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Text Drawings: David Shrigley

Past exhibition
March 9 - April 3, 2021
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David Shrigley Untitled (Don't Blame The Idiots), 2019 Japanese ink on paper Paper dimensions: 29 15/16 x 22 1/16 inches (75 x 56 cm) Framed dimensions: 33 1/4 x 25 3/8 inches (84.3 x 64.3 cm)
David Shrigley
Untitled (Don't Blame The Idiots), 2019
Japanese ink on paper
Paper dimensions:
29 15/16 x 22 1/16 inches
(75 x 56 cm)
Framed dimensions:
33 1/4 x 25 3/8 inches
(84.3 x 64.3 cm)

Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present a recent group of Japanese ink drawings by David Shrigley. Each of the twenty works, rendered in brushy black all-caps lettering against a neutral background, delivers a message from the artist. Similar to Shrigley's well-known Signs and News series, the text drawings are formatted to harness the immediacy of public signage and newsstand headlines. Declarative missives such as Fuck Is A Word I Use Often; The Works Make Themselves / The Works Don't Make Themselves; and Don't Blame The Idiots, Blame The Non-Idiots visually arrest the viewer's attention, offering messages that alternate between the mundane, paradoxical, and profound.

List of Works
Installation Views
  • Installation view of David Shrigley's exhibition in the third floor viewing room of his ink text drawings.
  • Installation view of David Shrigley's exhibition, featuring three of his ink drawings. Three drawings featured here.
  • Installation view of David Shrigley's exhibition "Text Drawings," featuring a few of the artist's declarative messages.
Works
  • David Shrigley Untitled (Don't Blame The Idiots), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (Don't Blame The Idiots), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (Very Brief Moments), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (Very Brief Moments), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (A Census of All Living Things), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (A Census of All Living Things), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (Fuck Is A Word), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (Fuck Is A Word), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (Look At Yourself), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (Look At Yourself), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (Draw Circles), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (Draw Circles), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (Words As Swords), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (Words As Swords), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (I Did Not Mean To Be Rude), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (I Did Not Mean To Be Rude), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (Loitering Around The Ruins), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (Loitering Around The Ruins), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (God Is Not Dead), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (God Is Not Dead), 2019
  • David Shrigley Untitled (This Is Everything), 2019
    David Shrigley
    Untitled (This Is Everything), 2019
Publications
  • David Shrigley

    David Shrigley

    Text Drawings 2021
    Softcover 44 pages
    Publisher: Anton Kern Gallery, New York
    Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.5 inches
    Read more

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