Showing posts with label currency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label currency. Show all posts

Monday, May 16, 2011

Negative Space

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Steven Parrino: Exit/Dark Matter, 1998–1999 (41 works on paper, 3 sizes)

Scott Campbell: Untitled , 2011 (Cut uncut US currency sheets, 23 x 101 inches frame)

Raymond Pettibon: No title (Why? That Benzedrine...), 1986 (Pen and ink on paper)

All from Blankness Is Not A Void, at Marc Jancou Contemporary in New York through June 4th.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Image of the Day

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Perry Woodfin: Can Artists Really Make Money? (2010, Watercolor on paper, 24" x 32"). Up for auction February 19th as part of the Artist Trust 2011 Benefit at Seattle Center.

More of his work here.

Also, Perry is my uncle.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Welcome to the Johnson's

I found this coin in the alley by our house on the way to work yesterday.
Seems like a good excuse for a roadtrip.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Image of the Day

In 1980, an 8-year-old boy found three packages containing $5,880 in decaying $20 bills on the shore of the Columbia River – part of the $200,000 ransom D.B. Cooper was carrying when he parachuted from a plane he had hijacked en route from Portland to Seattle. Fifteen of the bills were auctioned off earlier this year by Heritage Auction Galleries.

[ From here via here ]