Ephemera is on view at Wrong Answer, May 11 - August 9 by appointment.

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Ephemera presents the work of 3 artists, created between 2020 and 2024. It’s a show exploring the influence and importance of ephemeral material in culture and the intrinsically ephemeral nature of cultural objects. 

Tyrrell Winston’s diverse and far-reaching body of work spans Dada, appropriation, sport, fashion, and culture. All with impressive depth and velocity. Winston is also the first artist to collaborate with PSA, the premier authentication and grading company for sports cards and autographs. The work featured here includes ephemera and material from Winston’s studio -  receipts, small sketches, hotel letterhead, etc. These pieces are biographical, highlighting the role of sports history in Winston’s practice as well as the intimacy of the artist’s studio, underlining the importance of (often overlooked) ephemera in artists’ practices.

Niall McClelland’s early work includes roughly treated, poster-sized sheaths of paper overloaded with black toner, folded and unfolded obsessively over years, revealing constellations of white lines from cracked ink. This work nodded as much to photocopied ephemera found in a pocket after a night out, than to somber minimalist monochromes.

McClelland’s new work shares that same rawness - oil mixed with sand, roughly painted over stretched burlap. It’s no surprise that McClelland refers frequently to the object nature of these paintings, their materiality, wear, and scale are critical to experiencing them

Similarly, Brian Rideout’s three canvases deal with the history of an object, Michelangelo’s Madonna della Pietà (1498-99). From the Carrara marble quarry where the stone was mined (still functional today) to its eventual attack and damage with a geologists hammer - Rideout tells the story of the object through images that only exist after the fact. Through these paintings Rideout examines the changing narratives an art object experiences over its lifetime.

Ephemera is on view at Wrong Answer, May 11 - August 9 by appointment. Post-war ephemera and printed material related to radical architecture, design, conceptual art, and culture in general will also be available.

Studio space is open for visits Saturday + Sunday by appointment. RSVP here.