V, O, V, O, V, O

Thomas Downing

1979

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An 18th-century English-style portrait sags out of its frame. A broom rests on books on the floor and the bottom of the frame.
On two large panels, a black v-shape made of paint, signs, and other material appears in the center of a grey field of paint. In the top center section, a microphone is placed, its cord hanging down and connecting into a sandbox filled with cards that have word "secret" on them.
Black and white image of a room within which are visible a chair, a door, against which is propped an ironing board, and a dresser atop which are perfume bottles and a framed headshot of a woman. Upon the room's walls and ceiling is the upside-down image of the surrounding neighborhood, created by the artist by turning the room into a camera obscura.
Arch, St. Louis, Richard Estes, Published by Parasol Press Ltd., screenprint