Martin Wong, Futura 2000 Semaphore Gallery New York, 1986

1986

Futura NYC 1988: A rare 1980s Futura 2000 illustrated & designed announcement card published on the occasion of: "Observations of an Underground Civilization" at 51X Gallery from Ma...

Robert Longo Men in the Cities: Rare original 1985 announcement card published on the occasion of: Men In The Cities from November 9 - December 7, 1985 at Brooke Alexander, Inc.; 59...

Raymond Pettibon 1993-2006: A curated set of 6 vintage Raymond Pettibon illustrated announcement cards. Medium: 6 offset printed announcement cards. 1993-2006. Dimensions ranging from: 4.125 x 5.375 inches to 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Condition: Each in good to very good overall vintage condition. Each unsigned from an edition of unknown. Published on the occasion of the following Pettibon exhibitions: - Ikon LTD./Kay Richards, 1999 - Feature 1993 - Macba 2002 - Regen Projects 2006 - Santa Monica: Museum of Modern Art 2001 - David Zwirner 1997 Further background on announcement cards: "The only way you could let people know a show was happening was through an announcement or a poster. The art world was also much smaller at the time, so if you mailed out 200 invites, you were reaching a good core of the art world." (Rosen). Raymond Pettibon is a contemporary American artist known for his stylized ink drawings combining images and text. His inventive narratives blend historical content with consumer culture to yield incisive critiques of contemporary society. “I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology,” he explained. “There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures.” Born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, AZ, the artist is self-taught, but cites drawings by William Blake, Edward Hopper, Francisco Goya, and John Sloan as instructive to his practice. Deriving inspiration from comics, cartoons, and other pop culture iconography, Pettibon began designing album covers and ephemera for his brother’s band Black Flag in the mid-1970s. He went on to produce cover art for Sonic Youth, the Minutemen, and the Foo Fighters. In 2017, the artist was the subject of the major retrospective “Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work,” held at the New Museum in New York, where he currently lives and works. Today, his works can be found in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. Related categories: Raymond Pettibon poster...

Keith Haring Pop Shop: Rare larger sized, vintage original Keith Haring 1980s Pop Shop bag designed by Haring for use at his famed New York store. A classic Keith Haring Pop Shop col...

Jeff Koons Lavishly illustrated 592 page monograph (hand signed by Jeff Koons), 2009 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed by Jeff Koons) Boldly signed and dated 12/1/14 o...

George Segal (Hand signed, dated and inscribed), 1979 Hardback monograph with dust jacket, hand signed, dated and warmly inscribed to David by George Segal Hand signed, dated and ins...

Donald Baechler ArT RANDOM Donald Baechler Japanese catalog (hand signed and inscribed to writer and art critic Anthony Haden-Guest), 1989 Hardback monograph Hand signed and inscribed to writer and art critic Anthony Haden-Guest 12 × 9 1/4 × 1/2 inches Unframed This uncommon 1989 Japanese hardback monograph with no dust jacket as issued, is hand signed and inscribed by artist Donald Baechler to the art critic Anthony Haden-Guest. Inscription reads: For Anthony 4.April. 91 Donald Baechler Book information: First edition. Published by Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin International Co., Ltd., 1989. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Paintings and drawings by Donald Baechler. Text (in English and Japanese) by Lisa Liebmann. Unpaginated (48 pp.), with 36 four-color plates. About Donald Baechler: Donald Baechler was one of the most promising artists of the 1980s. He was associated with a group of painters in New York that included Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Philip Taaffe...

Tracey Emin Angel Without You monograph (Hand signed by Tracey Emin), 2013 Hardback monograph with illustrated boards (hand signed by Tracey Emin) Boldly signed in blue ink by Tracey...