ALTERED EGOS with Limited Edition Portfolio (containing nine plates each signed by the artists).
Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1994.
Limited edition. Softcover. Near fine. Item #52415
ISBN: 9780962494123
Exhibition catalogue: Small quarto. 103pp. with over 30 color, b/w and duotone Illustrations, nine of which are folding "Artist's Folio Pages" plus a traditional black portfolio with ties, 18 x 14.5", containing a table of contents and signed copies of the "Artist's Folio Pages." Artists featured are Vernon Fisher, Maxine Henryson and Hunter Reynolds, Komar and Melamid, Charles Bon, Annabel Livermore, Theresa Pendlebury, Brian Tucker, Jan Tumlir and Kevin Sullivan, Millie Wilson. Portfolio was limited to only 90 copies.
"Altered Egos was a group exhibition of artists who produce art under assumed names and multiple authorship, or those who choose to explore hidden identities. Rather than simply employing a pseudonym, these artists consciously construct an alter ego or appropriate the life and art of another to create a new body (or bodies) of work that is distinct from their other artistic production. While their reasons for assuming alter egos and their respective modus operandi differ, an important aspect of Altered Egos is how the artists reject the notion of single authorship and signature style, as they redefine, represent, and reconstruct themselves."- institute of contemporary art.
Price: $350.00