Peter Downsbrough | Krakow Witkin Gallery

Peter Downsbrough OR 2019 Painted steel in four parts

65 x 65 x 1.5 inches (165.1 x 165.1 x 3.8 cm)
Signed on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #30803)

Exhibited November 9, 2019 – December 21, 2019

The work of Peter Downsbrough (b. 1940, New Jersey, lives in Brussels) utilizes absence, edits, lines, space and words in architectural settings in order to further an observer’s experience of space, time and continuity. Since the 1960’s, Downsbrough’s work has meandered around, between and within architecture, Minimalism, conceptual art and visual poetry. His works take many forms, from architectural interventions to books, films, installation, multiples, prints, sculptures and more. “The word for me is an object,” he has said. For Krakow Witkin Gallery’s One Wall, One Work, Downsbrough has created “OR”, a four part sculpture that utilizes the space between and among the elements as much as the metal parts, themselves.

Over the years, he’s exhibited in numerous museums, galleries, and outdoor sites, mainly in Europe. In 2003, he was honored with a retrospective in Brussels, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts. This exhibition, curated by Marie-Thérèse Champesme, later traveled to Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux, France (2003–04), and to the Muzeum Sztuki in Lódz, Poland (2004). He has published over 100 artist books, been in over 50 museum exhibitions and is in many public and private collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Tate, London, SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Gent, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, along with more than forty other collections. The Centre national d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris has recently acquired a significant early sculpture from 1967.

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Peter Downsbrough OR 2019 Painted steel in four parts

65 x 65 x 1.5 inches (165.1 x 165.1 x 3.8 cm)
Signed on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #30803)

Exhibited November 9, 2019 – December 21, 2019

Selected Works

Peter Downsbrough BUT, BUT 2013 Bars: painted rectangular metal tube (1 1/4 x 1/4 inches each)

Text: painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #25842)

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Peter Downsbrough SET, AS (Reversed) 2009 Black paint and black self-adhesive letters

Stamped and dated on an accompanying certificate
Overall dimensions variable
(Inventory #20699)

Peter Downsbrough
Barbara Krakow Gallery, March 7, 2009 – April 15, 2009

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Peter Downsbrough AND, AS, AS, PLACE, SET, THE, THEN, TIME 2016 Wall piece: paint and vinyl on wall

Installation dimensions variable
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #28260)

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Peter Downsbrough STILL 2011 Wall piece with latex paint

Overall dimensions variable
This installation: 79 x 79 inches (200.7 x 200.7 cm)
(Inventory #23776)

First painted by: Ryan Cross, Barbara Krakow Gallery

First installation: Surface Area September 10, 2011 – October 15, 2011

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Peter Downsbrough EDGE/EDGES 2014 Bars: painted rectangular metal tube (1 1/4 x 1/4 inches each)

Text: painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
Each element: 69 x 1 1/4 x 5 inches (175 x 3.2 x 12.5 cm)
Overall size dimensions variable
This installation size: 69 x 90 inches (175.3 x 228.6 cm)
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #26898)

Exhibited: November 2014 – January 2015

OR

Selected Works

BUT, BUT

SET, AS (Reversed)

AND, AS, AS, PLACE, SET, THE, THEN, TIME

STILL

EDGE/EDGES

RE/SET

NYC

PLACE, THEN

Two Lines (diptych)

26.04.2016, Two Pipes, random

Boston

Bruxelles

Untitled, London

Untitled, Bruxelles

Untitled, New York City

As, If, Or, To

OR

Untitled (International New York Times, Monday, April 6, 2015)

Untitled, Gent

Untitled, New York City

Untitled, New York City

HERE

PLACE / AS, OR, TO, IF

NEXT, NEXT

Berlin, 2007

Berlin, 2015

Bruxelles, 2003

NOW

PLACE, THE

EACH

OPEN

THE

AS AS

THE THEN

Untitled

Exhibition View

Public Commission

Private Commission