Rachel Lachowicz / Yoko Ono — Shoshana Wayne Gallery, 1996

Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, 1996
Original exhibition announcement card
15 × 10 cm
Offset print on cream card stock; printed recto, blank verso
Main Gallery: Rachel Lachowicz
West Gallery: Yoko Ono — Wishing Tree
Exhibition dates: April 13 – May 18, 1996
Opening reception: Saturday, April 13, 5–8 PM

Condition: Very good. Light age toning, minor handling marks and faint edge/corner wear consistent with period gallery ephemera.

Original 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 Wishing Tree in the West Gallery. The Santa Monica presentation is noted as the first exhibited version of Ono’s Wishing Tree, making this a modest but significant document in the early public history of one of her central participatory works.

The 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 Wishing Tree extended her long-standing instruction-based practice into a social, participatory structure: the viewer’s written wish became part of the work.

The card itself remains spare and administrative: centred type, cream stock, no image, blank reverse. It does not reproduce the artwork. It marks its placement.

A small printed support for feminist critique, Fluxus afterlife, and participatory instruction entering 1990s gallery circulation.

Shipping and handling included in the listed price. Ships protected in archival sleeve with rigid backing.