Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Richard Prince: Pre-Appropriation Works, 1971 - 1974. The exhibition will be on view at Specific Object from June 9 to September 10, 2010.
Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to announce the opening of Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling, 1970–1976. The exhibition will be on view at Susan Inglett Gallery from June 9 - July 23, 2010. A reception will be held on June 9, 2010 from 6 to 8 PM.
Specific Object is pleased to announce that our judges have named Orchard Spreadsheet by R.H.Quaytman the Specific Object 2009 Publication of the Year.
Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to be working with Jean-Noël Herlin to offer files from his Archive Project, a personal, egalitarian and inclusive, or in Erwin Panofsky's term, monist account of creativity in the visual and performing arts internationally from the middle of the 20th Century to the present.
Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to announce the opening 69. The exhibition will be on view at Specific Object from December 2 - 18, 2009 and resuming January 4 through January 29, 2010.
The Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, is pleased to present the work of legendary New York conceptual artist Dan Graham. Vintage Dan Graham: Projects for Publication 1966-2009 presents both artwork specifically created by Graham for periodicals and other publications and Graham's own writings on sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, art, and architecture first seen in print between 1966 and 2009. An exhibition curated by Specific Object / David Platzker. November 18 to December 20, 2009.
Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to announce the opening Peter Downsbrough : The Published Books. The exhibition will be on view at Specific Object from September 25 through November 6, 2009.
Specific Object is pleased to announce that our judges have named The Mug by Sarah Lucas and Olivier Garbay the Specific Object 2008 Publication of the Year.
Specific Object / David Platzker was pleased to present Vintage Dan Graham : Projects for Publications, 1966 - 2009. The exhibition was on view at Specific Object from June 15 - September 18, 2009.
Specific Object / David Platzker was pleased to present Lynda Benglis / Robert Morris : 1973 - 1974, an an exhibition held at Susan Inglett Gallery from June 18 - July 31, 2009.
Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to announce the opening Jonathan Monk : t-shirts. The exhibition will be on view at Specific Object from May 8 – June 12, 2009.
Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to announce the opening of Robert Barry : One Billion Colored Dots. The exhibition will be on view at Specific Object from March 30 – April 24, 2009.
Specific Object / David Platzker was pleased to present Marcel Broodthaers : A Voyage on the North Sea. The exhibition was presented at Specific Object from January 28 through March 20, 2009. In this project Specific Object presented a film screening and exhibition of Belgian Conceptual artist, Marcel Broodthaers’ (1926 - 1976) unusual hybrid of book and film, A Voyage on the North Sea (1973 - 1974).
In this exhibition Specific Object presents the continuous playing of the original, 44 minute, 33-1/3 RPM vinyl LP record which was produced as the exhibition catalogue for the show Art by Telephone, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 1 - December 14, 1969.
Exhibition held at Specific Object from June 16 though October 3, 2008. Between the years 1978 and 1986 Raymond Pettibon [a.k.a. Raymond Pettibone; St. Pettibone; Chuck Higby; Ray Dylan; Raymond Ginn] produced an aggressive trove of graphic works for the seminal Southern California punk band Black Flag as well as for Red Cross, The Minutemen, Nig Heist, and others. Published predominately by SST Records -- which was founded by Pettibon's brother and Black Flag guitarist, Greg Ginn -- the exhibition features over two hundred gig flyers, artists' books, album covers, posters, T-shirts, stickers, skateboard decks, and the first five editioned prints by Pettibon. A PDF of the complete exhibition checklist is available at: www.specificobject.com/projects/pettibon/Pettibon-Checklist.PDF
Please note that the checklist is 50 pages, 7.8 MB, and may take a few minutes to load.
Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to announce a call for entries for the Specific Object Publication of the Year Award. Since 2004, Specific Object has annually selected a Specific Object Publication of the Year. Winners of the Award receive a cash prize of $500 and the title of Specific Object Publication of the Year.
Specific Object is pleased to announce that our judges have named Esopus magazine, edited by Tod Lippy, the Specific Object 2007 Publication of the Year.
Specific Object is pleased to announce that it has named 0 TO 9 : Limited Facsimile Edition, edited by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer, the Specific Object 2006 Publication of the Year.
Specific Object presents an exhibition of READ Edition, a fundraising print portfolio published by the Emily Carr Institute Press Press [ECI Press] of Vancouver, Canada. Curated by Christoph Keller and Kathy Slade, the portfolio features works by Fiona Banner, Dan Graham, Brian Jungen, Myfanwy MacLeod, Jonathan Monk, Shannon Oksanen, Peter Piller, Frances Stark, Michael Stevenson, and Ron Terada, from March 28 through April 20, 2007.
Specific Object in conjunction with Susan Inglett Gallery presented an exhibition featuring Marcel Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise, Series A, Number O/XX for Kay Boyle from April 22 to May 22, 2004.
David Platzker, proprietor of Specific Object, and Barbara Moore, proprietor of Bound & Unbound, are pleased to announce that Specific Object has acquired the inventory of Bound & Unbound. [Press Release: November 4, 2004]
![image from [St.] Raymond Pettibon[e] : 1978 - 1986](/projects/pettibon/Pettibon-Release.jpg "image from [St.] Raymond Pettibon[e] : 1978 - 1986")
