Friday, November 22, 2013

Sheetrock


Sheetrock and wallpaper.

Images of these gallery installations did not appear together. I did not discover them at the same time. Each came from a different show at a different venue set apart by several years.

Haim Steinbach (b. 1944) originally executed panels like these during the first flowering of conceptualism in the 1970s. Since then, he has recreated them for an ever-evolving audience.