Showing is a series of 40 reproductions of exhibition advertisements from the late 60's to the early 80's. All aspects of the compositions are presented as-found, except the gallery information has been digitally omitted.
The resulting works attain a slightly morbid undertone. No longer functioning properly as advertising or documentation, they can be read as neglected manifestations of the art-practice of the artists they depict. In specific instances the advertisements bear an awkward resemblance to the work of the artists in question, but more substantially the series as a whole plays upon the issues and aesthetics of the periods and movements the artists are themselves most identified with.
Properly estranged the advertisements mime a train of thinking which begins in high modernism and runs through pop, minimalism, and conceptual art without properly belonging to any one. In a limited sense they can be considered as appropriation, but are more accurately works of attribution toward slightly exaggerated questions about the location of art in culture and memory.
