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Peter Downsbrough

SELECTED WORKS
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)

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

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)

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

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

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RE/SET
2016
Bars: painted rectangular metal tube (1 1/4 x 1/4 inches each)

Text:  painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
40 x 40 inches  (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #28092)

NYC
1978
Set of five silver gelatin photographs

Image size: 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches each (20 x 30.2 cm each)
Paper size: 9 11/16 x 13 5/16 inches each (24.6 x 33.8 cm each)
Mat size: 12 5/8 x 16 5/8 inches each (32.1 x 42.2 cm each)
Edition of 4
Signed, dated and titled on reverse on each sheet
(Inventory #27714)

PLACE, THEN
2016
One pipe and two words:

Pipe:  painted metal pipe (1/2 inch diameter)
Text:  painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
Installation dimensions variable
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #28261)

Two Lines (diptych)
1972
Ink on Efficiency Line No. 997 paper in two parts

Image/paper size: 11 x 8 9/16 inches each (27.9 x 21.7cm each)
Signed and dated on reverse on each sheet
(Inventory #26889)

26.04.2016, Two Pipes, random
2016
Painted metal tube (1/2 inch [1.3 cm] diameter)

Each unit is 39 3/8 inches (1 meter) tall
Installation dimensions variable
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #28262)

Boston
2006
Black & white photograph

Image/paper size:  59 x 88 1/2 inches  (149.9 x 224.8 cm)
(Inventory #23966)

Bruxelles
2006
Black & white photograph

Image/paper size:  59 x 88 1/2 inches  (149.9 x 224.8 cm)
(Inventory #23965)

Untitled, London
1978
Triptych, silver gelatin photographs

Image size: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches each (14.8 x 22.2 cm each)
Overall frame size: 17 3/4 x 35 1/2 inches (45 x 90 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #25139)

Untitled, Bruxelles
1980
Diptych, silver gelatin photographs

Image size: 4 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches each (10.8 x 16.2 cm each)
Overall frame size: 15 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches (40 x 60 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #25136)

Untitled, New York City
1978
Diptych, silver gelatin photographs

Image size: 4 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches each (10.8 x 16.2 cm each)
Overall frame size: 15 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches (40 x 60 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #25135)

As, If, Or, To
1995
Set of four silkscreened solid wooden blocks

Edition of 12
Each: 11.81 x 1.97 x 1.97 inches
Installation dimensions variable
Stamped and numbered on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #17628)

OR
1987
Ink and tranfser letters on paper

Signed and dated on back
Image/paper size:  11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches  (29.5 x 21 cm)
(Inventory #18860)

Untitled (International New York Times, Monday, April 6, 2015)
2015
Newspaper clippings with painted wood on A3 Bristol

Image size:  5 15/16 x 9 1/16 inches  (15.1 x 23 cm)
Paper size:  11 3/4 x 16 5/8 inches  (29.8 x 42.2 cm)
Signed, dated and titled on reverse
(Inventory #27718)

Untitled, Gent
2006
Silver gelatin photograph

Image size: 10 5/16 x 15 7/16 inches (26.2 x 39.2 cm)
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Frame size: 24 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches (61.3 x 51.4 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #19676)

Untitled, New York City
1978
Silver gelatin photograph

Image size: 10 1/16 x 15 inches (25.6 x 38.1 cm)
Paper size: 12 x 15 7/8 inches (30.5 x 40.3 cm)
Frame size: 24 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches (61.3 x 51.4 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #19659)

Untitled, New York City
1978
Silver gelatin photograph

Image size: 10 1/4 x 15 5/16 inches (26 x 38.9 cm)
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.3 cm)
Frame size: 24 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches (61.3 x 51.4 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, and titled on reverse
(Inventory #19660)

HERE
2009
Black tape, black self-adhesive letters and 1/2" pipe painted black

Edition of 9
Stamped and dated on an accompanying certificate
40 x 11 1/4 x 1/2 inches  (101.6 x 28.6 x 1.3 cm)
(Inventory #20702)

PLACE / AS, OR, TO, IF
1990
Wooden box, silkscreened containing a printed sheet and a set of five solid wooden blocks painted and silkscreened

Edition of 40
Signed and numbered with stamp
Block size:  7 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 inches each (18 x 3 x 3 cm each)
Box size:  10 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (26.3 x 4 x 39 cm)
(Inventory #23641)

NEXT, NEXT
2007
Inkjet print on paper

Image/paper size: 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm)
Signed and dated on back
(Inventory #18867)

