Basic Information
Title: True False
Artist(s):
Leslie Roberts
Date Created: 2019
Unframed Dimensions: 16 x 12 in.
Medium: gouache, graphite, and ink on gessoed panel
Inventory ID: Roberts-2019-01
Description
title, date, size, medium, and artist’s notes written on the back of the panel
handwritten text list of oppositions:
True/false, anxious/serene, bizarre/ordinary, positive/uncertain, digital/analog,
uptown/downtown, compliant/resistant, rough/gentle, systematic/arbitrary, orderly/disheveled,
heavy/light, friend/foe, binary/non-binary . . .
titled above the image upper left signed, titled, and dated on the back of the panel handwritten text and list of US passport regulations: Excerpt: your photographs must be / two by two inches in size / identical / taken within the last six months / showing current appearance / color or black-and-white/ full […]
signed, titled, dated, size, and medium written on the back of the panel handwritten text: Sentences preceded by “why,” from news reports, email, and other sources. Transcript: Is this happening Did I get this Aren’t people angrier Do you want this job Can’t we sleep Am I writing you Do filmmakers love van Gogh Would […]
titled above the image upper left signed, and dated on the back of the panel Handwritten text: Signs and ads read during a subway trip Excerpt: Lorimer St, Metropolitan Grand, plan ahead, I was scared silly, local, litter stops here, help point, service exit, apply now, emergency instructions, caution, this area has been baited […]
titled above the image upper left titled on the back of the panel Handwritten text: Found words and phrases preceded by “in case of,” listed alphabetically. Transcript: accident, allergic reaction, avalanche, bad weather, bee sting, bankruptcy, bad news, choking, concussion, copyright infringement, divorce, death, damage or loss, doubt, emergency, Ebola, epileptic seizure, electric shock, […]
