Staff Favorites: "Some Narrow Views: (Either Tall or Wide)" by John Baldessari
John Baldessari, Some Narrow Views: (Either Tall or Wide), 2004 (as installed at Blue Sky), from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation.
While Blue Sky is temporarily closed to the public, members of our staff will be sharing some of their favorite pieces by John Baldessari as a way to provide more virtual access to our current exhibition, Master of Appropriation. Exhibitions Intern Yuyang Zhang picks his favorite piece on view, Some Narrow Views: (Either Tall or Wide):
"Unlike Baldessari’s other works that place unrelated captions beneath images to create loose narratives, Some Narrow Views (Either Tall or Wide) conveys a more directive connotation where texts serve as expirations to the photos. However, the cropped out images still give me feelings that there is a lot of information being left out in this narrow format. This mixture sense of familiarity and unfamiliarity is why I like it a lot."
-Yuyang
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Some additional links for further investigation:
Here is a link to the portfolio on MoMA’s website, where you can see all ten prints individually and up-close.
Here is another link to an alternative installation view on Krakow Witkin Gallery’s website.
Watch this video to quickly learn about John Baldessari and his art adventure.