Berlin, 2007
2014
Silver gelatin photograph

Image size:  6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches  (16.2 x 24.1 cm)
Paper size:  8 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches  (20.6 x 27.3 cm)
Frame size:  14 1/4 x 17 inches  (36.2 x 43.2 cm)
Signed, titled and dated on reverse
(Inventory #28154)

Berlin, 2015
2015
Silver gelatin photograph

Image size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches (16 x 24 cm)
Paper size: 8 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches (20.6 x 27.3 cm)
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 inches (36.2 x 43.2 cm)
Edition of 5
Signed, titled and dated on reverse
(Inventory #29136)

Bruxelles, 2003
2014
Silver gelatin photograph

Image size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches (16 x 24 cm)
Paper size: 8 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches (20.6 x 27.3 cm)
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 inches (36.2 x 43.2 cm)
Edition of 5
Signed, titled and dated on reverse
(Inventory #28159)

NOW
1991
Silkscreen on cardboard in four parts

Image/paper size:  17 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches each  (45.1 x 45.1 cm each)
Overall size:  36 x 36 inches  (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Edition of 5
Signed, numbered and dated on accompanied certificate
(Inventory #27712)

PLACE, THE
2009
nkjet on A3 paper

Image/paper size:  16 1/2 x 11 5/8  (42 x 29.5 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil verso
(Inventory #21552)

EACH
2009
Inkjet on monochrom paper

Image/paper size:  7 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches  (20 x 20 cm)
(Inventory #21643)

 

 

OPEN
2009
Inkjet on monochrom paper

Image/paper size:  7 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches  (20 x 20 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil verso
(Inventory #21641)

THE
2013
Bars: painted rectangular metal tube Text: painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)

Text: painted metal plate (1/4 inch thick)
Wooden case with screenprint
Edition of 20
Signed, numbered, titled and dated on accompanying certificate
THE size: 2 3/8 x 15 5/8 x 1 inches (6 x 39.7 x 2.5 cm)
Wooden case size: 4 x 27 1/8 x 4 inches each (10.2 x 68.9 x 10.2 cm each)
(Inventory #25516)

AS AS
1995
Two woodblocks

8 1/4 x 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 inches each  (21 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm)
(Inventory #19886)

THE THEN
2018
Ink on paper, painted wood in and all made on matchbox

Installation size varies
Closed size:  2 5/8 x 4 3/4 x 1 inches  (6.7 x 12.1 x 2.5 cm)
Fully opened size:  2 5/8 x 9 x 1 inches  (6.7 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm)
Edition of 15
Signed and dated on reverse in graphite
(Inventory #29452)

Exhibition View
Public Commission
2006
Private Commission
2006
Southern France
Additional Information

Peter Downsbrough has developed a strongly reduced visual vocabulary, which he uses to investigate the given space in a very personal and precise way. His material consists of letters and lines. He uses adhesive letters, forming conjunctions, prepositions, verbs and/or nouns and applies them to the walls, floors and/or ceilings. Lines, for which he uses cloth tape, emphasize certain architectural elements. Metal pipes, in the space and sometimes on the wall, accentuate the space. Areas defined by lines or painted black sometimes play a role, and, with the lines and the words reveal the architecture of interior or exterior spaces.

This rigorous treatment of the space continues in Peter Downsbrough’s books, maquettes, photographs, videos or prints. They all reveal an extreme coherence, which some situate in the minimal and conceptual art movements. In the course of time, the spatial interventions with the parallel vertical pipes or dowels have been complemented with words, lines and planes. Conjunctions such as AS, IF, BUT, FROM, MAAR, OP, EN, ET, OU, MAIS… have a double function: they work as iconographic signs which underline and reveal the space, and they offer the viewer the possibility to go, in his/her mind, from one thought to the other. For a conjunction is a word that can’t be declined or conjugated; it establishes a connection between sentences or parts of sentences.

Peter Downsbrough: With the word, one takes part in a dialogue, a discourse on its precise meaning. The word for me is an object. It has both a precise and a vague meaning. It is a universe one is confronted with. But there is no obligatory way of reading.

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Annual AIDS Benefit 2022 (Online Only)

November 26, 2022
- December 4, 2022

Works are first and only made visible on the website on Saturday, November 26th at 10am.  All proceeds to benefit The Dimock Center’s Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS Program.

ALL WORKS HAVE SOLD, THANK YOU AND CONGRATS TO ALL !

