Posters inexpensively printed on offset presses have always been popular with art enthusiasts. Most of these posters were created by galleries and museums to advertise exhibitions. Some, on the other hand, were designed specifically to be sold in museum shops and poster stores as an affordable alternative to signed original prints. Artists also took to experimenting with these inexpensive multiples.
Gallery 98 features below some posters that we have recently added to our inventory. You can find more in our special poster section.
John Baldessari: Pictures & Scripts, 2015
John Baldessari, Pictures & Scripts, Marian Goodman Gallery, Folded Poster, 2015. Conceptual artist John Baldessari began to explore the relationship between words and pictures back in the 1960s. Here, in a late career exhibition at the prestigious Marian Goodman Gallery, he creates fictional movie scripts that contextualize found images in unexpected ways.
Folded Poster
Size: 23 x 35
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Joe Goode & Ed Ruscha: Exhibition in Austin, Texas, 1977
Joe Goode & Ed Ruscha, Drawings, Laguna Gloria Art Museum (Texas), Folded Poster, 1977. Joe Goode and Ed Ruscha were both part of the Los Angeles art scene and associated with California pop art. They were also both from Oklahoma, which possibly explains why the two were grouped in this museum exhibition in nearby Austin, Texas.
Folded Poster
Size: 19 x 25 inches
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Lawrence Weiner for the Artist Folio Point d’Ironie, 1998
Sheet one (front)
Sheet one (back)
Sheet two (front)
Sheet two (back)
Lawrence Weiner, Two Folded Double-Sided Sheets made for Agnés B’s Point d’Ironie (No. 6), artist magazine, 1998. The publication, a free-form folio Point d’ironie was created to provide individual artists with the opportunity to create a work of art without restrictions. The publisher was French fashion designer agnès b. and the artists were selected by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. For his folio, conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner (1942 – 2021) provided the following text: WHEN & IF AN OBJECT IS WHAT IT IS & NOT A METAPHOR FOR SOMETHING ELSE THIS OBJECT HAVING ARRIVED AT THE FACT IS NOT OBLIGATED IN ANY WAY TO TAKE A GIVEN DIRECTION.
Two Double-Sided Sheets
Size: 17 x 24 inches
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Feral Diagram: Graffiti and Street Art, 2011
Detail
Graffiti and Street Art, Feral Diagram 2.0 by Daniel Feral, Poster, 2011. This diagram strives to contextualize Graffiti and Street Art within the mainstream of art history. It was inspired by the 75th Anniversary of Museum of Modern Art director Alfred Barr’s famous diagram of Cubism and Abstract Art.
Poster
Size: 24 x 36 inches
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Death by Gun, 1990
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun), Poster, 1990. 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.”
Poster
Size: 33 x 45 inches
