Editions, multiples, and small-scale works by Paula Cooper Gallery artists and more.
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Editions, multiples, and small-scale works by Paula Cooper Gallery artists and more.
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Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveiros
Notes: 2005, 2005
4 offset lithographs with cover page and colophon
each sheet: 13 3/4 x 11 in. (34.9 x 27.9 cm)
frame: 23 3/4 x 20 5/8 in. (60.3 x 52.4 cm)
Edition AP of 50 + 1 AP
Printed by Solo Impression; published by Robert A. Bangiola and MATA
$3,000
The print portfolio Notes: 2005 was published in October 2005 by the group MATA (Music at the Anthology) to benefit its Annual Young Composer’s Festival held at Paula Cooper Gallery. The portfolio consists of a cover page, colophon, and four one-page compositions on the theme of MATA by Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, and Pauline Oliveros, respectively titled: MATA in MOUNTAINS, MATA, MATA Chant, and MATA--This Time--ATAM.
Richard Artschwager
Locations, 1969
Formica on wood with screenprinted plexiglas & 5 blps made of wood, glass, plexiglas and rubberized horsehair with Formica
box: 15 x 10 3/4 x 5 in. (38.1 x 27.3 x 12.7 cm)
Edition 35 of 90
$22,000
Locations represents a material and textural exploration of the oval shape known as a "blp"—a conceptual focal point Artschwager repeatedly returned to throughout his career. Neither sculpture nor painting, this assemblage of hanging forms and frames evades classification, deliberately failing to locate itself in terms of genre despite its title.
Tauba Auerbach
[2,3], 2011
paper, ink, binder's board, glue, fabric, silkscreen
closed: 20 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (52.7 x 41.9 x 11.4 cm)
open: dimensions variable
Edition 678 of 1000, 85 AP
$5,000
Auerbach's oversized pop-up book features six die-cut paper sculptures that unfold into elaborate, brightly colored structures. Each takes its cue from a different geometric form including the pyramid, sphere, ziggurat, octagonal bipyramid (gem), arc, and möbius-strip. Housed in a specially designed slipcase, the project stands as an astonishing art-object, part bookwork and part sculpture, and represents an advance in the field of pop-up technology.
Jennifer Bartlett
Air: 24 Hours (6 p.m., 5 p.m., 5 a.m.), 1994
suite of 3 etchings: sugarlift-aquatint, drypoint and scraping on Twinrocker handmade paper
image: 17 x 17 in. (43.2 x 43.2 cm)
sheet: 19 x 19 in. (48.3 x 48.3 cm)
Edition PP 1 of 65 + 9 AP + 2 PP
Printed by Branstead Studio; published by Branstead Studio and Paula Cooper Gallery
signed and dated, bottom right: "J. Bartlett '94"; numbered bottom left
$4,500
Air: 24 Hours documents the passage of time, depicting a different area of the artist’s home and studio in Manhattan once every hour over the course of a single day. Following a set of self-imposed rules, the three pages offered here (6 p.m., 5 p.m., 5 a.m.) share an underlying grid-based structure. Throughout the series, Bartlett makes public some of these most personal aspects of her daily life while retaining a sense of ironic distance and mysterious inaccessibility.
Jonathan Borofsky
Object of Magic, 1989
screenprint and woodcut in black and tan on Arches wove paper
47 x 60 in. (119.4 x 152.4 cm)
Edition 17 of 18
Published by Gemini G.E.L.
$8,000
Borofsky came to prominence in the New York art world of the mid-1970s, “hitting the stagnant art scene […] like a blast of crazy, fresh air” with his highly personal style emphasizing the emotive and fantastical recesses of human consciousness. In Object of Magic, he employs text as imagery—a recurring technique used by the artist—to contemplate the nature of the universe and the philosophical and psychological values inherent in the human spirit.
Jonathan Borofsky
Untitled at 7,857,263, 1995
watercolor and pencil on paper
image: 8 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. (21 x 28.9 cm)
frame: 15 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 1 in. (38.7 x 47 x 2.5 cm)
signed and dated recto, bottom right: "Jonathan Borofsky 1995"
$8,000
In 1968 Borofsky began a daily practice of writing numbers in succession linearly on paper for several hours every day. Moving from one to infinity, he continued the ritual for years until he began to make sketches and other works of art, using the number he had reached that day as his signature: “For me, numbers are like God. They connect us all together in a way nothing else does. Like magic.”
