EVERYTHING MUST GO!
October 15 – December 13, 2009 / Mixed Greens, New York, NY
June – July, 2009 / Incident Report, Hudson, NY
November – December, 2015 / The Last Billboard / Curated by Jon Rubin / Pittsburgh, PA
Charcoal, pastel, gouache on paper
These installations featured a cacophony of hand-drawn signs, copies of the printed versions that overwhelm the commercial landscape. Placards meant to announce a sale, liquidation or foreclosure are so commonplace as to be easily ignored no matter how brazen. Rendered in charcoal, pastel and gouache, these signs announce great but maybe catastrophic clearance events. As unique pieces, they signal the more personal repercussions of an economic collapse on store employees. When installed in the storefront space, the signs become something between actual signs and unique drawings; when installed in the windows of a Chelsea gallery, Everything Must Go! proposed that the street of exclusive galleries might just be any old row of retail shops.