Annual AIDS Benefit 2021 (online only)

November 27, 2021
- December 4, 2021

Works are first and only made visible on the website on Saturday, November 27th at 10am.  All proceeds to benefit The Dimock Center’s Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS Program

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fair Spring 2021 Online Edition

May 14, 2021
- May 28, 2021

Annual AIDS Benefit 2020 (online only)

November 28, 2020
- December 5, 2020

 Works are first and only made visible on the website on Saturday, November 28th at 10am.  All proceeds to benefit The Dimock Center’s Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS Program

One Wall, One Work: Peter Downsbrough

November 9, 2019
- December 21, 2019

Annual AIDS Benefit 2019

November 30, 2019
- December 4, 2019

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fine Art Print Fair, New York 2019

October 23, 2019
- October 27, 2019

Annual AIDS Benefit 2018

December 1, 2018
- December 6, 2018

Works are first made visible on the website and in the gallery on Saturday, December 1st at 10am.

All proceeds to benefit The Dimock Center’s Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS Program

Latitudes

January 6, 2018
- February 10, 2018

Featuring works by Peter Downsbrough, Bronlyn Jones, Julian Opie, and Richard Serra

Annual AIDS Benefit 2017

November 25, 2017
- November 30, 2017

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2017

October 26, 2017
- October 29, 2017

Boston Art Book Fair 2017

October 20, 2017
- October 22, 2017

Darkling

March 18, 2017
- April 22, 2017

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Peter Downsbrough, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Allan McCollum, and Richard Serra

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2017

March 1, 2017
- March 5, 2017

 

 

 

The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2016

November 26, 2016
- November 30, 2016

 

 

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2016

November 3, 2016
- November 6, 2016

Peter Downsbrough

April 29, 2016
- June 11, 2016

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2016

March 2, 2016
- March 6, 2016

Equal Dimensions

December 12, 2015
- January 30, 2016

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Richard Artschwager, Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, Peter Downsbrough, Erwin Heerich, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Allan McCollum, Giulio Paolini, Liliana Porter, Stephen Prina, Kay Rosen, Robert Ryman, and Fred Sandback

The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2015

November 28, 2015
- December 5, 2015

Reduce, Repeat, Reuse

June 13, 2015
- July 24, 2015

Featuring works by Peter Downsbrough, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Moskowitz

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2015

March 3, 2015
- March 8, 2015

 

 

One Wall, One Work:
Peter Downsbrough

November 29, 2014
- January 24, 2015

The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2014

November 29, 2014
- December 6, 2014

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2014

November 5, 2014
- November 9, 2014

Clues

December 14, 2013
- February 1, 2014

Featuring works by John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Sophie Calle, Peter Downsbrough, Hendrik Kerstens, Allan McCollum, Stephen Prina, and Lorna Simpson



The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2013

December 7, 2013
- December 11, 2013

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2013

November 6, 2013
- November 10, 2013

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2013

March 5, 2013
- March 10, 2013

The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2012

December 1, 2012
- December 8, 2012

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2012

March 7, 2012
- March 11, 2012

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2011

November 4, 2011
- November 7, 2011

Featuring works by: Sophie Calle, Peter Downsbrough, Joseph Grigely, Glenn Ligon, Sol LeWitt, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Liliana Porter, Kay Rosen, Lorna Simpson, and Kiki Smith

Surface Area

September 10, 2011
- October 15, 2011

Featuring works by Peter Downsbrough, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Kay Rosen, Robert Ryman, and James Turrell

One Wall, One Work:
Peter Downsbrough

September 10, 2011
- October 15, 2011

Morphologies

March 19, 2011
- April 26, 2011

Featuring works by Tara Donovan, Charles LeDray, Brice Marden, Julian Opie, Bill Thompson, and Ursula von Rydingsvard

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2011

March 2, 2011
- March 6, 2011

The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2010

December 11, 2010
- December 17, 2010

The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2009

November 28, 2009
- December 17, 2009

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Show 2009

November 5, 2009
- November 8, 2009

Peter Downsbrough

March 7, 2009
- April 15, 2009

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Art Fair 2008

October 30, 2008
- November 2, 2008

Art Chicago 2008 Art Fair

April 24, 2008
- April 28, 2008

Group Show II

January 27, 2007
- March 14, 2007

Featuring works by Eleanor Antin, Richard Artschwager, Mel Bochner, Sophie Calle, Peter Downsbrough, Vik Muniz, Ed Ruscha, Julian Opie, and Lawrence Weiner

The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2006

December 2, 2006
- December 19, 2006

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Art Fair 2006

October 31, 2006
- November 4, 2006

Summer Group Show

June 10, 2006
- August 2, 2006

Featuring works by Terry Albright, Chuck Close, Peter Downsbrough, Frank Egloff, Jasper Johns, Annette Lemieux, Robert Mangold, Julian Opie, Richard Serra, Kate Shepherd, Kiki Smith, Bill Thompson, Shellburne Thurber, Kara Walker, and Terry Winters

The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2005

December 3, 2005
- December 22, 2005

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Art Fair

November 2, 2005
- November 6, 2005