Gallery 98’s inventory continues to expand with thousands of new items that arrived just this month. This is way too many items for us to photograph and post, but we keep trying. Those who regularly visit the Gallery 98 website, know that our home-page features a regularly changing, curated, selection of top, new arrivals. Less well known, is that all of the new items added to the Gallery 98 site can be viewed in the order they are posted on our special search page.
This week’s newsletter showcases six recently acquired posters. Some have near iconic stature. Photographer Irving Penn’s collaboration with fashion designer Issey Miyake is celebrated as a distinguished example of fashion photography; Apple’s large bus-stop poster with dancing, silhouette figures was instrumental in the success of the iPod; and Tom Otterness’ The Real World poster marks the debut of a groundbreaking work that redefined the look of public sculpture.
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Ed Ruscha, Industrial Strength, a Collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, 2008
Ed Ruscha, Industrial Strength, The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia), Folded Poster, 2008. Size: 36 x 24 inches — For Sale
This poster by the master of “text art” Ed Raucha is unusual in that it shows only a small fragment of the large tapestry he created in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop. The poster announces the exhibition of Industrial Strength, a work made out of Merino wool, cotton and trevira that measures 23-foot across. Ruscha designed the poster to emphasize the size of the tapestry by using an image that exactly corresponds in size to a detail of the actual tapestry.
Jenny Holzer, Archive, Cheim & Read, 2006
Jenny Holzer, Archive, Cheim & Read, Folded Poster, 2006. Size: 28 x 22 inches — For Sale
Following the events of 9/11, Jenny Holzer began working with government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. For an artist known for her use of words, this series is notable for the censored redactions that hide the words. At first, Holzer exhibited these images by projecting them. For this exhibition, however, she created oil on linen paintings that are permanent images of the “rivalry of ignorance and secrecy.”
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Tom Otterness, Poster for the Dedication of The Real World, Battery Park City, 1992
Tom Otterness, The Real World in Battery Park City, Framed Poster, 1992. Poster Size: 24 x 18 inches; 27 x 21 inches (Framed) — For Sale
Tom Otterness is one of today’s top public sculptors, famous for amusing, vaguely-politicized narratives made with small cartoon-like figures. He is best known for Life Underground in the 14th St. / 8th Avenue subway station. The Real World is an earlier work, located in Battery Park City near Stuyvesant High School. This is the work that marked Otterness’s breakthrough as a public sculptor. Instead of making a single large monument, he created a multi-part sculpture consisting of many small bronzes scattered strategically around the grounds. This rare poster, printed on thin fragile paper, comes protected in a custom frame.
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Irving Penn, Poster for Issey Miyake, 1994
Irving Penn (Photographer), Issey Miyake, Poster, 1994. Size: 40.5 x 29 inches — For Sale
Issey Miyake’s collaboration with Irving Penn was notable in that Miyake allowed Penn complete freedom in photographing his garments. According to Aperture, Penn “essentialized Miyake’s structural garments, giving them graphic clarity while turning clothing into living sculpture.” This acclaimed series of photos was later collected in a book, and many can now be found in museum collections.
Gallery 98 has four of these Penn & Miyake posters
Original Apple iPod Promotional Bus Shelter Poster, 2007
iPod, Bus Stop Poster printed on durable plastic-coated paper, designed by TBWA\Chiat\Day, 2007. Size: 50 x 26 inches — For Sale
This large bus-stop-sized poster promoting Apple’s iconic iPod is now considered a design classic. The “dancing silhouettes” were created by Apple’s longtime ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day, and were used in an award-winning 2003 – 2008 campaign. As one critic noted, the ads were “so iconic they require no copy more than the Apple iPod logo, we get to enjoy the art. Art that makes a bus shelter or bare wall come alive. Art that makes you smile.”
Alex Katz, Commemorative Poster for Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 125th Anniversary Season, 1986/87
Alex Katz, Commemorative Poster for Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 125th Anniversary Season, Signed and Numbered 3/100, Framed Poster, 1986. Size: 59.5 x 32 inches — For Sale
In the 1980s the Brooklyn Academy of Music began commissioning top-tier contemporary visual artists to design limited-edition posters. Their goal was to create a bridge between the avant-garde art world and the experimental performance artists who were part of their yearly Next Wave Festival. This signed and numbered poster by Alex Katz is striking because of its large dimensions. For the last 40-years it has been protected by a frame, which may now need to be replaced.
