
installation view at Galerie Lange + Pult in Zürich raw oil paint on sewn canvas tarpaulins each 36" x 36 inches / 91,5cm x 91,5cm
Made In New York
For the first solo exhibition ("Made In New York" at Cable Gallery), the brand-new plexiglas wall works were divided into departments —Kodaks, Cliniques, Rubics, Household Sciences, and the Palladiums. The medium stressed an alternative to regular art suppliers, Canal Street Plastics and Kaminstein's Hardware were the go-to's. The products were purchased by and photographed by the artist personally in a hands-on approach. The photo surfaces were left bare similar to the experience of magazine pages and posted advertising, and the photographs themselves sliced into portions. The Kodaks explored re-photography and the notion of transparency. The Estee Lauders were positioned as a Macy's product, and the branding of Clinique products hijacked in a cross-promotion of competitor's perfumes and colognes. The Palladiums (titled after a must-go-to mega-nightclub of that period) in a point-of-display mode paired automobile headlights with seductively shiney new CD's (a new audio media at that time). The Household Sciences examined domestic product developments. The op Rubics confronted the viewer with a challenge to figure-out the work.

Color photograph, compact audio disc, 2 CD cases mounted to Plexiglas 10.75" x 5.5" x .625 inches CD: The Back To The Future soundtrack

Color photograph, compact audio disc, 2 CD cases mounted to Plexiglas 10.75" x 5.5" x .625 inches CD: Loudness /Thunder In The East

Color photograph, compact audio disc, 2 CD cases mounted to Plexiglas 10.75" x 5.5" x .625 inches CD: Bruce Springstein / Born In The USA

Color photograph, compact audio disc, 2 CD cases mounted to Plexiglas 10.75" x 5.5" x .625 inches CD: Slade / Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply

Color photograph, compact audio disc, 2 CD cases mounted to Plexiglas 10.75" x 5.5" x .625 inches CD: Ratt /Invasion Of Your Privacy

Color photograph, layered Plexglas, hardware 20" x 20" x 6 inches

Installation shot of the "Re-Kodaks" at The Cable Gallery, New York.

Color Polaroid, framed and matted (w/out glass) 14" x 11" x .75 inches

photograph of an Aquafresh toothpaste pump with a tube of Dentaguard and a denture brush, cut into 6" squares and hanging in point-of-display style over Plexi strips color photograph, Plexiglas, door stoppers 30" x 20" x 4 inches / 76,2cm x 50,8cm x 10,2cm

Color photographs, Plexiglas, bicycle hooks 18" x 40" x 2 inches 46cm x 102cm x 10cm Collection: Arthur and Carol Goldberg, New York

Color photographs, Plexiglas, bicycle hooks 18" x 40" x 2 inches 46cm x 102cm x 10cm

Color photographs, Plexiglas, bicycle hooks 18" x 40" x 2 inches 46cm x 102cm x 10cm

Color photographs, Plexglas, hardware 18" x 18" x 6 inches (note that this one features a photo of a photo that had been scored with a curved fold)

Color photographs, Plexglas, hardware 18" x 18" x 6 inches

Color photographs, Plexglas, hardware 18" x 18" x 6 inches

color photograph of deodorants mounted to plexiglas strips, and hung from door handles in a manner echoing a point-of-purchase display 30" x 20" x 4 inches / 76,2cm x 50,8cm x 10,2cm

Printed with reflective silver ink, the image was of a Solo fabric softener bottle making a splash.


Review by Larry Rinder of the "Made In New York" exhibition at Cable Gallery Flash Art, Feb/March Issue, 1986

Left side view Color photograph, layered Plexglas, hardware 20" x 20" x 6 inches 51cm x 51cm x 15cm Collection: Michael Schwartz, New York

the working photograph of the purchased products

right side view color photograph, layered Plexglas, hardware 20" x 20" x 6 inches / 51cm x 51cm x 15cm collection Michael & BZ Schwartz, New York

right side view (the bottle was tampered with and filled with Windex) color photograph, layered Plexglas, hardware 20" x 20" x 6 inches / 51cm x 51cm x 15cm collection Richard Nabhan, New York

color photograph, layered Plexglas, hardware 20" x 20" x 6 inches / 51cm x 51cm x 15cm private collection

photograph of Black Flag Roach Killer Special City Formula cut into 6" squares and mounted in point-of-display style over a mirrored Plexi backboard color photograph, Plexiglas, metal hooks 20" x 30" x 4 inches / 50,8cm x 76,2cm x 10,2cm

the baseboard photo features shaving cream on a Today spermicidal sponge, and the front photo sliced into vertical strips is of Edge shaving cream on a Buff Puff facial scrubber leaking food coloring. color photographs mounted to plexiglas, and the foreground strips hung from door stoppers in a manner echoing a point-of-purchase display 30" x 20" x 4 inches / 76,2cm x 50,8cm x 10,2cm collection Alice Albert, New York