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
the Curve poster, 2010
lambda print
25.6 x 25.6 in. (65 x 65 cm)
Edition 49 of 100
Printed by the Barbican, London
signed and numbered
$100
This limited-edition print was produced to commemorate Boursier-Mougenot’s exhibition from here to ear at the Curve Gallery in London’s Barbican Centre in 2010. As one of the centre’s most popular installations to date, the walk-through exhibition transformed the space into a living soundscape through the actions of 40 zebra finches—who perched, fed, and nested among discretely placed musical equipment.
Sophie Calle
Red Shoe, 2000
iris print on cream Arche paper
36 1/4 x 26 in. (92.1 x 66 cm)
framed: 39 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1 1/2 in (100.3 x 74.9 x 3.8 cm)
Edition 22 of 125 (59 produced)
Published by Eyestorm, London
signed verso: "S. Calle"
SOLD
"Amelie and I were eleven years old. We had a habit of stealing from department stores on Thursday afternoons. We did this for one year. When her mother began to suspect, in order to frighten us, she said that a policeman had spotted us […] Our last robbery had been a pair of red shoes too big for us to wear. Amelie kept the right shoe, and I kept the left.” – The full version of Calle's personal anecdote is transcribed beneath a related image.
Beatrice Caracciolo
Attraversare il Fuoco (Fuoco Wood Box), 2013
7 digital prints, woodcut, and printed pages in wooden box
box: 9 x 10 5/8 x 1 in. (22.9 x 27 x 2.5 cm)
Edition 10 of 50
Printed by Atelier Estampe Photographique and Atelier Martin Garanger, Paris
signed and numbered on last printed page; numbered on the box
$875
Working from photographs that she transforms through a process in several stages, Caracciolo creates black and white images on the theme of Fire. Before photographing the fires, the artist spends long hours admiring them, seated before the fireplace. With hypnotic fascination, she fixes her gaze on the tumultuous flames before capturing them on film.
Sarah Charlesworth
Red Bowls (small), 2005
cibachrome with lacquered wood frame
20 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (52.1 x 39.4 x 2.9 cm)
Edition 9 of 25
$10,000
This Cibachrome print from Charlesworth’s 2005 Simple Text series uses the photographic field as a ritual or meditative space. Employing simple materials and objects staged as offerings, the series pays homage to the physical properties of art and celebrate the act of becoming.
Matias Faldbakken
Flat Box Lithography #03, 2014
lithograph
paper: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Edition 6 of 12
signed, dated, numbered bottom recto
$3,500
Derived from a series of works Faldbakken exhibited at Paula Cooper Gallery in 2014, the Box lithographs interrogate the boundary between the precious, quasi-sacred quality of the art object and the disposable yet nostalgic nature of cardboard packing boxes. The works also speak to the ideas of circulation at play in Faldbakken’s “container works”—cans, jugs, lockers, sacks, bags, and other generic vessels for storage and transport that potentially contain goods of some sort. These flattened packing boxes evolved out of an encounter with a Joseph Beuys work consisting of a framed olive oil box.
Ja’Tovia Gary and No Sesso
THE GIVERNY SUITE, 2020
cotton long sleeve t-shirt
white/black
S/M/L/XL
$60
Original shirts designed by Ja’Tovia Gary and the LA-based fashion brand No Sesso to celebrate Gary’s installation The GIVERNY SUITE. 40% of the proceeds go to the non-profit Assata's Daughters, a Black woman-led, young person-directed organization rooted in the Black Radical Tradition. AD organizes young Black people in Chicago by providing them with political education, leadership development, mentorship, and revolutionary services. Learn more about Assata's Daughters at www.assatasdaughters.org
Liz Glynn
Untitled Wall Fragment (Open House), 2017
cast concrete
12 x 9 x 2 1/2 in. (30.5 x 22.9 x 6.4 cm)
Edition 21 of 27, 3 APs
$2,500
Glynn’s major public commission titled Open House transformed a plaza in Central Park into an open-air ballroom—like those privately owned by New York City’s wealthy elite at the turn of the 20th century. The artist's lavish objects evoked the historic homes, but with a twist—her works featured sculpted additions and were cast in concrete, a modern populist material, underscoring concerns of growing socio-economic divides.
Liz Glynn
Untitled Figure Study LXXVI, 2016
terracotta
4 x 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (10.2 x 9.5 x 7 cm)
$800
Using a visceral and immediate approach to molding clay, Glynn models her Figure Studies on masterworks and archetypal compositions from art history. The resulting objects bear evidence of the artist’s hand—pinched and poked to emphasize certain expressive aspects of the improvised form.
Robert Gober
Untitled, 1993-94
photolithography on archival (French Dur-O-Tone) paper
11 1/4 x 12 in. (28.6 x 30.5 cm)
framed: 13 x 13 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (5.1 x 5.2 x 0.5 cm)
Edition 53 of 75 + 10 AP
Published by the artist
signed and dated under fold: "R. Gober '93-4"
SOLD
Gober’s works replicate everyday objects and images with an eerie precision and, usually, a detail or two that is just a little bit off—drawing out difficult childhood memories and an unease with the domestic rituals and lingering puritanical attitudes of the suburban middle class. He extended his trompe l'oeil methods into printmaking by fashioning several editions of photolithographs that look just like newspaper pages. Here, Gober mocks up a faux supermarket circular advertising page featuring a whole pig.
Robert Gober/Joyce Carol Oates
Heat, 1989
two 40-page leather-bound books with metal clasps in cloth box
box: 9 1/8 x 13 1/8 x 2 in. (23.2 x 33.3 x 5.1 cm)
each book: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (21 x 14.6 x 3.2 cm)
Edition 17 of 140
Published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; printed by Derriere L'Etoile Studios, New York
signed by the artist and author
$3,500
The artist’s book Heat is a collaboration between the artist Robert Gober and the writer Joyce Carol Oates, who wrote this short story about the life and premature death of a pair of twins in a small American town. Gober designed the two locked diaries, which include images inspired by the text with printed endpapers created by Gober featuring a pattern of male and female genitals. He produced a wallpaper from the pattern the same year, and a suite of prints two years later.
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, circa 2000-2013
c-print
image: 4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm)
frame: 13 x 14 1/2 in. (33 x 36.8 cm)
Edition 1 of 2, 1 APs
$7,500
In his photographic works, Grosvenor translates his distinct formal vocabulary into two-dimensional snapshots of everyday life. The intimate images present familiar objects in striking and often comical arrangements. Toting flattened colors, silhouetted subjects and cropped perspectives, they offer an alternate reality that is parallel to ours, yet oddly alien and abstruse.
Hans Haacke
Canal @ Hudson (from Proposal for poster commemorating 9/11 with photographs of posters produced by Creative Time 6 months after attack, on approximately 100 media boards in Manhattan), 2001 - 2002
c-print
10 3/8 x 15 inches (26.4 x 38.1 cm)
Edition AP1 of 3, + 2 AP
$5,000
For his 2002 poster project commemorating the attack on the World Trade Center, Haacke produced an edition of monochrome white posters from which the silhouettes of the Twin Towers had been cut out. These were glued onto poster walls around New York City so that the underlying printed matter—often ads for shows, films or records—remained partly visible in the negative volumes.
Michael Hurson
Gravure de Crayon, 1987
Color aquatint, spitbite, scraping and burnishing on paper
20 x 17 inches (50.8 x 43.2 cm)
Edition 25 of 35
Published by Joe Fawbush Editions, New York; printed by Jennifer Melby Editions, New York
$1,200
Hurson’s Gravure de Crayon is emblematic of the artist’s signature images of anthropomorphized inanimate objects. An edition of this work in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York was recently exhibited in "Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman—The Shape of Shape," a collection installation celebrating the reopening of the museum in October 2019.
Louise Lawler
Mouse on a Tight Rope, 2002
black & white photograph
paper: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Edition 59 of 100
signed, dated, and numbered on verso
$2,000
Lawler’s black-and-white photograph captures an installation by Maurizio Cattelan in the entrance of Paula Cooper Gallery featuring a mouse dangling from a tightrope. Printed on fiber-based paper, the work is intended for placement in the viewer/collector’s own library. Like much of Lawler’s work, the piece aims to situate its content directly in the context in which it is shown.
Julian Lethbridge
untitled, 2000
toner in solvent on paper
paper: 22 1/2 x 32 1/2 in. (57.2 x 82.6 cm)
frame: 22 1/2 x 33 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (57.2 x 84.5 x 3.8 cm)
signed and dated at bottom right: "Julian Lethbridge '00"
$8,000
Lethbridge’s abstract vocabulary often originates from random or naturally occurring patterns, such as shattered glass or a spider’s web. Using layers of overlapping strokes, Lethbridge builds multifaceted surfaces that expose the form and process of their underlying repetitions.
