Tomma Abts — Exhibition Invitation, David Zwirner, New York, 2014

Exhibition invitation card
David Zwirner, 519 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
10 September – 25 October 2014

Offset-printed square card; colour image detail to recto; exhibition text to verso
20.5 × 20.5 cm

Condition: very good; light surface rubbing, faint handling marks, minor age toning.

Original invitation card issued for Tomma Abts at David Zwirner, New York. The card reproduces a detail from Untitled, 2013 — colored pencil and pencil on paper, 33¼ × 23⅞ inches — compressing Abts’s precise spatial constructions into a portable printed support.

Issued during a significant mid-career moment following Abts’s 2006 Turner Prize win, and concurrent with her Mainly Drawings presentation at the Aspen Art Museum. The object sits between gallery announcement and reduced exhibition fragment: drawing translated into crop, crop translated into circulation material.

Typical of David Zwirner’s restrained printed matter from the period — minimal typography, generous white space, administrative clarity. A retained document from the circulation system surrounding contemporary abstraction in the 2010s.

Shipping and handling included.