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Pink plastic spiral bound book opened to show two postcards. The left postcard is flipped to show handwritten cursive text and the other postcard has a photo of a missing cat flyer attached to a wooden telephone pole.

Run Away Cats

Chantal Zakari, 2021.
 
16 postcards spiral bound together with an acrylic laser cut cover. The book contains photos of missing cat flyers (and 1 dog) complete with handwritten messages from vintage postcards.                                                                                                                       

Dozens of postcards spread out in a semi-circle shape. Each postcard contains an image with a body of text underneath.

My All

Sophie Calle, 2015.
 
Over the past thirty years, Sophie Calle has orchestrated small moments of life, establishing a game, then settings its rules, for herself and for others, while blurring the boundary between art and life. This set of fifty postcards brings together her best known works.

An opened box with both sides holding postcards, the lid containing face-down postcards revealing the back side. The right side of the box contains a postcard with an image of a shirtless man standing with one left propped up so his foot is pressing into the side of his knee.

Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe, between 1989 and 2007.
 
A set up 25 black and white photograph postcards by famous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.                                                                                                                                                                                            

Reproductions of Roth's paintings in the form of postcards, with two per page. On the left page is the backside of two postcards from the previous page, and on the right page are two colorful, abstract paintings.

96 Piccadillies

Dieter Roth, 1977.
In the late 1960s, Rita Donagh gave Dieter Roth a postcard of London’s famous Piccadilly Circus. Roth enlarged and reproduced the image, then transformed it through various interventions. 96 Piccadillies reproduces the artist’s paintings on postcards picturing the same landmark.


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