1971
1 black and white xeroxed sheet + 1 typewritten sheet.
8 1/2h x 11w in (21.59h x 27.94w cm)
$ 300
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1971
1 black and white xeroxed sheet + 1 typewritten sheet.
8 1/2h x 11w in (21.59h x 27.94w cm)
$ 300
Inquire
Avery Willsgate-Smythe's “Caesura” was Fugate-Wilcox's 6th show. With this exhibition Fugate-Wilcox shifts from presenting parodies of art by his contemporaries to those directly related to his own work. Almost identical to his yet-realized proposal for San Andreas Fault Sculpture Project, from 1975, “Caesura” was a massive concrete structure that bridged the San Andreas Fault and was being gradually torn apart due to the fault's shifting tectonic plates.
The concept of caesura is captured in theimage sheet for the exhibiton with its reproduction of a photograph of mostly torn in half Manhattan telephone books stacked on a coffee table. Repetitive and with many typos, the press release reads like a manifesto for Fugate-Wilcox's own body of work. Also type-written in all caps on Hiawatha erasable bond, ivory paper.
The Jean Freeman Gallery was a conceptual project created by Terry Fugate-Wilcox as both a work of art and critique of the art world. From the summer of 1970 to March 1971, advertisements appeared in four leading art magazines—Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, and ARTnews—for a group show and six solo exhibitions at the Jean Freeman Gallery in NYC. Gallery goers soon discovered the address for the gallery did not exist. The ads, in fact, were promoting fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery.