{"product_id":"wes-mills-missoula-drawings-joseph-helman-gallery-new-york-2000","title":"Wes Mills — Missoula Drawings, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, 2000","description":"\u003cp\u003e14.5 × 14.5 cm folded \/ 14.5 × 29 cm unfolded. Offset print on folded card. Very good vintage condition with light handling, minor surface wear, gentle age toning, and slight edge wear consistent with storage and postal circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation issued for \u003cem\u003eMissoula Drawings\u003c\/em\u003e, Wes Mills, Joseph Helman Gallery, 20 West 57th Street, New York 10019, 26 January – 26 February 2000. Opening reception: Wednesday 26 January, 6 to 8 pm. Catalogue available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe front reproduces \u003cem\u003eDuchamp\u003c\/em\u003e, 1999, graphite on paper, 7⅞ × 7⅞ inches: a near-empty cream field with a single diagonal passage of dense graphite hatching entering from the lower right corner. The reverse functions as announcement: exhibition dates, reception, gallery address.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced at the beginning of a period in which Mills’ graphite drawings were gaining wider visibility, the invitation belongs to the infrastructure surrounding the exhibition rather than the exhibition itself. It records a temporary arrangement between artist, gallery, mailing list, and visitor. Its intended life was brief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe object survives after the event it announced. Detached from the gallery counter and postal system, it becomes a record of placement. The drawing circulates as reproduction; the exhibition circulates as typography; the artist circulates as a name accompanied by an address.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Helman Gallery occupied a particular position within New York’s contemporary art landscape during the 1990s and early 2000s, exhibiting artists whose practices were grounded in measured material decisions rather than spectacle. The invitation reflects that economy. Nothing exceeds its function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamples appear only occasionally on the secondary market. Printed in small numbers for distribution rather than retention, most disappeared once the exhibition concluded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph Helman Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53804487475538,"sku":"MILLS-HELMAN-INV-2000","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Mills_-Wes.-Missoula-Drawings-2000.-front_edited.jpg?v=1781969262","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/wes-mills-missoula-drawings-joseph-helman-gallery-new-york-2000","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}