EDITIONS FAWBUSH
11 DECEMBER 2004 - 8 JANUARY 2005




Installation View with Breuer, Smith, De Beer, Jacobson



Installation View with McCaslin, De Beer, Sikander



Installation View with Beck, Sikander, Gordon, Tuttle, Smith, Gonzales



SUE DE BEER
Untitled (Black Guitar), 2004
Birch plywood, enamel, silkscreen, guitar strings, vinyl transfer, rubber, duct tape, hardware
44 x 13 x 3 inches
Edition of 10






WAYNE GONZALES
Gray White House, 2003; Gray White House, 2003 (reversal);
Black White House, 2003; Green White House, 2003
Silkscreen on Coventry rag paper
31 x 40 inches each
Edition of 25





SHAHZIA SIKANDER
Afloat, 2001
Silkscreen on Thai Mulberry paper, printed on both sides
35 x 25 inches
Edition of 35







ANDREA ZITTEL
Wallens, 2002
2 14 inch cast aluminum and glass tempered port lights, hardware, silkscreen, wooden crate
Installation dimensions variable; crate size 10 x 38 x 22 inches
Edition of 12




LEO VILLAREAL
Bulbox 2.0, 2002
Plexiglas, light bulbs, dimmer, microcontroller, circuitry
12 x 12 x 6 inches
Edition of 25




RICHARD TUTTLE / KIKI SMITH
Bouquet, 2001
18 karat gold, 19th century silk damask, armature wire, pinewood, hardware
8 x 9 x 5 inches
Edition of 18




TONY MATELLI
Constant Consciousness, 2004
Painted cast brass
9 elements, 2 x x inches each (approximately)
Edition of 10







Sandra Gering Gallery is pleased to present a selection of work from Editions Fawbush, one of the foremost publishers of artists’ prints and multiples since 1997. The installation will include works by Robert Beck, Marco Breuer, Wayne Gonzales, Tony Matelli, Matthew McCaslin, Shahzia Sikander, Richard Tuttle, Leo Villareal, Andrea Zittel and others.

Sculptural editions featured in the exhibition will range from Tony Matelli’s Constant Consciousness, a life-size, realistically cast painted brass sculpture of several stamped-out cigarette butts, to Sue De Beer’s Mr. Kitty (tiger version), a giant, plush stuffed animal sculpture — two of Editions Fawbush’s most recent publications.

Among the prints included in the exhibition will be Afloat, a screenprint by Shahzia Sikander (currently on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, NY); W/G/B, a series of unique monotypes by Marco Breuer; and Kiki Smith’s How I Know I’m Here, a 14’ long frieze-like linocut, created in 1985 but not editioned until 2000. Editions Fawbush founders Thomas Jones and Russell Calabrese named the company after Joe Fawbush, influential gallery owner and publisher. One of the earliest projects by Joe Fawbush was Kiki Smith’s first print, Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law, 1985, the same year How I Know I’m Here was created.

Over the past eight years, Editions Fawbush has been privileged to work with a growing list of established artists, including Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero, Jack Pierson, Sol LeWitt and Jim Hodges. Many younger artists, whose artistic lineage embraces elements of Conceptual and Minimal Art, compliment this group. Through an aggressive and ambitious program, Editions Fawbush has collaborated with artists to explore materials or ideas which, whether core to their discipline or tangential to their practice, have led them to new and challenging works.

Editions Fawbush projects are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Denver Art Museum, among many other public and private collections. Recent institutions to exhibit their projects include the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Barbican Centre, London, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Moderne Museet, Stockholm, and Kunst Werke, Berlin. Forthcoming exhibits include the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY.