Posters that are inexpensively printed on offset presses have always been a popular form of art ephemera. Most of these posters were created by galleries and museums to advertise exhibitions. Some were designed specifically to be sold in museum shops and poster stores as an affordable alternative to signed, original prints. Others, were created by artists as a way to produce inexpensive multiples. You’ll find below a selection of particularly interesting posters currently available at Gallery 98.
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David Hockney, View of Hotel Well, from the Exhibition “Moving Focus Prints from Tyler Graphics,” Tate Gallery, 1986
David Hockney, View of Hotel Well, Double-Sided Folded Poster for the Exhibition “David Hockney: Moving Focus Prints from Tyler Graphics,” Tate Gallery (London), 1986. Size: 32 x 22 inches — Available
David Hockney (1937 – 2026) was always experimenting with new ideas. This poster, for an exhibition at the Tate, featured large, color lithographs created in collaboration with master-printer Kenneth Tyler. Each print combined multiple viewpoints, and incorporated Tyler’s innovative use of transparent mylar sheets as a way to achieve a sense of layered space.
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Louise Bourgeois, Antony: Return to River Bièvre, Published by Agnes B, 1999
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Louise Bourgeois, Antony: Return to River Bièvre, Double-Sided Poster-Sized Art Periodical, Published by Agnes B. & Hans-Ulrich Obrist, 1999. Size: 24 x 17 inches each — Available
Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) revisits the house where she grew up with a series of evocative, slightly blurred, photographs. Technically, this is not a poster but rather, two double-sided, poster-sized sheets meant to be folded together like a newspaper. It is one in a series of similarly designed art periodicals published by the fashion designer Agnes B, in conjunction with the art curator and critic Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Others in this series of periodicals by artists include: Damien Hirst, Christian Boltanski, Lawrence Weiner
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John Baldessari: Pictures & Scripts, Marian Goodman Gallery, 2015
John Baldessari, Pictures & Scripts, Marian Goodman Gallery, Folded Poster, 2015. Size: 23 x 35 inches — Available
Conceptual artist John Baldessari (1931 – 2020) began to explore the relationship between words and pictures back in the 1960s. Here, in a late career exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery, he creates fictional movie scripts that contextualize found images in unexpected ways.
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Duncan Hannah, Ring Around the Rosie, Illinois State University, 1990
Duncan Hannah, Ring Around the Rosie (1989), University Galleries of Illinois State University, SIGNED Folded Poster for the Exhibition “Mythic Times,” 1990. Size: 22 x 17 inches — Available
This signed poster by Duncan Hannah (1952 – 2022) was created for his appropriately-titled exhibition “Mythic Times.” Both in terms of their style and subject-matter, Hannah’s paintings look backward in time. His images have a frozen quality that evokes a sense of longing and nostalgia.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Death by Gun, Museum of Modern Art, 1990
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun), Museum of Modern Art, Poster, 1990. Size: 33 x 45 inches —Available
This poster by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957 – 1996) was originally conceived as part of a nine-inch pile of identical posters that gallery goers were free to take. The poster “lists the names of 460 individuals killed by gun in the United States during the week of May 1–7, 1989, cited by name, age, city, and state, with a brief description of the circumstances of their deaths and, in most cases, a photograph of the deceased.”
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