Snapshot

Artist Various artists
Date Aug. 14, 1976
Location Los Angeles
Type Concept

Snapshot, a party at Roger Wong's studio in Los Angeles Aug. 14, 1976, brought together a dozen or so friends of Carp through a collection of photographs, providing to attendees opportunities to explore the private lives of artists and their friends. The party, according to an announcement by Carp, did not constitute an exhibition: "These photographs are not meant to be representational works of art or even 'photographs' as referred to in the aesthetic vernacular. Just snapshots taken for personal, sentimental reasons, with no prior plan to exhibit them as art works." Partiers included Barbara Burden, Marilyn Nix, Charles Christopher Hill, Michael Brewster, Carole Caroompas, Chris Burden, Bryan Hunt, Paula Sweet, Walter Wittel, Alexis Smith, Scott Grieger, Richard Newton, Brad Smith, Roger Wong, Mark Keiserman and Lowell Darling.


Related Projects
In a show sponsored by Carp and hosted by Joel Marshall, Alexis Smith presented an installation on the ceiling of a clean, white room, housing a maximum of two guests per viewing.
Richard Sedivy with the support of Carp exhibited paintings Nov. 18-23, 1977, at 2024 Washington Blvd. in Los Angeles.
In coordination with Future Studio and as an installment of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative, Carp revealed a selection of ephemera documenting performance and media arts by Bob Wilhite, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, Kim Jones, Charles Christopher Hill, Alexis Smith, Richard Newton, Gordon Matta-Clark and Bruce Nauman, among other artists.