Claes Oldenburg & Peter Moore: New York Streets & Signs
Paula Cooper Gallery•Apr 17, 2025 — Jun 14, 2025
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Claes Oldenburg and Peter Moore both moved to New York in the mid–1950s and were immediately struck by the city’s streets, in particular the sidewalks, storefronts and signage that clamored for attention. Keenly alert to the visual assault of language and communication, Oldenburg made drawings and sculptures of storefronts, street objects and text-based posters, while Moore produced a historical record of city signage through documentary photographs. The exhibition will display key examples from these bodies of work, including pieces from Oldenburg’s legendary installations The Street (1960) and The Store (1961) that interpret the urban environment depicted in Moore’s images. Similarly attentive to witty juxtapositions of words and phrases as well as the cycle of urban transformation and capitalist expansion, Oldenburg and Moore confronted the overall theatricality of the city’s streets with equal parts mischief and grit.
Oldenburg described his obsession with the street and its…
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Claes Oldenburg & Peter Moore: New York Streets & Signs
Paula Cooper Gallery•Apr 17, 2025 — Jun 14, 2025
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Claes Oldenburg and Peter Moore both moved to New York in the mid–1950s and were immediately struck by the city’s streets, in particular the sidewalks, storefronts and signage that clamored for attention. Keenly alert to the visual assault of language and communication, Oldenburg made drawings and sculptures of storefronts, street objects and text-based posters, while Moore produced a historical record of city signage through documentary photographs. The exhibition will display key examples from these bodies of work, including pieces from Oldenburg’s legendary installations The Street (1960) and The Store (1961) that interpret the urban environment depicted in Moore’s images. Similarly attentive to witty juxtapositions of words and phrases as well as the cycle of urban transformation and capitalist expansion, Oldenburg and Moore confronted the overall theatricality of the city’s streets with equal parts mischief and grit.
Oldenburg described his obsession with the street and its…
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