This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A black and white image of a woman with long wavy hair standing with her arms raised and her hands spread. She is standing over a chest high cylinder which has holes punched out, and it appears as if she is illuminated by something in the cylinder.

Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris 1938: An Homage

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Ubu Gallery presented a retrospective view of the landmark Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, which premiered at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris (January 1938). The 1938 exhibition was the culminating avant-garde celebration in Europe before the devastating events leading to World War II. Included at Ubu Gallery were representative works by the major participants, photographs of the decorated mannequins, the installation …

Joseph Beuys: Signed Posters + Multiples

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An artist, teacher, and advocate for his many causes, Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) is considered not only the most charismatic figure of postwar German art, but also a radical pioneer of contemporary sculpture. Through his innovative art and involvement in successive social movements Beuys expressed his deep belief in society’s need for creativity to penetrate and mold its social and political …

Interventions: Four Approaches to Contemporary Photography

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This exhibition presented four contemporary artists who “intervene” in the traditional notion of the photographic process. In doing so, the artists addressed a variety of issues, including those relating to the tension between appropriation and originality; photography and the so-called “fine arts”—painting and sculpture; the hand-made and the reproduction; as well as documentation and decoration. ARTISTS Gary Brotmeyer, Carl Goldhagen, …

A photograph of a mint green case, which is opened to reveal shelves. The case also contains framed works and several small objects.

The Box: From Duchamp to Horn

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Ubu Gallery presented a selection of artists’ boxes in a variety of manifestations and approaches. Through this exhibition the artists provided a means to express “the box” as a container of objects (as in Marcel Duchamp’s Boite en Valise); as a personal world (Joseph Cornell); as an entity of aggression and danger (Lucas Samaras); as an aesthetic object addressing the …

Black and white image of a stone doorway arch, above which sits a bust of a male figure. Beneath the bust and archway hangs a winged angel which holds a banner reading “MATERIALISTA.”

Jindřich Štyrský: On the Needles of These Days. Photographs, 1934–1935

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This — the inaugural exhibition of Ubu Gallery — consisted of a rare group of photographs by the Czech avant-garde artist, Jindřich Štyrský (1899–1942). These photographs were the basis for the artist’s surrealist masterpiece, On the Needles of These Days, published clandestinely in 1941 with original photographs and more widely in 1945 with gravure reproductions. The photographs in this exhibition …