t h C a r l s o n Vulcan making thunderbolts for Jupiter, but it seemed to segue into a situation of C é s a r C e d a n o B e t s y F r a z e r us Hallwallsers making something for the ‘gods of further funding’ to help secure J e n n i f e r G o t t d i e n e r Hallwalls’ future.” G e o r g e t t e H a s i o t i s C h r i s H a w l e y A few years ago, Charlie visited our office in Babeville with original bolt in-hand and bequeathed C arley Jean H i l l the work to us, with the encouragement to fulfill the sculpture’s original mission. In the spirit of T o m H o l t Vulcan, Longo, Sherman, and Clough, we are inviting you to become one of our gods of further John Jennings funding and place your order today for a piece of our history and a special limited edition artwork. E l i z a b e t h L i c a t a J u s t i n R e a d Please note that you are receiving this notice as part of a very select preferred list of collectors and B e t h s M i t h patrons—prior to the edition being made public. You have until December 1, 2013 to secure your M a k i T a n i g a k i personal thunderbolt.

Please also note that the bolt is a limited edition of 25. Half of the purchase price confirms your editions co mm i t t e e order, the remainder to be paid upon delivery. j o h n m a s s i e r Please see the attached pdf for more specific information about the work and ordering yours. j oanna gilles p i e g e r a l d C . m e a d j r . We know you share our passion for the arts and contemporary culture. We ask that you consider r o b ert scalise the notion of one our founders and become one of our gods of further funding. a l y s s a r a b ach-anthone r o b e r t D . b i e l e c k i The bling of the gods comes in the form of a bolt. Order yours today.

Sincerely,

John Massier Charles Clough Edmund Cardoni Visual Arts Curator Hallwalls Founder Executive Director h a l l w a l l s c o n t e MP o r a r y a r t s c e n t e r 3 4 1 d e l a w a r e A V e n u e B u f f a l o , n y 1 4 2 0 2 716.854.1694 w w w . h a l l w a l l s . o r g EXCLUSIVEEXCLUSIVE COLLECTORCOLLECTOR OPPORTUNITY:OPPORTUNITY: HALLWALLSHALLWALLS SPECIALSPECIAL EDITIONEDITION

WHAT IT IS Charles Clough (American, born 1951) In 1976 when Charles Clough and Robert Longo were Robert Longo (American, born 1953) directing Hallwalls they were also working in adjacent studios, exploring symbolic imagery. Clough carved a Prototype for a Fundraiser for Hallwalls, 1976/2013 thunderbolt and Longo cast two copies in bronze and one in cast aluminum aluminum. Only the aluminum version represents the full 39 x 5 x 1 inches length of the wooden original. They imagined an edition of thunderbolts to be sold to raise funds for Hallwalls. Thirty- $2,500 seven years later this intention is being fulfilled with a Edition of 25 beautiful cast aluminum edition, 39 inches long, weighing Signed (engraved) and numbered in at less than 2 lbs. The work will arrive in a grey solid core acid-free box, with polyetheyne foam insert, ideally suited for storage, shipping, or gifting. The back of the work will include engraved signatures from Charles Clough and Robert Longo, as well as the engraved edition number.

RECENTLY EXHIBITED The original bolt was prominently exhibited as part of the major exhibition Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant- garde in the 1970s at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, March 30 to July 8, 2012.

HOW CAN I BUY ONE? Orders can be placed in person at Hallwalls or over the phone with Hallwalls at 716-854-1694. HALF of the purchase price must be paid at the time of ordering to CONFIRM AND HOLD your copy of the edition. The remaining balance must be paid prior to receipt of the work. Price does not include crating, shipping, or installation.

WHEN CAN I BUY ONE? If you are reading this informational sheet, you may order one RIGHT NOW. Phone us at 716.854.1694.

IS THERE A TIME LIMIT? YES! This is a SPECIAL ADVANCE OFFERING, forwarded to a select list of collectors and patrons. After December 1, 2013, news of this edition will go public and be made widely available to the larger art-buying world. “In the mid-1970s I was thinking about Magritte and archetypal symbolic images and the thunderbolt popped up. I’m not sure where I found the reference to HOW CAN I DISPLAY IT? Vulcan making thunderbolts for Jupiter, but it seemed As a god of future funding, you should display your bolt in to segue into a situation of us Hallwallsers making the manner that best expresses your dynamic and generous self. In the image here, the bolt is hanging on two small something for the ‘gods of further funding’ nails. It can also rest on a flat surface. It works horizontally, to help secure Hallwalls’ future.” vertically, or diagonally. It could also be framed. Should you be uncertain about how to install the work, personnel — Charles Clough from Hallwalls will be happy to assist you.

