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Stairway to Heaven

The vertical format sister to Better Living Through Chemistry. These lightboxes and posters combine clichéd graphic devices from contemporary advertisements with images of personal weaponry and paper money from various countries. Shown alongside the Better living series in Dallas, Trieste, Milan and Munich, they were also featured as posters in the Stockholm subway.

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Blue Blood, 1996
Paredes e Poder, 1996
Zabesto, 1996
Installation view, Marino
Alla Scala Art Center, Milan,
Italy, 1999
Installation view, McKinney
Avenue Contemporary Art
Center, Dallas, TX, 1997
Public Toilet Installation,
San Francisco, CA, 1997
Public Toilet Installation,
San Francisco, CA, 1997
Public Installation, Flatiron
Building, New York, 1997
Subway Installation,
Stokholm, Sweden, 1999

EXHIBITION HISTORY:

• Your Action World, Marino alla Scala Art Center, Milan, Italy, April 13 – May 31, 1999 (Solo)

• Under/Exposed, Subway Installation, Stokholm, Sweden, December 21, 1998 – January 3, 1999 (Public)

• Stairway to Heaven, Art Futura, Madrid, Spain, October 14 – 19, 1997 (Solo)

• Strange Ritual, La Foret Museum, Tokyo, Japan, April 22 – May 12, 1997 (Solo)

• Desire, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX, March 7 – April 27, 1997 (Solo)

• 5 & 10: Art For Change, Tampa, FL, July 11 – 20, 1997 (Group)

• Desire, Public Toilet Installation, San Francisco, CA, January 9 – 22, 1997 (Public)

• Kiosk & Guide, Flatiron Building, New York, NY, September 8 – 15, 1997 (Public)

• Stairway to Heaven, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, December 6, 1996 – January 6, 1997 (Solo)

• Desire, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, July 26 – October 20, 1996 (Solo)

Strange Ritual, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, June 2 – 28, 1995 (Solo)

ABOUT:

"Byrne Outside: Talking with David Byrne", Public Art Review, Spring/Summer 1998

"Talking Pictures", San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 8, 1997

• DB Essay: "Stairway to Heaven & Better Living Through Chemistry", September 1996

 

 

 



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