"A Large Anonymous Artwork" Exhibition
Specific Object
This event has ended.
On the morning of May 14, 2011 I encountered this artwork outside my apartment. At the time it struck me as being a humorous, ironic and ominous statement of where things were heading: on the verge of Occupy Wall Street, prior to the ramp-up of political campaigns, and at the cusp of the United States debt-ceiling debate. Early in the first week of January 2012 it felt like the right time to present it in the gallery, thus Specific Object now presents I've Seen the Future & It Doesn't Look Good.
Spray painted onto a discarded 1/8 inch thick plywood shipping crate lid, I've Seen the Future & It Doesn't Look Good measures 46 1/2 x 113 1/2 inches [108 x 208.5 cm]. The artwork either pokes a stick at Banksy's infamous rats that inhabit SoHo from time to time, comments on cheap consumer commodities sold by Crocs, or maybe it was just painted in the spirit of good fun.
Nevertheless, it's now an artwork, hanging on a gallery wall, within a white cube in Chelsea.
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Schedule
from February 09, 2012 to March 30, 2012