Sol LeWitt
Schematic Drawing for Muybridge II (from Artists and Photographs Portfolio), 1970
black and white offset lithograph in envelope
paper: 5 1/8 x 12 3/8 in. (14 x 31.8 cm)
envelope: 5 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (13 x 31.4 cm)
Edition of 1200 (200 produced)
Published by Multiples, Inc., New York
$400
Printed in a horizontal line on a single rectangular card, the small, cropped, circular, black-and-white photos offer a visual spatial progression. The photograph on the far left presents a long, angled view of a nude female standing in a nondescript darkened room. The subsequent photos capture the camera moving closer to the subject, narrowing the frame with each stop until the final photo on the far right is an extreme close-up of the woman's navel. Interestingly, LeWitt designed this piece to be viewed directionally, encasing it in an envelope with an opening on the right vertical edge, so the viewer encounters the extreme close-up first. As the card withdraws from the envelope, each photo is evidence of the camera moving backward through space, thus visually describing more, not less, of the static female subject.
Liz Magic Laser
Disco Globe, 2013
mirrored glass, black glass, plastic core, chain and rotating motor
16 x 16 x 16 in. (40.64 x 40.64 x 40.64 cm)
Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP
$5,000
The artist’s performance and video installation Absolute Event was presented at Paula Cooper Gallery in 2013, for which two actors performed a dialogue of a political strategist coaching a politician from behind the scenes of a situation room. The gallery was transformed into a control room and a situation room, incorporating elements from a disco nightclub including this mirrored disco ball altered to look like a globe.
Christian Marclay
New York, 2004
c-print
image: 11 x 8 1/4 in. (27.9 x 21 cm)
sheet: 14 x 11 1/4 in. (35.6 x 28.6 cm)
Edition 2 of 5, 2 AP
signed, titled and dated verso
$6,000
Marclay’s photographs from international cities depict objects, text, and metaphors for sound—underscoring the often-overlooked aural symphony of everyday life.
Justin Matherly
Untitled (Sunrise/Sunset), 2015
inkjet monoprint on canvas, clear urethane rubber, grommets, acrylic paint, crystal clear UV spray, PVA
37 3/4 x 31 3/8 in. (95.9 x 79.7 cm)
$9,000
Created by transferring wet ink from transparencies onto paper, Matherly’s smudged monoprint reduces a landscape photograph to blurry abstraction.
Kazuko Miyamoto
Lines From Semicircle, 2009
silkscreen print
27 1/4 x 25 3/8 in. (69.2 x 64.5 cm)
frame: 30 1/4 x 28 1/2 in. (.6 x 72.4 cm)
Edition 25 of 25
signed, titled, dated, numbered
$4,000
Miyamoto is a preeminent feminist figure of minimalism, and a pioneer of a new and radically warm brand of rigorous abstraction, introducing handmade, irregular, and intimate elements that both modulated the movement’s unforgiving visual language and advanced it, by critique.
Claes Oldenburg
Multiples in Retrospect 1964-1990 with The Soap at Baton Rouge, 1990
160 page book, cast resin, vinyl filled with aluminum silicate, serigraph on acetate sheet
soap: 3/4 x 4 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (1.9 x 12.1 x 7 cm)
serigraph on acetate sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
case: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
Edition 204 of 250 + 30 AP
Published by Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
signed and numbered
$2,400
Oldenburg: “When Carl Solway called me in May 1972 and asked if I would be interested in proposing a large-scale work for Cincinnati, he mentioned that partial funding for such a work might be sought from the Procter & Gamble Corporation, whose world headquarters are in that city. The most familiar product of that company is the bar of pure white soap [with] its embossed slogan, ‘lt floats.’ [...] I proposed to Carl that a colossal soap be made by Procter & Gamble and launched in [the Ohio River in] Cincinnati with appropriate ceremony. It would thereafter float down the river, stopping at towns along the way.” As the colossal soap moved from town to town, it would dissolve and grow smaller. At Cairo, Illinois, the now somewhat-less-than-colossal soap would slip into the Mississippi. From there on, it would become more and more difficult to gather people to celebrate the visit of the soap. By the time the soap reached Baton Rouge, it would be the right size for a multiple.
Paul Pfeiffer
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse #20, 21, 22, 2006
set of 3 color inkjet prints
image, each: 4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm)
overall: 13 x 6 1/4 in. (33 x 15.9 cm)
Edition 8 of 30 + 5 AP + 5 PP + 1 BP
Published by BOMB magazine; printed at Jon Cone Studio
editioned, signed and dated recto
$3,600
Using images from the NBA archive, Pfeiffer digitally erases all but one of the players as well as all contextual details including text, lines on the court, and signifiers on the player’s jersey. The resulting image—alluring yet eerie—recasts the phenomenon of spectacle to uncover its psychological, cultural, and racial underpinning.
Eliot Porter
Iceland, 1972
dye transfer print mounted on museum board
paper: 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (20.6 x 26.7 cm)
board: 15 x 17 1/2 in. (38.1 x 44.5 cm)
stamped verso
$9,500
A series of lush color photographs taken by Porter during his extensive travels through Iceland, these exquisitely rendered images have the lyrical power associated with Porter’s photography.
Eliot Porter
Wind Eroded Volcanic Ash - Kleifarvatn, from the portfolio "Portfolio II Iceland", 1972
dye transfer print mounted on museum board
paper: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (26.7 x 21.6 cm)
board: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
$7,200
A series of lush color photographs taken by Porter during his extensive travels through Iceland, these exquisitely rendered images have the lyrical power associated with Porter’s photography.
Joel Shapiro
Untitled (Green), 1979-1980
lithograph on Arches Cover printed in green from an aluminum plate
22 x 29 3/4 in (55.9 x 75.6 cm)
framed: 29 1/2 x 37 1/4 x 1 1/4 in (74.9 x 94.6 x 3.2 cm)
Edition 21 of 30 + 10 AP + 3 PP
Printed by Maurice Sanchez & Arnold Brooks, Derrière L'Étoile Studios, New York
$3,000
Exploring the effect of color on form, Shapiro produces compositions on paper, including collages and prints. He prefers colors that have a strong graphic identity, such as red, blue, and green, and his choices generate color-as-color, a structural color that readily distinguishes one element from another.
Robert Smithson
Asphalt Rundown, 1969
poster
40 x 27 1/2 in. (101.6 x 69.9 cm)
Published by Galleria L'Attico, Rome
unsigned and unnumbered
edition size unknown
SOLD
An exhibition poster designed by Smithson for his storied October 1969 installation in a quarry outside Rome. The first of Smithson’s major outdoor earthworks intended to exist exclusively outside, Asphalt Rundown is a demonstration of what he called the “crystalline structure of time.” Smithson poured a truckload of hot asphalt down a steep embankment, which cooled and hardened as it fell. The resulting sculpture can be seen as time frozen, mid-flow, or as yet another sedimentary layer in the infinite accumulation of time.
Kelley Walker
Andy Warhol and Sonny Liston fly on Braniff. (When you got it-flaunt it), 2006
color poster
40 x 28 inches (101.6 x 71.1 cm)
unlimited edition
$50
This digitized screenprint appropriates an image from the notorious 1967 ad campaign by George Lois for the now defunct Braniff Airlines.
Dan Walsh
Half Circle Full, 2019
acrylic on Rives de Lin paper, 32 pages
8 5/8 x 9 in. (21.9 x 22.9 cm)
Edition 10 of 10, + 3 APs
initialed and dated on back
$3,500
Walsh’s practice of bookmaking marks time and entertains the multiplicity of possibilities, in a performative and meditative manner. Here the form of a circle is repeated in various tones and brush applications.
Dan Walsh and Majorie Welish
Between Sincerity and Irony, 2019
silkscreen on (five sheets of) Colorplan paper, handsewn in a double accordion fold, daveyboard slipcase
9 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (24.1 x 24.8 cm)
Edition 49 of 50, 1 AP
$1,500
A collaboration by Marjorie Welish and Dan Walsh, Between Sincerity and Irony is an accordion structured book in which folds develop complex interactions between this phased art dialogue. One first sees Walsh’s circles expanding to lozenges, empty, then full. Underneath and exposed is a disjunctive image by Welish wherein the same yellow appearing in two bands samples two very differing semantics. But that is only the beginning of the adventure as the book unfolds variously.
Bing Wright
Silver Prints (for O'Sullivan), 2007
wax and silver leaf on silver print mounted on museum board
23 1/4 x 19 1/5 in. (59.1 x 48.8 cm)
framed: 34 x 30 in. (86.4 x 76.2 cm)
unique
stamped and signed verso
$9,500
In his Silver Prints, Wright pays tribute to the alchemical magic and vital/historic role of silver in the process of photographic printing: “I photographed silver leaf on glass, often allowing a shadow to be cast, and when the ‘silver print’ was still wet fresh out of the bath I randomly dropped pieces of silver leaf that adhered and became part of the picture plane of the photograph itself. I then allowed the adhered silver to age and color to various degrees before ultimately sealing the tarnishing process with a thin wax coat, a traditional protective material used since the nineteenth century. I entitled the resulting images simply ‘Silver Prints’ and dedicated them individually to various nineteenth-century masters of the medium.”
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