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Robert Longo

Robert Longo was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his BFA from Buffalo State, State University of New York in 1975. He is a founding artist of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY where he had his first solo exhibition in 1976 entitled, Robert Longo: Artful Dodger. Longo has had numerous retrospective exhibitions, including Robert Longo: 1979-2009 at the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice and the Berardo Museum Collection, Lisbon (2009-2010), the Hamburger Kunstverein and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (1991); the Menil Collection in Houston (1988); Robert Longo: 1976-1989 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (1989). Longo’s voluminous group exhibitions include Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970’s at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (2012), The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009), That Was Then…This Is Now at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (2008), Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007), Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance at Tate Liverpool (2003), Postmodern Americans at the Menil Collection, Houston (2001), Documenta (1987 and 1982); the Whitney Biennial (2004 and 1983); and the Venice Biennale (1997). Robert Longo was the recipient of the Goslar Kaiserring in 2005. Robert Longo is represented by Metro Pictures in New York City, Galerie Hans Mayer in Düsseldorf, Germany, and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, France. He is a co-founder and member of the band X PATSYS (with Barbara Sukowa, Jon Kessler, Anthony Coleman, Jonathan Kane, Knox Chandler and Ernest Brooks).

Museums and Public Collections

The Albertina, Vienna, Austria Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Art Institute of Chicago Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles Guggenheim Museum, New York High Museum, Atlanta The Jewish Museum, New York Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art Ludwig-Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany Menil Collection, Houston Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France Museum of Modern Art, New York Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Australia Saatchi Collection, London Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Tate Gallery, London Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota HALLWALLSHALLWALLS Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York EDITIONSEDITIONS Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Charles Clough

Charles Clough was born in Buffalo in 1951. He attended Pratt Institute, Ontario College of Art, the University at Buffalo, and New York University. In 1971, Clough established his studio at the Ashford Hollow Foundation’s 30 Essex Street, and in 1974, co-founded Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY with Robert Longo and . He moved his studio to New York in 1978, then to Westerly, RI in 1999, and in 2013 back to Buffalo. His work has been exhibited in over sixty solo and over one hundred and fifty group exhibitions. Solo exhibitions include Charlie Clough: Recent Paintings at the David Findlay, Jr. Gallery, New York (2013), a forty-year retrospective, The Way to Clufffalo at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery (2012), Charles Clough: Degrees of Harmony, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls (2011), White Columns, New York (2011), Newport Art Museum (2003), Von Lintel Gallery, New York (2002), the Brooklyn Museum (1994), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo (1991), American Fine Arts Co., New York (1990), and the Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (1985) among others. Clough’s numerous group exhibitions include twenty-four exhibitions of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection across the U.S., most recently in The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (2013), Many Things Placed Here and There: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (2013), Dorothy and Herb Vogel: Fifty Works for Fifty States, The Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington (2013), and Dorothy and Herb Vogel: Fifty Works for Fifty States, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2013). Other important group exhibitions include Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970’s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (2012), The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009), Surface Matter: Collage from the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (2007), The Choice, Exit Art/The First World, New York (1998), The Agency of Meaning, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo (1998), and Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 1975-95, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo (1995). Clough has published more than seventy-five artist books and has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Painting Fellowships (1982 and 1989), a Graphic Arts Fellowship form the New York State Council on the Arts (1983), a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2009), and an Adolphe and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant (2013). Clough is featured in seventy museum collections, and as part of the Dorothy & Herbert Vogel Collection’s Fifty Works for Fifty States gift, at least one museum in all fifty states.

Selected Museums and Public Collections Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE Eastman House, Rochester, NY Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HW Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH HALLWALLSHALLWALLS Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC EDITIONSEDITIONS Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Milwaukee, Art Museum, Milwaukee, WS Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York, Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC New Mexico Museum of Art, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma, OK Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC South Dakota Art Museum, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS University Art Collections, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AL University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL UB Art Galleries, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Wake Forest University Art Museum, Wake Forest, NC Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

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