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Charles Ray — Chicken, The New Beetle, Father Figure — Exhibition Postcard, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2007

Charles Ray — Chicken, The New Beetle, Father Figure — Exhibition Postcard, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2007

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Matthew Marks Gallery
Place & year
New York, 2007
Type
Postcard
Format
Announcement card; offset print on card, green recto with black text, black verso with silver-grey gallery details
Size
13.5 × 11.5 cm
Condition
Very good; light handling wear and minor surface marks.
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TNR-2026-0177 · 10 June 2026
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Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
November 14, 2007 – January 19, 2008

Exhibition announcement card for Charles Ray at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. The exhibition presented three sculptures: Chicken, The New Beetle, and Father Figure, and was Ray’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1998.

Ray’s sculpture often moves between toy, body, scale, realism, and industrial fabrication. In this exhibition, a small hatching chicken, a nude child with a toy car, and a monumental toy tractor became a compact grammar of childhood, objecthood, and sculptural enlargement. Father Figure alone was made in painted steel and measured 238 × 349 × 182 cm.

A small gallery support for a major Ray exhibition. Printed matter reduced to title, date, address, and surface. The postcard holds the exhibition as a compressed administrative object.

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