Arleen Schloss’ Work

For over the past 40 years Arleen Schloss has amassed an amazing array of archival material, including films, video, songs and documents.

Below is a sample of her archives.

1) In 1986 Arleen performed a 24-hour interactive media opera at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.  Ars Electronica is designed to showcase the migration of art and technology.  Before the Internet age, this type of performance was considered ahead of its time.

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2) From 1979 to 1995 Arleen opened up her loft A’s in New York’s Lower East Side to performers, artists, musicians, computer artists, cyber performers and filmmakers. A’s quickly became part of the all important New York Art Loft Scene. An experimental hub of creativity, many well-known artists and performers came through there.

Posters and invitations from A’s.

3) Paintings and other framed work

After graduating from college, Arleen began to exhibit her art work in galleries in New York City. In 1970 the prestigious Aldrich Museum, a museum that identifies and presents the best of the world’

s contemporary art, selected two of her works for its collection.

Arleen started her art career as a painter in the 1960s and experimented with materials other than paint, including wheat, cotton and fiber.  Below is a selection of her framed work from the 1960s and 1970s.

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4) Performance Art

During the 1970s to mid 1990s, Arleen became a successful performance artist. In the 1970s museums began to showcase what was then a new and cutting edge art form. In 1978, Arleen became one of a handful of artists selected by the Museum of Modern Art to perform in their space. In addition in 1986, Arleen performed a 24-hour media opera at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.

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