Young Americans 2: Part Two — Exhibition Catalogue, The Saatchi Gallery, London, 1998

Exhibition catalogue / folded announcement
The Saatchi Gallery, 98A Boundary Road, London NW8 0RH
Offset print on folded lightweight stock
10 September – 22 November 1998

Rare folded exhibition announcement for Young Americans 2: Part Two, held at The Saatchi Gallery, London, 1998. Features an early institutional grouping of artists who would become central to the language of late-1990s and early-2000s contemporary art: Michael Ashkin, John Currin, Tom Friedman, Martin Kersels, Clay Ketter, Robin Lowe, Josiah McElheny, Sarah Morris, Laura Owens, Elizabeth Peyton, Monique Prieto, Brian Tolle, Sue Williams, and Lisa Yuskavage.

Produced at a moment before many of these practices fully stabilised into museum and auction canon, the document functions as both exhibition support and historical index: a temporary administrative object that now reads retrospectively as an accidental inventory of emerging contemporary art mythology.

More than a checklist, the object records a transitional moment when contemporary painting, conceptual installation, abject figuration, and post-minimal sculpture briefly occupied the same institutional framework before market and historical positions became fixed.

Condition: Good vintage condition. Light edge wear, handling marks, soft creasing, surface rubbing, and age toning throughout. Minor signs of storage and circulation consistent with late-1990s gallery ephemera.

A gallery handout retained long enough to become artifact.

Shipping and handling included.