THE GIFT
This project inspired by Lewis Hyde’s book The Gift lifts art out of the commodity cycle and offers small paintings for free to whoever finds them. These small works reference art history and are in dialogue with their sites.
After A Woman Bathing in A Stream by Rembrandt van Rijn (1654) placed on the side of a laundromat in San Francisco, USA (2020)
After Self Portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn (1629) placed on a bench in the Shakespeare Garden, San Francisco, USA (2020)
After The Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1884) placed at the shuttered Fireside Bar in San Francisco, U.S.A. (2020)
After L’Asperge by Edouard Manet (1880) placed outside a shuttered grocery store in San Francisco, USA (2020)
After The Roman Campagne With the Claudian Aqueduct by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (c 1826), placed in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, USA (2020)