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James Lee Byars — A White Paper Will Blow Through The Streets
James Lee Byars

A White Paper Will Blow Through The Streets

A delicate sheet of thin laid paper serves as both medium and metaphor in James Lee Byars' offset lithograph, evoking the ephemeral and poetic nature of his conceptual practice. The work captures the transient, almost ghostly image of a white paper caught in motion, suspended between presence and absence. Byars transforms a simple, fleeting urban occurrence into a meditative object that questions the boundaries between art, language, and the everyday.

Medium
Offset lithograph, on thin laid paper, with full margins,

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April 21, 2015

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James Lee Byars, A White Paper Will Blow Through The Streets

A delicate sheet of thin laid paper serves as both medium and metaphor in James Lee Byars' offset lithograph, evoking the ephemeral and poetic nature of his conceptual practice. The work captures the transient, almost ghostly image of a white paper caught in motion, suspended between presence and absence. Byars transforms a simple, fleeting urban occurrence into a meditative object that questions the boundaries between art, language, and the everyday.

Medium
Offset lithograph, on thin laid paper, with full margins,
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Monochrome, Conceptual, Offset Lithograph, Minimalist, American, Poetic, Experimental, Text, Abstract, Contemporary

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