{"title":"Yoko Ono","description":"\u003cp\u003eYoko Ono (b. 1933, Tokyo) is an artist, musician, and activist whose practice spans performance, instruction, film, music, and participatory art. A central figure in Fluxus and the international avant-garde from the late 1950s, her work has consistently engaged with peace, perception, language, and the activation of the viewer. Key works include \u003cem\u003eGrapefruit\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), \u003cem\u003eCut Piece\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), and \u003cem\u003eWishing Tree\u003c\/em\u003e, first exhibited at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOno has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and major institutions internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers exhibition invitations, catalogues, and printed matter relating to Ono’s practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rachel-lachowicz-yoko-ono-shoshana-wayne-gallery-santa-monica-1996","title":"Rachel Lachowicz \/ Yoko Ono — Shoshana Wayne Gallery, 1996","description":"\u003cp\u003eShoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, 1996\u003cbr\u003eOriginal exhibition announcement card\u003cbr\u003e15 × 10 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on cream card stock; printed recto, blank verso\u003cbr\u003eMain Gallery: Rachel Lachowicz\u003cbr\u003eWest Gallery: Yoko Ono — \u003cem\u003eWishing Tree\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: April 13 – May 18, 1996\u003cbr\u003eOpening reception: Saturday, April 13, 5–8 PM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light age toning, minor handling marks and faint edge\/corner wear consistent with period gallery ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal 1996 exhibition announcement card for a two-part programme at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station: Rachel Lachowicz in the Main Gallery and Yoko Ono’s \u003cem\u003eWishing Tree\u003c\/em\u003e in the West Gallery. The Santa Monica presentation is noted as the first exhibited version of Ono’s \u003cem\u003eWishing Tree\u003c\/em\u003e, making this a modest but significant document in the early public history of one of her central participatory works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pairing records a specific mid-1990s Los Angeles moment. Lachowicz’s work was closely associated with feminist critique, reworking the authority of Minimalism and male art-historical form through cosmetics and bodily materials. Ono’s \u003cem\u003eWishing Tree\u003c\/em\u003e extended her long-standing instruction-based practice into a social, participatory structure: the viewer’s written wish became part of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe card itself remains spare and administrative: centred type, cream stock, no image, blank reverse. It does not reproduce the artwork. It marks its placement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small printed support for feminist critique, Fluxus afterlife, and participatory instruction entering 1990s gallery circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. Ships protected in archival sleeve with rigid backing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459413795154,"sku":"RL-YO-SWG-1996","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Lachowicz_Rachel_and_Ono_Yoko._Shoshana_Wayne_Gallery_invite_card._1996_front.jpg?v=1778904766"},{"product_id":"yoko-ono-dollar-piece-printed-matter-studio-one-2006","title":"Yoko Ono — Dollar Piece — Printed Matter Membership Multiple with Envelope, Studio One, New York, 2006","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinted Matter membership multiple with original envelope\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on textured paper with companion envelope\u003cbr\u003ePublished by Printed Matter, New York\u003cbr\u003e2006\u003cbr\u003eApprox. letter sheet with mailing envelope\u003cbr\u003eCondition: good vintage condition; fold lines, light handling wear, minor creasing and age-related marks to sheet and envelope; adhesive residue and opening wear to envelope present\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued in 2006 as a benefit multiple for Printed Matter, this work reactivates Yoko Ono’s \u003cem\u003eDollar Piece\u003c\/em\u003e, an instruction score first written in spring 1963 during one of the most important periods of her early conceptual practice. The text asks the reader to choose a monetary amount, imagine everything it can purchase, then imagine everything it cannot purchase, before recording the result. Like many of Ono’s early instruction works, the piece shifts the artwork away from object and toward action, imagination, and participation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original score belongs to the same moment that produced works later collected in \u003cem\u003eGrapefruit\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), a publication that helped establish Ono as a central figure within early conceptual art and Fluxus. Rather than producing fixed images, these works operate as proposals — activated mentally rather than materially.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe printed sheet carries a reproduced “Yoko Ono ’06” signature and a Studio One letterhead, while an illustration of the Dakota apartment building appears at the lower edge. The accompanying envelope extends the work into a mail format, placing it within a lineage of circulation objects and artist-distributed multiples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a New Rare inventory the object sits somewhere between correspondence, conceptual score, and fundraising support document. It proposes value while quietly undoing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53550083309906,"sku":"ONO-PM-DOLLAR-2006","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Ono_Yoko._Dollar_Piece_membership_memo_for_Printed_Matter_signed_Yoko_Ono_06._2006.jpg?v=1779605564"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/yoko-ono.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}